[BlueNGold]

Got to play 2 play now games of the demo at a friend's tonight and yeah, it's nothing groundbreaking and has the same look and sometimes feel of NHL 11, but I really like what they've done to the gameplay.

There's a lot of nice little touches I noticed in just 3 periods and a shootout, and my biggest complaint from last year - the AI (something I really tried to emphasize in my post in the wishlist thread), is a lot better. That alone makes the game good for me. I'd much rather they work on how the game itself plays than try to reinvent the wheel, at least for this year. Because really, the biggest thing that gives a sports game "replay value" is a well-playing, smart, and challenging but fun game. The Show is a perfect example of that. A game like that keeps me coming back to play it because I can enjoy the gameplay and get a good, fun experience out of it almost every time. And I'm not even a baseball fan.

Anyways, there still are things that aren't where they need to be. The one that sticks out most being the fact that it's too easy to enter the offensive zone. I'd like to think some slider changes will help this and hopefully that's that case because I like what I've played and wish I could play the demo more.

Really as long as there isn't any Be A Gm-killing issue and they've addressed the frustrating issue with teams mismanaging their cap to the point that really good players are left in free agency and never get signed, I think I'll be getting the game.