NHL remains the best of EA’s sports franchises in terms of its simulation NHL 18’s revisions in the back end, offering the means to play this sim, are barely apparent. It’s also apparent that a lack of updates and changes year-over-year is beginning to stagnate things. Frustrating as off-the-puck AI can be (players too frequently seem blind when the puck is loose), in motion, it’s hockey bliss. FIFA’s authenticity fluctuates, Madden plays safe, and NBA Live comes and goes. It works, and when in conjunction with the fluidity afforded to this EA series, it feels right and natural.ĮA’s NHL series remains the best of the publisher’s sports franchises in terms of its simulation, even as its slow pace of growth becomes increasingly hard to ignore. On defense, hold down RB/R1, swing the right analog stick around, and the sweeping motion and/or placement can block a puck or turn away an opposing player. The right analog stick mirrors a digital player’s actual stick, and to a striking degree. ![]() ![]() Key to NHL 18 is an evolution of the skill stick, an impossibly clever means of playing digital hockey even a decade after its inception. Every moment of the series was about skill. The 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Finals was pure hockey, a classic six-game Stanley Cup series, rejecting the long-standing cliche of a black-eyed but smiling player missing a front tooth.
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