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Real hockey players go all out for the few minutes that they're on the ice yet the ones you'll see in NHL 2K10 move at a snail's pace unless you mash on the right trigger. Yes, there's still a turbo button (defaulted to the right trigger) but having to mash it to get any sense of speed is annoying on the ice.
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Despite the annoying magnetic puck effect, my main complaint with the gameplay is the speed and lack of flow that is presented because of the feeling of skating in sand. It doesn't make a lick of sense when you see it and it continues to get more and more annoying each time it happens. Landing checks will send guys spinning around, even to their knees, but the puck will sometimes stay in their control. Offense is simplified even further when you toss in the magnetic puck effect that permeates the action. Even when I turned up the difficulty I was able to slap home shots to the upper-90 without much of a problem and the goalkeeper AI was never able to adjust to stop this from happening. NHL 2K10 is a very offense-based game and one-timers and random luck are still the key to scoring. Sadly, along with the moniker of delivering a more "social experience" comes some detractors to simulation hockey. It's a perfectly crafted, easy to use system that makes the multiplayer experience much more seamless than it has been in the past. The same goes for exhibition games and pond hockey. If you're playing in franchise mode, it's nice and easy to invite your buddies in to play with you or against you. First, the good: You can invite your friends into any game mode that you want. Elements both good and bad arise because of this change. It's clear that most of their time was spent trying to deliver a quality experience on Nintendo's system and the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions suffer in terms of innovation because of it.įor some reason social gaming has been brought to the forefront of this year's game in terms of design philosophy.
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EA throws massive amounts of development resources at their NHL series every year and 2K Sports is understandably having a tough time keeping up, especially when you throw in the Wii version of NHL 2K (a platform that EA ignores for NHL games). The classic adage of David versus Goliath works perfectly for comparing 2K to EA Sports.