Archive for the ‘NHL’ Category
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NHL 09 Demo Impressions and Videos
The game running away with the most anticipated for September poll now has a its demo available for the PS3 and the 360 will likely receive it next week. The demo features the 3rd period of Play Now or Be A Pro with the Penguins @ Red Wings. It also includes a few basic tutorials (shooting, skating, defense). In a pleasant surprise there are a few settings that can be changed. The difficulty level can be set to either Pro or All-Star and the cameras can be set to Ice, Classic, Overhead, B...
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Demo for NHL 09 Coming Next Week to PS3
The demo for NHL 09 will be available on the PS3 later today next Thursday (generally PSN updates occur around 3pm PT). The Xbox 360 won't be receiving the demo until sometime in early September. The demo includes a Stanley Cup rematch of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings played through the perspective of an individual player in Be a Pro mode as well as being able to play the game the standard way. The new Be A Pro career mode will put you in the skates of an up and coming su...
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Tiger 09 and NHL 2K9 Demos Available
The Tiger Woods 09 demo is out for both the 360 and PS3. It contains three different holes to play, feedback and custom drills with Hank Haney, and the opportunity to try out the new club tuning feature. The NHL 2K9 demo can be found for the PS3 and should be following on the 360 as early as next week. It offers a three minute period with the Detroit Red Wings facing the Pittsburgh Penguins. Does Tiger Woods feel like an advancement from last year? Does NHL 2K9 really come across as ha...
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NHL 09 Hockey League Trailer
A new trailer has been released for NHL 09 featuring the recently announced EA Sports Hockey League. This offers a progression and combination of the Be A Pro and Online Team Play modes within a giant league environment, all while playing for a created team and attempting to improve as an individual similar to an MMO. Continue on to view the trailer in which producer David Littman discusses the Hockey League feature along with gameplay footage from the unique camera perspectives. (more&...
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NHL 09 Introduces EA Sports Hockey League
The secret online feature for NHL 09 has now been officially revealed as being the EA Sports Hockey League. This will be somewhat of a combination between Be A Pro mode and Online Team Play. Along the lines of an MMO, you'll be able to create your player and improve him through the EASHL. Teams will comprise of up to 50 users, individual and team stats will be tracked, and this will be a ranked online mode. Only two team members will be required to compete together in order to count a game,...
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NHL 2K9 coming to the Wii
2K Sports today announced that NHL 2K9 will be released on the Wii in the fall with a likely date of September 9th. 2K9 was already known to be on the way for the 360, PS3, and PS2 featuring Rick Nash as the cover athlete and will be built from the ground up after the studio move to Visual Concepts. “It’s our goal this year to bring the fun back to hockey video games,†said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. “NHL 2K9 for Wii includes the full feature s...
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What could NHL 09’s mystery feature be?
Ever since the barrage of information that has come for NHL 09, whether it be from the initial media previews or the more extensive community event reports, much of the talk has surrounded the "massive" feature (as labeled by Gamespot) that is being kept under wraps. With so many new features and improvements already known it's almost hard to imagine what else they could've added that would be so significant. Thanks to IGN we know that it is an online feature, and one that has "never been s...
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NHL 09 Community Event Info
The NHL 09 community event was held back at the start of April, and with the embargo having been lifted the first reports have made their way out. A lot more is discussed than what was recently profiled by Gamespot. Included are gameplay related improvements, Be A Pro details, EA Sports World integration, custom sounds (similar to how they are used in NCAA Football 09), a new fighting system, and much more. I've linked to several write-ups below. Console Sports Crash The Net The Breakaw...
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