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06 June 2010
The NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs have made me want to play more hockey games lately. For several weeks, I've been playing quite a bit of NHL 10 by EA Sports. Sure, the game was a consensus editor's choice in most of the trade magazine publications, and has garnered quite a bit of critical acclaim since it released back in September.
However, the more I play the game, the angrier it makes me. I just can't take how contrived the goal-scoring is. Everything has to happen of a rebound or a deflection. I can no longer stomach how difficult it is for even a sniper to beat a goalie on a quality shot. I have also had my fill of my AI controlled players letting forwards skate past them and settle in front of the net without doing much at all about it. I'm sick of "AI Robo Goalie" who can make miracle saves for the CPU team, while your goalie lets in a 20 foot wrister on the short side. Sure, many people have told me "Just play head to head against someone, and the game is okay." Well, fair enough, but I buy NHL games so I can play a franchise with my favorite teams. Head to head is fun and all, but it is still not the main reason I play, and probably will never be.
But, on a whim, I threw in my NHL 2K10 disc into my XBOX 360. I know there have been some patches since Hank and myself gave impressions in Sept/October of 2009.
To my surprise, I found myself really enjoying NHL 2K10 after being rather un-impressed with the game late last year.
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