NHL 17

« Plain and simple, the game delivers. It’s not going to blow your mind in the way you think it should, but that’s exactly how EA Sports wants it. Like the forgotten rookie flying under the radar with an 80-point season, it’s impressive, but only if you know what you’re looking at. »

« NHL 17 marks another step forward for the already great franchise, and is easily the best hockey game to date. »

« NHL 17 has everything in place to separate itself from the other sports titles with only a few cracks in the ice keeping it from a perfect slick. »

« If you’re looking for an authentic NHL game with excellent gameplay and plenty of modes, this is definitely the game for you. »

« For fans of hockey, NHL 17 delivers another cool experience. Recommended. »

« Most importantly, the hockey presented on the ice is dynamic and fluid, and it serves up an excellent version of the fastest game around. »

« With some new depth, the already strong NHL series has remained solid. The product on the ice is great in almost every aspect, but the feature set could still stand to add layers...That said, NHL 17 is still a game virtual hockey fans of all different levels should have in their collections. It’s fun and deep enough to provide long-term entertainment. »

« It has been upgraded and polished, for sure; but whether that justifies purchasing a whole new game is questionable. Last year, I had no hesitation in recommending that you buy NHL 16. This year, as great of a game as NHL 17 is, you might want to stay on the bench for this one. »

« I am currently in season 6 of my "franchise mode". I love being able to play the farm team as well. In franchise mode, you must manage and balance the NHL Team, the minor league team (optional), salary cap, draft picks, and the arena. I find managing and maintaining the arena a frustrating part of the game. You can also change the difficulty level of the opponent. I love this game. There is always a challenge. »

« Last NHL with International Championship. RIP IIHF in NHL series, they should revive it »

« What sport is it? Its a hockey game. Was it fun? No, huge disappointment. Are there any similar games? Yea, its like the other hockey games Would you play it again? I keep trying to play it and like it but I just don’t. Any complaints? Yes, I hate the skating engine in the game. Its like you’re skating in molasses, you can’t stop easily, it takes way too long to initially get moving and good luck turning. Now onto my next complaint, the passing. The passing engine doesn’t work well either. If you’re lucky, 70% of the passes go to the right person. Sometimes the passing, locks onto the wrong player and sometimes and does its own thing. What annoys me is that, I have turn assist off but its still obvious that it is still on. Finally, I hate the momentum based system. It makes come backs very difficult. A lot of fighting games have systems, to give the player a chance to come back with Marvel, “X” Factor or the V-Trigger system in Street Fighter V but with the NHL series, its difficult because you may not have given up but the players you’re controlling clearly have. They’re skating slower than before, they’re hitting their passes and often times the AI is just standing around and watching. »

« Thumbs in the middle. Had a lot more fun in the ps3 days .6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 »

« I honestly want to know how this game got a 73/100. There are indie games that are MUCH BETTER than this recycled ****, honestly. Nothing in this game is new. - The "create-a-team" was already in previous NHL installments (I remember playing it back in 2008 in NHL 07), and in the NHL 2K series you could also customize your custom team's arena. - The "Be-A-Pro" is been the same since NHL 09. - The passing is atrocious (for some reason it looks worse online). You can't do a successful pass EVEN IF YOUR TEAMMATE IS LESS THAN 1 FEET AWAY FROM YOU. Get rid of the "pass" and "saucer pass" button and rename it all of that crap to "DUMP PUCK", because you can't make a successful pass in this game. The player just throws the puck at any direction. It's absolutely ridiculous how disgusting the passing is on this game. - Playing online means you're going to get matched with R1/RB spammers (the poke-check button) and you're connection will be **** (I've done 10 HUT games today, and I couldn't even do a pass without lagging). - The player overall doesn't matter. The only you'll notice a little difference is on their speed. I has completely pissed off when I saw that MY 99 CROSBY was slower than a SILVER 60 PLAYER FROM THE DËL LEAGUE, my regular Gold EVANDER KANE with 89 HANDEDNESS couldn't even deke pass a 70 overall player and that regular Gold KRONWALL got injured just because a player with 69 CHECKING just bumped him. It drives me nuts. This is what really grinds my gears. - The poke-check it's way overpowered. You always get matched with a poke-check spammer every online game you go to. It's almost impossible to have a good match without those kind of assh*les. - The Franchise mode isn't that exciting as shown on EA's trailer (as always). - The Goalie controls/animations need to be redone. They are a total mess. - The UI it's clean but it's very unresponsive. Every little thing you do, you need to wait for a couple of seconds. Remember when on last-gen you could go to you settings right away without having to wait? Good times. - The A.I. makes me sick. I lose the puck just because the an A.I. player passes next to me? Seriously? You got to be kidding me. - I just bought this 2 weeks ago and I already found a ton of bugs in this crap: A.I. just freezes in a random spot after the faceoff, some pucks that I shoot, for some reason, they hit the post and then they bounce back at like 200 MPH, i've already lost a game because I tried to do a cross-crease and my shooter just froze... - The soundtrack... thank you PlayStation for Spotify. I've been playing every NHL video game religiously since NHL 2001 and I can say that the last one that I enjoyed playing it was NHL 10. The rest is completely utter ****... and it gets worse every year, since EA is recycling their video games. Removing content that was available on older installments and releasing them as "new features". You should be making FUN games. The recent **** you've been releasing it's horrible! I got this on a sale and I gave only $10, but I regret it. Buy another stuff with your money because this crap isn't worth any of your money and time. »

« worst passing i ever expired, golies are dumb The gameplay is HORRID. It's impossible to hit your player with a pass NHL games for such a long time and it's sad to say that this is the worst entry in the series. It is the only NHL game I returned. There is no difference from last years version other than the new modes which don't offer anything fresh »

« I like to play NHL mainly offline, as I rarely have a chance to know I can finish a game without having to pause in the middle. The game is otherwise quite all right except the AI totally ruins it. Pro is easy as you might expect, but the problem I have is with the all-star AI. Yes, I can beat the AI most of the time on all-star, but there is no joy in that as the AI cheats like a motherf... you know. AI pulls of moves like you never could, it will defend against you with 2-3 players and most of the time keep scoring basically impossible, and then depending on your predefined luck a chance of 1-6 times a game to score on easy one-timer or so. The most-of-the-time amazing defense would be fine if you could get your own AI to doing something useful on defence, but instead you basically always end up on 1v1 situation instead of 2-3v1 that the AI does... And you also pretty much always lose all board-plays as the AI executes like the machine it is... Also really fun feature is that the AI also sticks like a glue on you when they shadow. And when they come for a tackle it is like a train, which you can't avoid, even if you quite often get to a situation that you really can't tackle. I can't explain it, the defenseman you are operating just won't tackle just instead skate next to the AI player in an awkward stance. Other things that are broken are the player editor. I dare you to try to change the potential likelyhood of any player. I dare you. Every now and then it might even show it changed, sometimes even to that color you set... but it didn't, it just seems like it until you go away and come back and the potential likelyhood is back on red or whatever it used to be instead of green or so you tried to set. The menu is also the most sluggish Ui that I have ever used. It's so slow it is really amazing. It's even slow on places where there actually should not be any reason to be sluggish. Let's say you want to save a franchise game... it will take 15-30seconds for you to be able to choose wether you'd like to create a new save or override... seriously, why did I have to wait for that? There is no need to do a expensI've read/write operation on disk for that. Especially since the menu will let you try to create a new save even if you have used the maximum save capacity for the game. So it didn't even check that's during that 15-30sec you waited... Terrible design by the team... The online game is actually quite fine when you get to play. Except when EA has problems with their servers which is surprisingly often when you think it is year 2017 and most of the competitors do not have that frequent issues... So why I still play the game, you ask? Because I really like hockey as a sport and I need my "fix". If there was any competition I definitely would give them a chance. »

« This is first nhl I played since nhl07, so I will not be comparing and rather say, that this is great hockey game with all features there is to offer, great and innovative control (skill sticks), good and quite stable multiplayer, decent singleplayer even though there is a bit unfairness when you are losing to opposing AI team. And at last and least a really bad soundtrack, I get that creators tried to pick music for everybody, but hockey is a quick game with lots of hits, so there should be pumped up music that makes your blood boil. Overall I think it is a must buy for all nhl fans and great sport game. »