Worried before the release some news for heated discussions, because in the new NHL 15 should compared to the previous few game modes have found a place, which unfortunately also true. While 14 still came to a total of 20 game modes in NHL, are only 7 remained in the new NHL 15 and thus likeProud 13 game modes to suffer cuts. Available therefore are Fast offline Match, Online (Vs.), Training, NHL Moments Live, Be A GM, Be A Pro and Hockey Ultimate Team. Especially in the last two mentioned, the one or the other NHL fan should have calmed down a bit, because of course the two main modes are yet integrated. ;-) Fans of the series are all mentioned game modes of course a concept, but now for newcomers I go briefly on the mentioned modes and their contents.
Actually, at least three of the aforementioned modes Fast offline Match, Online (Vs.) and training are pretty self-explanatory. Do you want to just quickly a 1-on-1 game against the AI or a friend deny the fast offline match is the right option. Sitting your friend just not with you in the room, or you want to just play against other online players, you can do so in the online mode. To get a feel for the first control, the training has to be just, although the scope of whatever sparse fails. You have neither the possibility a second player to quote on the ice in order to practice or similar one-timer, still can train their z. B. Bullys. You're almost alone and are allowed with shots on the keeper hammering. Your keeper is even though the bottom still in goal, but his only purpose is in there, look good and you occasionally to play the puck back. :-) I personally classic NHL 94 NHL 95 gesuchtet have until the fall, and therefore love the classic controller. Of course, you have just the skill sticks in the regular control a variety of ways, but the handling requires a little practice at first, for which the training mode naturally offers here. Anyone who has always wanted to reenact great moments from the NHL or even change, this year may again some passages from the 2013/2014 season in NHL Moments Live enact the season 2014/2015 is of course not yet available and will be later provided for download. There are for each of the available games again a little summary for gameplay, as the game has gone at the end, and what is your task. So if there is a match 3: 3 and was a particular player of the winning team even the 4: 3 scored in the final third, you will probably be exactly of these players on the ice must to play through the story. Perhaps you succeed then even more than the one goal. ;-)
In some forums, a certain type of game appeared particularly often on the Wish List to the General Manager mode, which is called in the current NHL Be A GM. Who now thinks: Wait a minute, a pure manager mode in NHL? How cool, I have to slow down a bit, unfortunately. ;-) Yes, EA goes here at least already a big step in the right direction, but this is by not entirely consistent. Nevertheless, you can this mode still quite a bit of creative freedom to your team to forms, their way of course, the match must deny himself. So their Lord are on the budget and can extend, terminate or look for current offerings out player contracts. Do you want to change the team a bit, but is on the market no player who corresponds to your ideas, you can send a scout on the road, which suggests you some players for certain positions. Of course you can also trade players, if it is currently not as good looks at the box office, or you quickly need a temporary replacement for injured Eiskämpfer. Last but not least, you are allowed even the evil manager let out and some players discard in the squad management of its functions that do not bring the expected performance and also change their jersey numbers, or structure the series from scratch. That's about basically everything shall do it in Be A GM. Impact on revenue, such. As entrance fees, endorsement deals or prices for food, drinks and merchandise you have not, of course, as you 15 can not interfere with the economic part in NHL.
I personally love the already introduced in NHL 14 Be A Pro mode, and I am glad that you can go through a career as a single hockey player in the new NHL offshoot. However, some features of this game type were compared with 14 NHL painted what I questionable and partly incomprehensible personally find and unfortunately you can still only choose from predefined faces. It would be a Kinect or PlayStation 4 camera perfect options to have them scanned his likeness. Take, for example, red pencil-times the Entry Draft, where one lies down as an amateur, as a rule over backward to draw attention to themselves and hopefully to receive offers from teams. While you could play in the Drafts predecessor nor even to quasi to influence in the decision, you can simulate this in NHL 15 only by pressing a button. In my case, I pressed the button and was allowed in the San Jose Sharks to stay na congratulations gift. The next disillusionment followed then after the first replacement, because even though I would have welcomed the NHL 14 Review more interactivity, there is even the most normal thing simply canceled the current branch of the world, because you can not now look free if you sit on the bench. Say, there where the puck is pointing, as is being scrutinized, basta! Now that one finds at last right audience, some of which still nice signs hold up and are covered, one would still very much like to look simply times! The shaping of his character also assumes strange trains and I also have a few hours can not see through, such as the awarding of Experience Points (short: EXP) composed. After each game you get a result of its demonstrated power times more or less EXP, which is also entirely plausible. This EXP can be to utilize the skills of his opponent in various areas to improve. The higher the level of skill, the more EXP must be invested in order to drive this further upward. As far as all this sounds still pretty logical, but the incomprehensible part I come now. If you have 1,200 EXP for player development available and requires around 360 EXP to z. B. to increase the slap shot precision, it might yet rise to the existing EXP loose two points in the skill, right? No, that would have been possible in NHL 14, but not here. In NHL 15, the Available EXP are automatically divided among the six subregions shot, puck control, sense, Skating, physique and defense. In the aforementioned example, then you have 300 EXP left and can level up from the subregion shot therefore in any capacity before you have not completed a few more games. Why the character design has been adopted, is beyond me, but it smells strongly of artificial expansion of player development.
FIFA fans will be able to safely start with the term Ultimate Team and something EA has also been introduced in NHL 13 Hockey Ultimate Team mode naturally maintained because it is, after all, is the most played on-line mode in NHL. This mode allows you to make your own dream team to bounce back and compete with these against other comrades, or AI. For each match won, there are coins, the z. B. may be issued in the store for collectible card packs. These packages are trading cards of players and other items to interact with z. B. to contracts. However, these trading cards are not just pretty cards for virtual showcase, but also form usable in your teams. The contents of the card pack is randomly generated and as with almost all things in life right, the beads are usually behind the expensive pack. Of course, it would take some time before you have enough credits to strike together with the high-order packets, so you can I use this as an alternative to purchase against real money. Many packages are sometimes naturally at also unusable cards, which you can provide either the sale or sell directly for a few coins. Auction is a good word, because if you ever specifically one or the other player chooses, you can look around you in the ongoing sale of other online players and provide the players cards. With a lot of thrill, diligence, patience and possibly money, you can end up with maybe your very own all-star team will shine and voted Team of the Week. :-)
And he scores. From the ice
Did you once gewurschtelt you through the very tidy but rather sluggish menu and start a match, you will be shown after quite fast loading time probably presents the respective venue from the air, which I personally find very nice. Then enter the two commentators and a few kind words from yourself, which repeats this sequence after the third match and shortly afterwards it's already on the ice. My first impression was short: Wow, because as beautiful a NHL hockey has never previously been seen on a console. The ice, again a corner realistic than its predecessor and the level of detail of the characters leaves nothing to be desired in my opinion. The longer one stays on the virtual playing field, the more I wonder how one could make the graphics in the future even better and even if that would be necessary at all. Now if you could fit the gameplay, everything was really perfect and fortunately this is a major triumph. The animations and the handling of the protagonists runs smooth as silk by hand and commands are run ragged. From game to game, more and more details come to light, and also I'm still surprised more often. So it is not uncommon that a player falls to the ground after a heavy body check while his helmet and / or other parts of his equipment loses. If this was still within the allowable running the game continues, and even the lost equipment will react to collisions, so z. B. helmets are hurled through the ice. Here the pattern is not always the same, because often stays after a fall also all attached to the body. Even on small details has been thought, because once you are careless with your players and drive an opponent virtually at their stumbles often and depending on the body type and the opponents. This is sometimes even annoying, but not in a negative sense, because in real life it would probably otherwise, is only natural then perhaps a good counterattack chance fell into the water. ;-) Even now move the jerseys and even shots or checks have visible impact on the clothing. The scoring goals makes in NHL 15 again really fun and you can here as Sagittarius keystroke retrieve one of four different victory poses. If you are really good, the fans are going to love you, and even home-made signs with various inscriptions such. B. uphold in my case Martins Biggest Fan. That's great and makes natural addition for a euphoric mood. Shoot one of your AI colleagues a goal and you were, at best, the presentation timer, you can you just go in the direction of Sagittarius, after which takes place an automatic embrace with happy looking faces. Of course, again fights on the pitch that after a good blow hardly offer innovations to the loss of more equipment, however. Negative striking, however, the faces are taken less after the scuffle than predecessors and a black eye is next on game also no longer be seen.
Certainly come later in a few new features or enhancements added, because you can choose between different gameplay updates that seem to be disconnected from the game core in NHL 15 for the first time. During my testing, there was an update to the newer version, the exact details were not apparent to me. If someone's new gameplay update and related changes but not like you can go to the options to another version, and so play with an older state. This way I find very interesting and well resolved, because you had to live in the past with the gameplay of the applied patches and now has a choice.
Of viewers, fans and folders The atmosphere
EA has done it again this year, the already great atmosphere to transfer of NHL 14 in the new NHL 15 and by the introduction of folders and the right audience, instead, still noticeably improve the unloving animated silhouette target. The once great and dramatic acoustics accompanied the whole and together with the great gameplay and the extremely good graphics a winning combination. The few bugs such. As the occasional disappearance of players in the gang or the condition bar in Be A Pro mode, the mood disturb minimal and must be rectified with security updates thanks. In the future, you should still continue to engage in the detailed box and add another important element, because it is common in the NHL, throw the fans for a hat-trick with scarves, hats and Cappys to celebrate their star.
Pro:
+ Great graphics
+ Solid gameplay
+ Coherent and rousing atmosphere including acoustics
+ Animations buttery soft and authentic
+ Players clothing and equipment to respond to various situations
+ Integration of viewers with interactivity
+ Switching between gameplay versions possible
Cons:
- Menus very sluggish
- Few game modes compared to its predecessor
- Ask dignity EXP-distribution in the "Be A Pro" mode
- Players disappear sometimes in the gang
- Injuries in scuffles barely visible
- Character customization in "Be A Pro" mode upgradeable
- No movement on the bench ("Be A Pro" mode)
- Disappearance of the condition display in "Be A Pro" mode
Conclusion
Finally there is NHL for the current gen and the wait was worth it, for never has an NHL Hockey looked better than this year and also the gameplay and atmosphere fit easily. The few bugs disrupt the game experience is not great, but for some design choices in the game modes as well as the rather sluggish menus. Who can get over that of 20 game modes, only 7 are left and fancy a good hockey simulation has, can safely access here.
(Full Review: GamesFinest.de)
