NHL 12 Video - Legends Trailer: Gretzky, Bourque and Chelios Revealed - 6 More Soon

[SwinginAs12]

Re: NHL 12 Video - Legends Trailer: Gretzky, Bourque and Chelios Revealed - 6 More So

For the Be A Legend mode is it is you picking a legend like Gretzky and starting as a rookie on the Oilers and going through onto the Kings and Blues and Rangers or no? I'm confused.

[Spanky]

Re: NHL 12 Video - Legends Trailer: Gretzky, Bourque and Chelios Revealed - 6 More So

Too much hype = big disappointment.

Having only 9 legends is worthless, as far as I'm concerned. They needed to have at least 40 (two teams' worth) to justify the hype.

NHL has been a great series, but I think it's hit the wall. It's maximized its capabilities on this gen's consoles and isn't going to get appreciably better or be able to add a ground-breaking feature. That's why it's so hard for EA's marketers to come up with new ideas to get you to buy basically the same game year after year.

For NHL 13, I anticipate they'll include NCAA teams as their "big, new feature.'' That's fine and dandy, but there's so little interest in college hockey that I don't anticipate it'll do much for the series.

[Pringles]

Re: NHL 12 Video - Legends Trailer: Gretzky, Bourque and Chelios Revealed - 6 More So

im sure one of them will be mario lemieux maybe steve yezerman
if mario is in the game i will put him on my pens team then trade for jaromir
lol just for the fun of it.

as for legends it is nice to have them using wayne will be a blast
would like to see more than one historic teams past stanly cup champ teams
would really get me excited

[Clarke_311]

Re: NHL 12 Video - Legends Trailer: Gretzky, Bourque and Chelios Revealed - 6 More So

This is very, very similar to what the NBA 2K franchise is doing. Obviously last year, they had Michael Jordan on the cover and implemented his ten greatest games, and allowed you to play those games with MJ. Now, this year, they have 15 of the greatest players ever where you can re-live their most definitaive games of their careers. Doesn't sound like you can play legendary games with these players in NHL 12, but the idea of having legends in the game is very similar to the 2K franchise.

Also, the "Be a Legend" mode is pretty much a carbon copy of the "MJ: Creating a Legend Mode" in NBA 2K11. When you beat all of the Jordan Challenges, you would unlock this mode, and you could be MJ in My Player (2K11's version of BAP), just like you can be one of those nine legends in BAP.

Overall, I'm very dissapointed in this "big annoncement" from EA. With them hyping this thing for months and months, saying it would (and I quote) "forever change the way you play the game", it certainely didn't live up to it's billing. Don't get me wrong, being able to put Gretzky on the Oilers and play with those young guys will be fun-I was just expecting maybe a little bit more from the production team.

[DJ]

Re: NHL 12 Video - Legends Trailer: Gretzky, Bourque and Chelios Revealed - 6 More So

This is very, very similar to what the NBA 2K franchise is doing. Obviously last year, they had Michael Jordan on the cover and implemented his ten greatest games, and allowed you to play those games with MJ. Now, this year, they have 15 of the greatest players ever where you can re-live their most definitaive games of their careers. Doesn't sound like you can play legendary games with these players in NHL 12, but the idea of having legends in the game is very similar to the 2K franchise.

Also, the "Be a Legend" mode is pretty much a carbon copy of the "MJ: Creating a Legend Mode" in NBA 2K11. When you beat all of the Jordan Challenges, you would unlock this mode, and you could be MJ in My Player (2K11's version of BAP), just like you can be one of those nine legends in BAP.

Overall, I'm very dissapointed in this "big annoncement" from EA. With them hyping this thing for months and months, saying it would (and I quote) "forever change the way you play the game", it certainely didn't live up to it's billing. Don't get me wrong, being able to put Gretzky on the Oilers and play with those young guys will be fun-I was just expecting maybe a little bit more from the production team.

It'll be interesting to see what "version" of the legends we get in the game. With Jordan in NBA 2K11, if you were to play MJ: Creating A Legend, he was based off of his 2nd year (still had hair back then), so while he was still rated pretty high, he also wasn't entering the league as the best player in the game; his 3-pt. shot was weak and his mid-range shot was spotty, while his dunk ratings were maxed out.