NHL 10 Trailer: Refinements

wow, women in the crowd!!

Looks awesome! Can't wait till September.

Women don't like hockey they like shopping.

Imagine that.... women... what next? Likin the facewash features... I've always wanted the feature of after the whistle you mess with people and screw with the goalie and actually have retribution... bout time man!

First person fighting though....little weird.

I've been contemplating getting a NHL game for a while now...and this seems like a good one to start with. Lets hope it stands up to NHL Hits 2002...doubt it though :P

Looks pretty good, might pick it up because the last year version was so highly regarded.

Can't say I give a shit about women in the crowd though, lol.

Looks awesome. But I can never get into NHL. I wish I could.

Looks crap :o

Looks bad

Might as well call the game UFC Hockey 10.

The refinement for the goalies is huge. A lot of people found if you lobbed the puck up over the goalie's head, it was an instant goal because the goalie had no animations to turn around and stop a shot behind them.

Well in concept a first person hockey fight sounds awesome but it doesnt look so hawt in this.

Can it outdo Zeno Clash?!?

I for one am excited about the addition of the boardplay features!

As a person who never plays as any team but San Jose, I try to employ the cycle as much I can, and obviously the puck physics allow me to use the boards to make passes, and to get the puck behind the net, but it doesn't play out how the cycle really works in hockey. You can't just run and smash a guy into the glass when he's got the puck in the corner, you'll leave yourself open and he'll have two passing options: to the point or behind the net. This will allow me to make these passes when my player's skates are free but his stick isn't.

Another new feature will nerf the phenomenon of players using the diving pokecheck to kill breakaways. In real hockey, this can disrupt a breakaway, but it rarely kills it. And the NHL's biggest stars: Ovechkin, Malkin, and (cover athlete) Kane have all scored absolutely incredible goals from their knees and from their backsides.

They should just slap Zeno Clash melee into NHL 10.  

first person fighting..that sounds really ..good .....NOT

will be the first ea sports game i purchase full price

Hope the board play doesn't ruin the flow.

You need to be drunk to enjoy hockey, or Canadian.

im not even into hockey and this looks pretty cool. the fighting thing seems a little contrived though. haha the crowd are a bunch of sims

This is pretty much the only EA sports series that makes significant improvements from year to year.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

First person fighting looks iffy, but the rest of the improvements look awesome. Might actually get this at the time it comes out.

Nice.

i'm consistently impressed by the improvements EA manages to make every year. hopefully the online play won't devolve into NHL09's "cheat and lame to win" strategy. Dude you can score goals from your knees? Sold.

Loved NHL 08, i appreciate the numerous improvments in the latest but........graphical improvments? Seem  tiny, if not none. Will probably buy though 

" You need to be drunk to enjoy hockey, or Canadian. "

Lol'd at "EA Sports, it's in the game!".

First person fighting is going to be terrible.  If that view was any fun, wouldn't boxing games like fight night or punch out be using it?

Can't wait for NHL 10!!! going to be great!

GO HABS GO!

I love being Canadian :P

Women in the crowds???

that fp fighting looks terrible

Number of points to be made here. Looks great and I can't wait. Fighting does look good...for all those people saying it looks terrible, how would you know you never even played the game?

Love all of the improvements. What some of you might not know is they finally put a dedicated group of people to work solely on Dynasty Mode, and another team for goalie animation. As well as a team to fix all those glitch goals you saw in nhl09 online. Can't wait!

This game looks great.

Wait wait wait...  Something's wrong here...  Women?  Outside of the kitchen?  For shame.

Anyways, the game looks awesome.  Loved '09.

This is the reason why I skipped '09. Looking forward to it!

It would be sweet if the fighting mechanics were borrowed from like Fight Night. :D

The crowd and the first person fighting i could care less about. The board play and all those little things seam cool. Heres hoping that NHL10 is better than 09 was because I hated 09

Women in the crowd, i hope that's on the back of the box

Wait, hang on, they're rewarding the fighting now? I always thought it was stupid that hockey video games simulated the fighting at all. I personally think that they should go with the rule from football: throw a punch, and you're out of the game.

Of course, this is mainly because I don't follow hockey and I would enjoy listening to hockey fans bitch about something that should have been done decades ago.

" Wait, hang on, they're rewarding the fighting now? I always thought it was stupid that hockey video games simulated the fighting at all. I personally think that they should go with the rule from football: throw a punch, and you're out of the game. Of course, this is mainly because I don't follow hockey and I would enjoy listening to hockey fans bitch about something that should have been done decades ago. "

" Wait, hang on, they're rewarding the fighting now? I always thought it was stupid that hockey video games simulated the fighting at all. I personally think that they should go with the rule from football: throw a punch, and you're out of the game. Of course, this is mainly because I don't follow hockey and I would enjoy listening to hockey fans bitch about something that should have been done decades ago. "

" @Deusoma said:

" Wait, hang on, they're rewarding the fighting now? I always thought it was stupid that hockey video games simulated the fighting at all. I personally think that they should go with the rule from football: throw a punch, and you're out of the game. Of course, this is mainly because I don't follow hockey and I would enjoy listening to hockey fans bitch about something that should have been done decades ago. "

Fighting isn't overtly rewarded in the game, but by your teammates being "fired up" from watching you win a fight (obviously if you lose it will have the opposite effect; this system was in place for NHL '09 as well). It's the game's way of representing the psychological effect that a fight can have on a team, for better or worse. Also, despite the underlying benefit of getting the rest of the guys on your team psyched up, win or lose, any player who fights will receive a five minute major penalty. This makes fighting factor into a team's strategy when you realize that targeting a key player on the opposing side for a fight could potentially remove that threat from the game for a full five minutes, allowing for some important scoring time.This is all actually a part of real world hockey, and every team in the league has a player on their roster whose primary objective is to start fights with opposing skaters (usually referred to as "agitators"). Also, should the agitator get in over his head, most teams have players considered to be "enforcers," a term usually used to describe a 6'4", 270+ pound dude barreling across the ice to slam the shit out of you because you socked his teammate.Fighting in hockey has been and always will be a hot-button topic, but like it or not, it's here to stay. Personally, I think the fact that EA is trying to incorporate more of the spirit of sports into their video game counterparts is awesome and look forward to NHL '10. "

Sports games have gotten so complicated.  

YES...WOMEN

nice to know EA is beefing up their NHL franchise.