Abstrakt: Sometimes you get games long after they’ve been released, and are obligated to review them. This is one of those cases.Shoot hard, hit hard, skate fast. Those are things that make NHL hockey great. They are also things that make NHL 11 great, but they ...
Abstrakt: The hockey season has begun again, and NHL 11 adds a new yearly title to the major team sport with perhaps the longest history of being represented in video games. Sure, maybe the first few were glorified versions of Pong, but we’ve moved well past tha...
EA Sports' NHL series is an impressively dominating sports franchise. It has been running almost as long as Madden and FIFA and despite some stiff competition from 2K Sports' NHL 2K franchise it has remained the best ice hockey game series around. ...
Abstrakt: For the past few years, EA’s NHL hockey series has been one of the most consistently outstanding annual titles in all of gaming. It’s gotten so good, in fact, that this year its chief opponent, 2K Sports, has chosen to forego an Xbox 360/PS3 release o...
Abstrakt: The NHL series from EA Sports is one of those titles that releases a few long weeks before the actual season of the sport begins. As such, for the majority of the month in September, the early adopters cling to get their copies and build their anticipa...
Abstrakt: Well the day has finally come. EA has finally scared poor 2K Sports away from the big boy game systems. 2K Sports once ruled the rink with their hockey game. Their gameplay and classic teams were the best 4 years ago. But the mighty sports powerhouse o...
Abstrakt: With 2K Sports focusing their NHL 2K11 title on Wii this year, EA is the only company producing a "current-gen" hockey game on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with NHL 11. And as true with yearly iterations of sports titles, you'll find a couple of improvem...
Abstrakt: The developers of the NHL series for EA Sports have not only provided hockey fans with the best interpretation of their sport, but have done so well over the last two year they have earned best sports game of the year two years in a row. The tireless e...
Abstrakt: NHL 10 bedazzled us last year with its unmatched realism and genuinely fun gameplay, proving that EA Sports had finally accomplished the unthinkable, topping 2K Sports in a field that it had once dominated. Now, with NHL 2K11 out of the way on the Wii...
Abstrakt: It’s not very often that a hockey star reaches his prime after 20 seasons in the league, but that’s exactly the kind of precedent that EA Sport’s seminal NHL franchise is achieving. With NHL 11, the long-running series comes closer to mirroring the rea...