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Quote: Originally Posted by foxonwheels

I'm not trying to defend EA here, but I would like to give them a little tiny bit of credit. I went back and played '11 the other day, and the biggest improvement I noticed was the puck physics. I guess I didn't notice it last year, but the puck rarely bounces around in '11, and sometimes comes to a dead halt when it should clearly ricochet. The puck physics are much more fluid, but spontaneous, in '12. Hitting is also better in '12, imo. That said, there is an awful lot more that could be improved. $60 for one improvement plus some broken glass and goalie interaction is quite steep.

Agreed.
I feel like the game is getting close, but they are just making so many small tweaks that it's tough to warrant the 60.
If this season they fix how the goalies play (Coming out of the crease, the angles they take, covering pucks etc.) and how well the AI can get the puck so easily (In the corners and in front of their goalie especially) and tweak the hitting and shooting, i think the game will be pretty close to perfect.
Adding game face (so we can create better versions of ourselves, and players in game with awful models. Just look at the model for Ryan Reaves. It looks horrid.)
That would all be icing on the cake.