There may be many hockey fans out there, so...
I bought an xbox360 not long ago, with NHL08, I start to think I made a mistake.
I can't figure out how to score, d'you have to drive the puck with that annoying joystick, prepare your slap, taking a look at the goal to see where to shoot, then point the stick in a totally different direction than the one you're going to - which is completely awkward - all that in a time frame of about 0.05 second ?
I have a custom team, all guys are at 99, I have 40 shots to 18, 40 bodychecks to 5 (ok maybe 3 were effective as it seems the guys are not subject to gravity anymore, except on rare occasion where you've been preparing your hit 40 meters ahead, the rest of the time the defenseman are just doing circles trying to catch the opoonent), 21 face-offs won to 1, 12 minutes in the offense zone Vs 6 for the computer, and still I lose 2 to nothing.
When I eventually score, 9 times out of 10 it's not one of the 40 slaps that finally makes it, no, it's just a lame deviation in a totally awkward direction.
Is there something I'm missing ? I read many reviews saying the 08 was finally more than a mere roasters revamp, but still, I need more than a code to enable reebok jerseys to say that this game doesn't suck.
I have that xbox since 10 days, and I'm already thinking of selling it, as all studio come up with are boring FPS (I find video games those days are like movies, big names, sequels of sequels of sequels, lot of explosion, but no mood, no atmosphere, no personality). The pad sucks too, the directional cross isn't precise at all, you hit "right" and it moves "right/up"...
I bought an xbox360 not long ago, with NHL08, I start to think I made a mistake.
I can't figure out how to score, d'you have to drive the puck with that annoying joystick, prepare your slap, taking a look at the goal to see where to shoot, then point the stick in a totally different direction than the one you're going to - which is completely awkward - all that in a time frame of about 0.05 second ?
I have a custom team, all guys are at 99, I have 40 shots to 18, 40 bodychecks to 5 (ok maybe 3 were effective as it seems the guys are not subject to gravity anymore, except on rare occasion where you've been preparing your hit 40 meters ahead, the rest of the time the defenseman are just doing circles trying to catch the opoonent), 21 face-offs won to 1, 12 minutes in the offense zone Vs 6 for the computer, and still I lose 2 to nothing.
When I eventually score, 9 times out of 10 it's not one of the 40 slaps that finally makes it, no, it's just a lame deviation in a totally awkward direction.
Is there something I'm missing ? I read many reviews saying the 08 was finally more than a mere roasters revamp, but still, I need more than a code to enable reebok jerseys to say that this game doesn't suck.
I have that xbox since 10 days, and I'm already thinking of selling it, as all studio come up with are boring FPS (I find video games those days are like movies, big names, sequels of sequels of sequels, lot of explosion, but no mood, no atmosphere, no personality). The pad sucks too, the directional cross isn't precise at all, you hit "right" and it moves "right/up"...
