NHL 2K9
NHL 2K9
Sorti le 9 septembre 2008, NHL 2K9 est une simulation sportive de hockey sur glace développée par Visual Concepts et éditée par 2K Sports, 2K Games, Spike Co. Ltd et ak tronic Software & Services. Appartenant à la série NHL 2K, le jeu a été publié sur PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii et Xbox 360, et propose en couverture l'ancien ailier gauche des Columbus Blue Jackets Rick Nash, alors joueur des New York Rangers. La presse a salué la fonction Team-Up en ligne comme une ajout notable et décrit l'ensemble comme un jeu de hockey accessible, tandis que certains joueurs sur Metacritic regrettent un ressenti de jeu inconfortable ou estiment que la transition depuis NHL 2K8 n'apporte guère que de meilleurs graphismes. L'ensemble affiche une note moyenne agrégée de 70,38.
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« The best online addition this year is the Team-Up feature, something all sports games should have going forward. »
« A great hockey game that is very easy to pick up and play. »
« The controls have been fixed, it's fun, and there are some nice touches to the presentation. But the AI is very suspect and the emphasis on fun hurts the authenticity, which was once 2K's biggest selling point. »
« There are three excellent control options available for both old-school players and precision shooters. They work most of the time, although realism takes a back seat with the excessive checking and occasionally dumbfounded artificial intelligence. »
« If the fun NHL 2K9's developers were trying to bring back lies somewhere around the gameplay of Ice Hockey for the NES (the king of pick-up-and-play sports), they surely missed the mark. »
« NHL 2K9 shows that Visual Concepts has pretty much done everything it can to the same core engine that was used when the 360 launched. NHL 2K9 is a good game, but it shows its age in a few too many areas to compete with what else is out there. »
« Controls are responsive and players did what they were told to do without a hitch. Lack of fighting direction hurts this score. »
« A buy to whoever felt intimidated by NHL 09’s approach in terms of game modes and controls. For the hardcore hockey fan...it’s hard to recommend but it deserves a good look. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« This game seems to be cool and everything, but it's just uncomfortable to play it. The whole game isn't as fun as you'd experience some sort of enjoyment. The only fun factor here is icecleaner machine minigame, where you just have to clean an ice field by controlling an icecleaner machine. However, even that is not comfortable. In fact, the controls for it are horrible. »
« I play 2K8 Religiously. About 700 total games so far. Its so fun and enjoyable. Going from PS2-360 of coarse the graphics are better. That's about it. Messing with a steal of a $20 new game and making it junk is mind boggling. The controls were awesome for rookie-advanced players alike. 2K8 franchise is deep real deep. 2 way contracts/ players of the week/ practices/ opportunity knocks etc... 2k8 may or may not have been flawed in was definitely fun. My opinion that is the only thing that matters in judging a game. 2k9 7 2k8 10 »
