TEAMXBOX NHL 2005 Preview

[Sakic19]

Originally Posted by coyoteshockeyfan

2 Things:

Big heads are lame.

Why does the little face off screen come up during the cutscenes instead of right before the face off? Seems kind of annoying. Otherwise, things look pretty good indeed.

1. You can turn it off somehow, I know that much.

2. Do you really want to cycle through a few Faceoff options in the what, 6 seconds you have before the ref drops the puck? No, I'd rather be ready and concentrated on the faceoff 6 seconds beforehand.

[Bearcat2]

Is it me, or does anyone else think the puck is too big. I know the game has the puck shadow turned on, but even in the replays the puck looks big, (check out Yzerman's goal on the replay). Also, Pat Quinn looks like he's on steroids (lol) and body checks sound like a car accident. I wonder if Suchy could make an editor to change the ingame sounds? Overall though, the game looks really nice.

[TBNAntti]

Look at those shadows... Eww.


And the shinyness...well...sucks.

[bcrt2000]

Originally Posted by Kenu

Ok, so how is it accessed then?


Ok, so what about NHL 2005?




The videos... well, very impressed with the atmosphere and the cut-scenes. Not that impressed by how the gameplay looks. Also didn't like to hear that they hadn't got any penalties for the picks.

they meant to say NOW instead of NOT... not sure about the picking.. depends on what level they tried to play the game.. because it clearly said in the openice video that youll get more penalties for picks...

[KenuFHR]

I know, I know, I was just having a laugh at their spelling mistakes, 'cause they changed the meaning.

I also know what EA said about the picking, but it still worries me. Remember Game story 2?

[ajhockey]

I hope they fix the dynamic lighting so everyone doesnt look like theyve just been KY wrestling.

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Originally Posted by Sakic19

1. You can turn it off somehow, I know that much.

2. Do you really want to cycle through a few Faceoff options in the what, 6 seconds you have before the ref drops the puck? No, I'd rather be ready and concentrated on the faceoff 6 seconds beforehand.

1. Good

2. Yes, after about a day with the game we'll know the face-off options well enough to select it easily with six seconds before the face-off.

[bcrt2000]

Originally Posted by Antti

Look at those shadows... Eww.

hmm? I think the shadows look FANTASTIC (except for the fact that they put those stupid skate shadows, which are black instead of blue).. they have reduced the shadows from 4 to 2, but i don't think its that big of a deal.. honestly though they need to get some people who are experts at natural lighting, the lights on the players look really ugly, way too shiny (only from close up though, from far away it looks good)...

[TBNAntti]

Originally Posted by bcrt2000

hmm? I think the shadows look FANTASTIC (except for the fact that they put those stupid skate shadows, which are black instead of blue).. they have reduced the shadows from 4 to 2, but i don't think its that big of a deal.. honestly though they need to get some people who are experts at natural lighting, the lights on the players look really ugly, way too shiny (only from close up though, from far away it looks good)...

Shadows look fantastic? I don't think so. They are too obvious, their opacity is too high.

[bcrt2000]

http://www.pittsburghpenguins.com/im...0401/942.f.jpg

Look at the shadows on the ice there, I think the opacity is comparable.. the only thing is maybe the shadows look a little blue, but sometimes on TV thats how it looks (at least on HNIC)