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I know there aren't many hockey fans here...but this has continually been EA Sports top sports game since 08 or so now.

For this season, they've slowed down the game play a bit which really allows you to see plays develop, and get those few extra dekes in on the goalie.

Right now I'm busy with the Ultimate Team mode, working on building my team from scratch, though it's very slow.

If anybody else is playing this for the 360, add MelBlount (that's me), I'll smoke you.
 
What do you mean since 08? This has been EA Sports top game, period.
Ever since the first one came out on the Sega Megadrive in, I think it was 1992.
Back then it was simply called EA Hockey, it just had international teams, and EA Sports was called EASN, which stood for Elecronic Arts Sports Network. The 1994 one was the start of EA Sports, and also the first one to have all the national teams we know today.
1995 was the first one to have a full calendar season, and came with a battery back up on the cartridge to save your game.
This and Madden were the two games that made the EA Sports name so popular.
Fifa has only really been decent since 09.
Madden was good up until 07, probably the only one of the series that failed. The last two have been good.
Tiger Woods only really started to shine when it came to the PS2. The Megadrive ones were excellent, but they were only called EA Sports PGA Tour Golf.
The NBA games have always been terrible. One day they might get it right.
I know there ain't many hockey fans out there, but you can't argue with the facts: NHL has had an 18 year jump on Fifa when it comes to quality gaming. I have always been a fan of NHL, and it is and always will be my favourite game in the EA Sports franchise.
I haven't bought one for a while, I usually leave it two or three years before I get a new update(I have NHL 08), but I plan to get NHL 11.
 
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After playing the demo and reading up on the new features I was super excited to pick up the game even though I decided to skip a year with all the other good games coming out. Then I read people's impressions after it came out and it seems like EA really dropped the ball. With people spending real money to boost their HUT cards, it seems to have made a completely unbalanced playing field. I'm not the best when it comes to online, and to not even have a chance in a lot of match ups...no thanks. I don't care if they want to make money, and it's not mandatory, but when it destroys a feature of the game it's just not right. I'll be sticking with 10 for another year I guess.
 
Golfman
I haven't bought one for a while, I usually leave it two or three years before I get a new update(I have NHL 08), but I plan to get NHL 11.
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They completely re-vamped the game for 09. I loved the 90's ones, but 2000-2008 I thought they were kinda crap games to be honest.

NHL 09 raised the bar to a whole different level and won about every sports game of the year award the year it came out, same with '10. They are definitely the two most played games on the Xbox, and the only time I even bother paying for XBL is right after a new NHL game comes out.

Icarus25
After playing the demo and reading up on the new features I was super excited to pick up the game even though I decided to skip a year with all the other good games coming out. Then I read people's impressions after it came out and it seems like EA really dropped the ball. With people spending real money to boost their HUT cards, it seems to have made a completely unbalanced playing field. I'm not the best when it comes to online, and to not even have a chance in a lot of match ups...no thanks. I don't care if they want to make money, and it's not mandatory, but when it destroys a feature of the game it's just not right. I'll be sticking with 10 for another year I guess.
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NHL 10 had the same thing in Be a Pro mode, where you could spend money if you wanted to, but didn't really have to. The HUT mode definitely doesn't require you to spend anything to get good cards though, a standard pack (which includes one guaranteed rare card) comes at a cost of 2500 pucks, which I earn in 4-5 games played. Yeah you could spend 80 XBL points on it, but 4-5 games takes a little over an hour, what's the point of spending money when it's pretty easy to get them for free.

I'm 25 games in and I already have a pretty good team, able to compete right at the AHL and sometimes NHL level, and I haven't spent a cent.

I find it kind of annoying how EA tries to milk you out of money after buying a 60 dollar game to begin with, but it's entirely possible to build a good team in a short amount of time without spending a cent.
 
I'm blown away, it's a great game. My only critique is that the trading in be a GM mode is way too easy. My roster is absolutely stacked, and when Washington gives up Ovechkin for Toews+1st rounder, there's a problem.


The game itself and HUT is great, and I'm just going through the process of making my own soundtrack right now (EA TRAX is garbage). I'm really happy with the way the game feels compared to 09.


Oh, just found the perfect song to enable as the goal song for Team USA!

(Super language warning, definitely NSFW)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI
 
Bumping this, Lmao the trading in Be a GM is ridiculous. Here's my lines as the Habs after 3 seasons of shrewd trading...

D.Sedin-S.Stamkos-C.Perry
M.Pacioretty-P.Datsyuk-A.Kostitsyn
B.Pouliot-J.Arnott-T.Selanne
T.Moen-D.Steckel-E.Moreau (Grinder line)

V. Hedman-S.Weber
C.Fowler-B.Orpik
H.Gill-J.Wisniewski

C.Price
M.Garon

In the real world, that team would be virtually unbeatable.
 
I try to keep my team as true-to life as possible, but usually end up with a few throw in guys in trades that I do make. Example, in order to get Colborne, I had to give up Versteeg and Caputi for Colborne and Wheeler.

Then, I decide I want to get Lupol, the stupid GM AI turned down Blake Wheeler, a 1st rounder, and a 2nd rounder for Lupol!

Note, him and Wheeler are similarly aged and rated in the game...ridiculous. Plus wheeler's salary cap hit is lower.

I've got my leafs team in its 4th year or so, right now my lines are

Kulemin-Grabovski-Kessel
Macarthur-Kadri-Wheeler
Some dude I drafted-Bozak-Irwin
Wozniewski-Santorelli-M. Brown

As for defense:
Schenn-Kaberle
Phaneuf-Gunnarrson
Aulie-Lashoff

Reimer
Gustavsson (trying to trade him but trading goalies is impossible)
 
All realism for me went down the drain when I traded Gomez and a 2nd rounder for Shea Weber (who is a total beast in this game). Another thing I did, was make the "Hamilton Tigers", give them a yellow/black colour scheme like the CFL team, and replace the Coyotes with them (moved all of Phoenix's players). I'm going to try and keep that one non ridiculous. One thing I did wa go through and manually change the attributes of some of Montreal's players. Hal Gill was way too fast (he and Kadri have the same speed :lol:), Wisniewski's slapper wasn't good enough, Plekanec overall was underrated, Gomez overrated, Price underrated, but I fixed it.

Wow, Joe Colborne is severely underrated. IMO he's better than Kadri.
 
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