[bad_philanthropy]

I almost feel like this is a dream. Just think for a second what EA hockey games were just four years ago.

Now they're giving us a game that sees the primary focus of its development towards simulation hockey that comes with a huge learning curve (as far as videogames go). To have the kind of audacity to release a product like that in the era of mass-appeal marketing is a wonderful thing to see.

I understand that the degree of simulation in the game is tiered, but in the previous era, the emphasis would have been on expanding upon the game's appeal to the opposite end of the user base with gimmicky crap like bullet-time camera effects.

For a lot of us here, this is the type of sports game in general that we've been waiting for.