NHL 13 Demo Video - True Performance Skating Tutorial

[Steve_OS]

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Check out the True Performance Skating tutorial to get ready for the NHL 13 demo, which arrives on August 21st. It's probably fair to say this is what they were referring to when they mentioned "Free Skate", not to be confused with the 1 on 1 vs. the goalie, as seen in the FIFA series.

[CupCrazyManiac]

oh oh...what i really DO NOT LIKE is the puck movement..magic puck on stick in full speed..damn that look soooo bad and unrealistic! Where is the REAL PHYSICS
i ll hope thats not in retail version....

[Segagendude]

Oh man that looked awesome!!

[RealmK]

Quote: Originally Posted by CupCrazyManiac

oh oh...what i really DO NOT LIKE is the puck movement..magic puck on stick in full speed..damn that look soooo bad and unrealistic! i ll hope thats not in retail version....

So how do you suggest they do it? Make the player lose the puck every 2 seconds causing the game to be an never ending turnover fest with zero flow? It's never going to be 100% realistic. That's just how it is. At the end of the day it's a video game.

[adayinthelife]

Quote: Originally Posted by CupCrazyManiac

oh oh...what i really DO NOT LIKE is the puck movement..magic puck on stick in full speed..damn that look soooo bad and unrealistic! Where is the REAL PHYSICS i ll hope thats not in retail version....

Quote: Originally Posted by RealmK

So how do you suggest they do it? Make the player lose the puck every 2 seconds causing the game to be an never ending turnover fest with zero flow? It's never going to be 100% realistic. That's just how it is. At the end of the day it's a video game.

I'll agree that it doesn't look so hot, but Realm is right, it's not going to get any better this gen. Overall I'll take the weird puck on stick animation over the way it's been in this series for the last 5 years with players ALWAYS having two hands on the stick when skating with the puck. I think it will do a lot to really make it feel like your player is motoring out there.

[Profit89]

Why is the puck stuck to the stick like glue.

[Gagnon39]

Skating backwards with the puck... vomit.

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gagnon39

Skating backwards with the puck... vomit.

I don't understand why you always harp on this, Gagnon. They just do it in these videos to show the functionality. It's not like the AI is going to be figure skating out there and skating backwards after every other stride. (However, if that is the case, then we have something to complain about, lol)

And like we've heard from a couple people with inside info, players will lose the puck much easier when skating backwards, so I don't think it will be the online exploit that some on here do.