Brand new puck physics, speed control, and more exciting gameplay features are making their way into this year's NHL game.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21388.html

It's an ok interview, but it's nice to hear that they've redone the checking and poke-checking too.

Sounds like they made goalies easier to beat. I hope not. He said you will have more success with your skill stick moves and you will be able to score from pretty much anywhere. THATS THE WAY IT IS NOW IN 07.

nice find

very nice but i want to know more about the CAP and game modes

I def. didn't like that video. I agree, it did make it sound like its going to be too easy to score now. I want the shots down..therefore less goals..but when you get 50 shots a game..your going to score 5-10. Thats where it's ridiculous. I hope I just took it the wrong way.

I def. didn't like that video. I agree, it did make it sound like its going to be too easy to score now. I want the shots down..therefore less goals..but when you get 50 shots a game..your going to score 5-10. Thats where it's ridiculous. I hope I just took it the wrong way.



Yeah we all hope

Yeah. I really want to hear more about the Dynasty mode, and all the different features they brought into this years game.

Message was edited by: mapleleafs1032 (EA.com)

good find... but the way i interpreted the scoring question was that the goalies are better.. so to be able to score from everywhere your going to need traffic in front.. littman already said the goalies are fixed so im not to neervous.. maybe more traffic means tip ins?

Ya tip-ins were confirmed by crazylegs and his weekly 1 on 1 with David Littman...

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=237407&start=45&tstart=15

He said...

"I know that some of the frustrations for people was the ability to score. Ive heard that alot, and we tried to look at the authenticity and the percentages of what goalies can save and what we've done is we will kaiter to the skill of the goalie. Some guys will come out and challenge you more and open up the deke and the space. People will A: Find out they can score from pretty much anywhere and B: Will have more success with their skill stick moves."

Doesn't sound good to me. I wanted better and more unpredictable goalies. In 07 you pretty much know how to beat them, and it doesn't sound any harder this year

It is soo easy to score in 07, that I have resorted to bumping up the opposing teams goalie rating up to a 95-97 rating regardless of what team I am playing against. After that I fully increase the opposing teams goalie advantage in the game settings screen, before I enter the game. Obviously this is a pain, but it does make it somewhat challenging to score. I tend to score 2-4 goals this way, and occasionaly I get shutout or only score once.

This has worked for me, but I really hope they adress the goalie issues for 08. Overall I really liked 07, and think that 08 will be great as long as certain issues are correctly adressed.

> He said...
>
> "I know that some of the frustrations for people was
> the ability to score. Ive heard that alot, and we
> tried to look at the authenticity and the percentages
> of what goalies can save and what we've done is we
> will kaiter to the skill of the goalie. Some guys
> will come out and challenge you more and open up the
> deke and the space. People will A: Find out they can
> score from pretty much anywhere and B: Will have more
> success with their skill stick moves."
>
> Doesn't sound good to me. I wanted better and more
> unpredictable goalies. In 07 you pretty much know how
> to beat them, and it doesn't sound any harder this
> year

I feel ya. I hope he means it's easier depending on the level, or perhaps by creating scoring chances. Not easier to score overall.

this is wierd. last year eeryone wasso excited about the game and the videos looked great but this year everyone hates the stuff coming out. i wouldnt worry so much. it will be jus fine when they finish it up. there losing to much money to make a bad game so they will do wutever they need to do to make it a great game

are U kidding? EVRYONE or maybe 9/10 people love what EA are trying to do for 08! Theres no questions about that. :p Im telling U guys with all they expectations, if the goalies are good, it will be the best game on EARTH for real hockey fans.