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Written by Craig Gonzalez
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
ConsoleSports.net will be attending the EA Sports NHL 09 Community Event this week at EA's Canada studio in Vancouver, BC along with other sites from the hockey video game community. This is a very exciting time for the hockey community in general as it is the earliest the community will be able to get a first glimpse at a game in development ever...I think. So, keep checking back to ConsoleSports.net throughout the week for updates. I will be posting whatever I can, but keep in mind that due to the stage of development, we will be under some very strict embargo's. Which means our lips will be sealed. Also don't forget to keep on checking back to the ConsoleSports.net forums where I will try to post in there as much as possible during the trip as well. -Craig Gonzalez (co-founder) | |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 March 2008 )
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Written by Craig Gonzalez
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
 ConsoleSports.net has been invited to the first official NHL 09 Community Event that takes place from April 1st-4th at EA Canada in Vancouver, BC. While we won't be able to talk about what we see for quite some time, we are still going to take some suggestions on what you would like to see in the game for NHL 09!
So, if you haven't already, sign up in our forums and give us your suggestions!
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 March 2008 )
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Written by Craig Gonzalez
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 The time has finally come where we can actually talk about NHL 08 in full. Previously, we weren’t really able to talk about the online modes, Dynasty Mode, and the Creation Zone. I know the info has been coming out of the media sites about some online features and the creation zone, but we were actually able to get our hands on the game and experience some of these things first hand.
Online Leagues
I’m going to cut right to it. As it’s been released already, there are going to be actual online leagues in NHL 08 this season. That’s right; EA listened and are giving us what we’ve wanted them to give us for a few years now. Here’s the thing, though, from what I understand there might not be a web interface for it and the league pages might only be accessible via XBOX Live in NHL 08. That was mentioned to me at the Easton NHL 08 Community Event shortly after they announced the online leagues, but there still seemed to be a little uncertainty about that. I’m playing it safe and pretty much planning on their not being a web component to the league and hope we get pleasantly surprised. We aren’t going to be able to do full online franchises with trades and what not this year, but the mere fact that we are able to compete in a leagues and have it keep records and stats is a huge plus coming from the EA camp.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 August 2007 )
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Written by Craig Gonzalez
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 |
 I was invited to represent ConsoleSports.net at the EA Sports Easton NHL 08 Community Day out in Vancouver from July 26-28. I will say that it was quite a journey to get there and that it was probably one of the worst travel experiences of my life, but the event itself was well worth the trouble getting there and back. NHL 08 really expanded on last year’s title and brought the depth and the trimmings that people were hoping for after playing NHL 07. I came away from the event very impressed at what I saw and played, and I think NHL 08 is a must have title for not only hockey gamers, but sports gamers in general.
To start the event off, we got a little bit of time with the game while we were at the Ice Sports 8 Rinks in Vancouver. We got a little taste of the game before we hit the ice with actual producers of the NHL 08 game along with Nashville Predators Defensemen Shea Weber. Basically, what Producer David Littman wanted to show us is how they added sim elements to the game and wanted to show us in real life how some of those features worked. We all weren’t hockey hardcores and I thought it was great that they had us on the ice to show us some of the intricacies of hockey. I have never played organized hockey before, but I felt like I was at hockey practice with the way David Littman conducted the event. It was pretty cool. David, Shea, and the rest of the NHL 08 Producers went through specific drills and showed us how they were in NHL 08. We did the agility drill in real life, we did the breakaway drill with another of the NHL 08 Producers manning the pipes, and we even shot pucks at the net to try to hit the upper corners. Then, we just kind of had a shoot around and skate around for a bit. Shea was there assisting the producers in showing us how the off-puck deking works in real life as well as fire shots at the net with different sticks. I thought the on-ice aspect of the event was one of the funnest things I’ve done in a while and was really beneficial for us to grasp some of the finer things we will see in this year’s game. We also all received Easton Stealth composite hockey sticks due to the fact that Easton was sponsor of the event and let me tell you, these sticks are sweet. They are light as all heck and are strong as ever. I never really realized the technology that goes into some of these sticks. Boy there are impressive.
Enough about the trip, let’s get to the gameplay…
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 August 2007 )
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