So how many of the hard core TR4V3STY team are going to get it?

At first I was not real sure if I would , but the closer it gets to the time it will come out the more I realize NHL 12 is just getting boring and I need an upgrade. So this weekend I may just go pre-order/Pay for it and get it over with.

I am hoping some of the usual guys here who played 12 will get it and we can go wild on it. Man, we used to play NHL 12 like every night. :smiley-computer008:

OH NO !! ANOTHER LEGEND CARD !!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

demo comes out tomorrow gents.

Sweet, looking forward to exactly what they let me have a taste of tonight.

Ok, I woke up early to get a taste of this game, and it's great.

Graphics improvement-- not dramatically, but obviously
no more turbo button, the acceleration is amazingly responsive, but not cartoony unreal
I was able to build from the back by speeding around/ behind the net, just like in real hockey. Awesome.
the new animations make it look as close to real hockey than any other NHL game

hitting is going to have to be tuned online, I can see this game being a hitfest. Players fall down flat this year, and you can flatten someone you're close to without much momentum.

So the demo is drop ins? If so I will be all over that when i get home tonight, better stock up on the beer, LOL.

Last game the hitting was much worse when they first released it then after a few updates, hopefully this one they will tune it down too. Don't get me wrong I love hitting, but the hip check when NHL 12 released was just sooooooo redonkulous that you could basically walk up to someone, bend over beside them, and they would go flying.

Hits in NHL are common, but the kind of utterly crushing hits in the NHL game don't happen that often in the real game. Most hits are just enough to jar the puck loose.