Congratulations EA, you did it again!
Gameplay: The skill stick absolutely ruined this game among the AI of your team and everything else. What would be so wrong if you could shoot the puck with one of the four buttons, it was done before and that worked. But it is all too tedious to take one single shot on a net let alone take a wrist shot. But the truly alarming thing is the broken AI, when you rush the their net, you stall until they get there. But if the other team is on your side, you will be the only one there to stop three people, and that happens alot since every team has a horrible defense.
Sound: I cannot stand listenning to the players on the ice, the music and the loading music. Horrifying. Even the music they selected is bad as usual.
Graphics: Meh, does it matter, you'll be to busy trying to shoot the damn puck and stop an entire team from easily scoring on your net. But it isn't that good either way, for next-gen graphics and all.
Value: Too much money for this piece of crap.
That's all I have to say, I only played 5 hours of this crap so I cannot know enough about the modes. The expectations of EA alright, buy Madden that ones good for an EA game.