2K Sports Signs NHL All-Star Rick Nash to be Cover Athlete for NHL 2K9

[wurstman3000]

Quote: Originally Posted by bucs44

I think they should change announcers..

Seems like they did:
http://www.2khockey.net/forums/index...howtopic=18908
http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=505636&page=7

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by GrandMaster B

"Rebuilt from the ground up". Good, it needed it.

Translation: This game will suck but will get better in each passing year.

I'm glad they're rebuilding it though. The game still looked like it did on the Dreamcast.
And the controls need some fine tuning.

My hope is that VC stole some developers from Treyarch/Activision. NHL2K3 was the best game in it's era and they really had a good thing going before Kush took over.

I think Kush had great intentions and they made great strides in certain areas, but I still didn't 'feel' the game with them.

[savoie2006]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

Translation: This game will suck but will get better in each passing year. I'm glad they're rebuilding it though. The game still looked like it did on the Dreamcast. And the controls need some fine tuning. My hope is that VC stole some developers from Treyarch/Activision. NHL2K3 was the best game in it's era and they really had a good thing going before Kush took over. I think Kush had great intentions and they made great strides in certain areas, but I still didn't 'feel' the game with them.

Should it see the light of day,the game can be bare bones for all I care,so long as the Gameplay is more realistic and immersive than it has been.

[tabulaRasa]

Quote: Originally Posted by bucs44

Thank god VC took over..The series has gone down drastically since 2k3 and 2k4..If VC tries to bring back the realism of those games that Treyarch accomplished and ADD graphics, atmosphere with Immersion. I think they should change announcers..perhaps Pang. Treyarch was beginning to make each player perform more individually. It would be nice to have signature animations(shots, skating, dekes, hits).

That´s funny, atleast KUSH did the best version on NHL2k, that is NHL2k5. Such an awesome hockeygame, and awesome ESPN presentation and superb PBP.

NHL2k3 which treyarch did had no emotion , piss-poor presentation, stonewall lame *** goalies, odd aiming.

[FlyingFinn]

Quote: Originally Posted by tabulaRasa

That´s funny, atleast KUSH did the best version on NHL2k, that is NHL2k5. Such an awesome hockeygame, and awesome ESPN presentation and superb PBP. NHL2k3 which treyarch did had no emotion , piss-poor presentation, stonewall lame *** goalies, odd aiming.

Yeah the brick wall goalies is what made me start creating PC editors for the series. At its time, it was held and shoulders above any hockey game ever released in terms of realism and will always be in my collection.

[daflyboys]

Quote: Originally Posted by tabulaRasa

That´s funny, atleast KUSH did the best version on NHL2k, that is NHL2k5. Such an awesome hockeygame, and awesome ESPN presentation and superb PBP. NHL2k3 which treyarch did had no emotion , piss-poor presentation, stonewall lame *** goalies, odd aiming.

But it had much better AI than K5. K5 was better H v H.

[bad_philanthropy]

Hopefully this one gets a chance to be released I'm quite interested to see what VC can do. But see this is what's good about competition in sports titles. The 2k series gained ground on the EA game and become the better game and then EA was forced to fight back and did by creating their best two hockey titles to date, now 2k is forced to finally toss out the old Dreamcast engine and start new.

[aggro77]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

The game still looked like it did on the Dreamcast.

Looked, yes. If only it had played as well as 2k2 did on the Dreamcast. The cpu AI in that game was incredible. If you didn't play a solid game, if you just phoned it in, the cpu would eat you alive. I got bored with the 2k series because year after year you could use the same moves, the same strategy and own the cpu.