NHL 15 Gameplay Videos Show Off All-New Camera Angles

[bad_philanthropy]

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Dump in at 1:20 of video 1—thank heavens the physics-defying bounces are gone. Puck physics looks really good there.

[Araxen]

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Personally I think the graphics look last gen. I like the presentation but there's no intensity in the commentary at all. I'm pretty sure I'm skipping this title this year for the second straight year. No custom music(not EA's fault I know) or at least the real world goal songs for the NHL should be included in the game. Custom music is a HUGE deal for me but I would be willing to overlook it if they at least included the goal songs for every team.

Scoring goals with my Hawks without Chelsea Dagger playing isn't the same.

[The Visualizer]

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I am pretty disappointed in what I saw.

PROS
+Presentation looks incredible, they went all in on the NBC Sports integration.

CONS
-Commentary is a downgrade. They are waaaay behind the actual play and they neutered Doc Emrick. Its actually hard to listen to if you are famliar with Doc's normal over exuberance. The goal calls and good shot attempts in particular lack his signature emotion. It sounds like he rolled out of bed and recorded his lines. Super disappointing.

-Hitting and falling animations are awful. They look way worse that NHL14 where the ragdoll stuff at least looked somewhat believable on occasion. All the hits looked like canned animations from NHL07.

-Stickhandling looks ridiculous, they wasted the physic's guru as the puck is completely stuck to the stick whenever any deke is attempted, it looks awful and makes everyone look like that have the best dangles ever. No player separation in skills at all, as usual. Grinders can come down and toe drag with the best in the world without any drawbacks.

-Didn't see much improvement in the puck physics. They dumped it in the corner once or twice and the puck still bounced around a little too much. You can't really tell, because every pass was tape to tape and there were barely any deflections

-Defensive A.I. is still awful. The CPU didnt help either play much with positioning, they entered the zone at will and walked in on the goalie whenever they wanted. Hopefully this was just because the difficulty level was low...

Ill still pick the game up, hopefully it plays better than it looks and has EASHL and GM Connected

[canucksss]

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But I really want Human-CPU gameplay before I pass judgement.

You read my mind. It's hard to judge the game especially if the guy playing d just like to hit.

I can't wait to play the demo so I will know if the AI improved and the gameplay in general.

I was looking sooo forward to Doc.

But he sounds robotic. No excitment in his calls. Commentary doesn't flow at all.

Extremely disappointed. (

Well....I guess Doc is not an actor.....its hard to comment on an imaginary game instead of seeing the actual action. I can give this a "pass". Disappointed but I could let this go. The before game looks good for me though.

[Russo]

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game looks terrible. When the presentation wears off, just like it does in Madden where you start to skip intros, you're left with a graphical facelift of an outdated NHL engine. What did they really fix gameplay wise? Players sill fall like flies and the rag doll effects are absolutely brutal.

[Smirkin Dirk]

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Looks good to me.

Still feels a little end to end but they were showing highlights and we have no idea if they were sim settings.

I'd like to see a couple of things in the final copy.

1. More mistakes. Passing errors, pucks coming loose etc

2. For it to be challenge to get it in the zone. The neutral zone needs to be a thing

[Gagnon39]

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Overall, very underwhelmed.

More loose pucks? Nope. Tape-to-tape, tick-tack-toe passing all around. I'm sure it was on a low level and there were no slider tweaks but anyone that says that the gameplay looked drastically different is fooling themselves. And the jerseys? Sheesh. My worst fear from every EA title is that whatever is new is completely overdone. And once again, it seems that it is.

Look at the size of the lettering on the shot of Corey Crawford after the Blues score. It's laughable. The commentary will get very, very old. Very quickly. In fact, I missed Bill Clement and Gary Thorn before I got through both videos.

On the bright side, the NBC presentation looks amazing.

[CaptainSuperman]

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Maybe Doc's best lines are being saved for games that are like post season games? For the career modes and such.

And sliders will fix all the other stuff people are complaining about like passes and hitting. What's the big deal?

[VeryEvilAsh]

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So sick of seeing the horrible no look play. The rebound at the 1:45 mark of the first video is typical EA NHL series. Iginla's rebound magically finds it's way to Duchene's stick without him even looking the right way. He's totally facing the other way for what ever reason. They will never get that right. Still seeing the weird puck behind the player that magically knows it's back there and somehow gets his stick back there to get it.

[Gagnon39]

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Maybe Doc's best lines are being saved for games that are like post season games? For the career modes and such.

And sliders will fix all the other stuff people are complaining about like passes and hitting. What's the big deal?

I love your optimism. But as a long-time sports gamer who's literally had every copy of EA's Sports NHL title since NHLPA 93 on the Sega Genesis, I'm going to say that what we saw in the video is what we're getting. Don't get me wrong, I'm still buying it day one, and I'm sure I'll play it quite a bit. But it's not shaping up to be what I was hoping for.

[shogunofharlem3]

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So sick of seeing the horrible no look play. The rebound at the 1:45 mark of the first video is typical EA NHL series. Iginla's rebound magically finds it's way to Duchene's stick without him even looking the right way. He's totally facing the other way for what ever reason. They will never get that right. Still seeing the weird puck behind the player that magically knows it's back there and somehow gets his stick back there to get it.

We just pretty much fixed a bit that in 14. Very aggravating situation. Noticed it made its way into 15. "Destination Puck" I call it. Guys aren't in the scoring position or great defensive position, the puck finds them. Not physics, attribute based. Theory, strong theory anyway.

Hopefully sliders will loosen that puck the way we just loosened it in 14.

[stevendah]

I'm upset that it's all Xbone footage. Must mean they feel the game looks best running with Xbone. It's making me rethink which next-gen console to get...

[socalbeast08]

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wow where do i start? Ok the presentation is great i'll give it that. Gameplay however looks good in some parts but theres still a lot of work to be done. In the san jose vs toronto part, nazim kadri just skates right to the boards behind the net and stops meanwhile matt nietto is streaking through the slot and kadri does nothing to try and stop him...NOTHING! No dive, no hook, nada! where is this hockey IQ that ea is bragging about? This is ridiculous, goalies still have the same animations from 07, thats 7 years ago! Fifa just revamped goalies so why the NHL team didnt i dont know. I hate to be a negative nancy, i really do, but honestly its hard to watch this year after year and see nothing done about it. Come on EA, I see some effort but lets face it, its not 100%. Im done ranting but im a little disappointed in the effort behind this years game.

[drog1602]

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The good:
Presentation wise the game looks good.
I liked some of the multiple collisions
Was nice to see a puck deflect over the glass, but where is the netting?

The bad:
Goalies look the same
Dmen have issues turning around
Hits are too arcade
No loose pucks, and passes are all perfect
Too many soft goals from far out on soft wrist shots
No emotions in the commentators voices
Crowd noise seems lame
Way, way, way too easy to deke and the AI dmen do nothing
D still backs in

[TIm]

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I'm pretty underwhelmed by Doc.. This really has me sad. It reminds me when Madden next gen came out and the robotic announcing that game had.. I don't know what to say.. WIll I get the game Yep! However, I am pretty put off by the commentary alone. Sooo Sad