Abstract: It seems like the Bruins won the Stanley Cup just a month or two ago and here we are at another NHL season. Oh wait… the Bruins DID win the cup just a couple months ago. Poor concussed Sidney Crosby hasn’t even had enough time to recover from his heada...
Abstract: You remember reading that review of an ice hockey game a while back? You might even remember reading last year's NHL 11 review. It'd be useful if you did remember, because it'll save you some time reading this. Because, like nearly always, it's the sam...
Abstract: Of the four major North American sports, hockey ranks behind only football in terms of its physicality. It’s a brutal game played at high speed; finesse players make headlines with their graceful goal-scoring, but bigger, stronger, and slower skaters...
Abstract: It’s fall again, and that means various sports leagues are getting ready to kick off their respective seasons. One of the bigger sporting activities in North America, and in Canada in particular, is of course hockey. And without fail, EA Sports is once...
Accurate simulation of real NHL hockey, Subtly improved defensive zone coverage and anticipatory AI, Expanded CHL play lets you really get into your major junior career, New Be a Legend mode taps into a limited slice of NHL history.
Very few major differences from NHL 11, Some of the new defensive AI exposes problems with the offense, Inelegant incorporation of the new Winnipeg Jets.
Little things mean a lot in NHL 12, which subtly refines the best arcade hockey game ever made....
Abstract: Sports video games distinguish themselves from other genres because they borrow rules, people, and locations from the real world. No one expects a person to grow twice their size after eating a mushroom or to have bullet wounds heal after only a few se...
NHL 12 is a huge game completely jam-packed with modes and gameplay features. Naming them all and going through everything would take this review into New Yorker Magazine word-count. And that’s a good sign, especially for fans of the series and of hock...
Abstract: With the return of fall comes the sharpening of hockey skates and the excitement in waiting for the puck to drop. NHL ’12 returns us to the sacred ice and we can play out the season in the way that we would best like. Over last year’s versi...
Abstract: For one reason or another, America has never fully embraced Ice Hockey with the love that most Canadians think it deserves. Many scientists hypothesize that this is a result of the innate distrust that Americans have for Canadians, but more research ne...
Abstract: NHL 12 EA Sports definitive series returns again in NHL 12, the latest and greatest virtual hockey game as players engage in another riveting installment of this sport in order to take home the Stanley Cup plus a whole lot more.Although the previous ga...
