NHL 07 is a revolution, you won't play hockey game the same way you did in the past years!
You need to play at least a few hours before getting used to the skills stick. Once you master it, you will greatly enjoy it.
Positive
-The new skills stick is a revolution in the way you play a hockey game. -The skating and the physics is extremely realistic, skating to a lose puck is much harder than it ever was.
-Every goal is spectacular, the velocity on the puck even on a wrist shot is extremely strong and even more realistic. -The is no cheezy goal anymore. Everytime you try to score a goal the same way you did before, it fail. There is so many differents way to score, a good player should be able to react the best way in any situation. -The gameplay is extremely fluid.
-Fighting for the puck is now a priority, keeping the puck is much more harder than it was. Negative
-Playing in the defensive zone is not really exciting, it could use more work from the developpers. Graphics
Positive
-The graphics are simply amazing, the animations are smooth and extremely detailed. There is plenty of animations.
-There is a replay of every shots between each period and everytime the play stop. There is a replay of every goals at the end of the game.
-They did a very good job on each players , most of them really look like their real life counterpart. Negative
-Some graphical glitchs, mostly on the penalites, most of the time the stick don't even touch the players and the player will fall. Of course you will have a penalty. Sound
The sounds is extremely solid, on and off the ice. The commentators are doing the same good job. Value
I only took a quick look at Dynasty but from what I heard and from what I saw, it looks very interesting. -There is no fantasy draft.
-There is a create of player, IGN was wrong.
-You can edit players.
One of the downside of the game is the lacks of game mode, hopefully we can expect more next year.
-Dynasty Mode
-World Tournement
-Shootout
-Quick Match Overall the Game is superb, there is so many upsides that you will quickly forget the downside. Even if you don't like hockey you should give a try to this game, this is truly a NEXT-GEN game and the best hockey game since a very long time (even better than NHL 2k5!). have fun!
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