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redwood_tree's NHL 2008 (PS3)
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Summary
In NHL 2008, you have the opportunity to play as a variety of NHL, AHL, International, and other league teams along with custom teams that you can create. The season play is a lot like that of other sports game where you lead your team through a season in the National Hockey League in hope of winning the Stanley Cup. The primary goal of NHL 2008 is to beat your opponent by outscoring them.
Gameplay
While playing the game, I felt very energized. The realistic graphics of the PS3 give the game a feel as if you were actually in the hockey stadium watching the game. The players in the game all look very realistic and just like the actual person. The game design shows the advancement of technology as these players movements get more realistic as well. The story is very unoriginal as is in most sports games. There is very little narrative but more so than previous NHL games. There is not very much wiggle room for the designer of a sports game because it is something that people don't want to have a huge fiction non realistic story behind their sports game.
The gameplay was very fun especially playing with your friends. The goals are very fun and yet not too hard so that sometimes you go back and forth with your friends goal after goal. The game was very interesting to play. There are no time outs which make the game very fast paced with a high level of interaction going on among the players. You have the ability to fight another player also which gives the game a different edge than other sports games. There is quite a bit of flow in the game except for the excessive amount of penalties always seems to slow the game down a considerable amount.
Gameplay
The gameplay the second time around was a little different than the first. First off, the announcers started to get annoying the more I played because of the repeated comments they make time after time. Although, I did have the same energetic feeling I did while playing the game the first time. The characters movements during fights was something I tried to pay more attention to which showed me the bad mechanics of the fights the game presents to the player.
The game was just as fun to play though because you still have the competitive aspect with your friends. The game got pretty intense with last second goals, overtime, shootouts, and rematch after rematch. The game was able to keep my interest through both game logs which only a few games have the ability to do. The social interactions between me and my friends was just as intense as before and each game got a little more intense. The only problem with the flow of the game is that the shortest game length is 5 minute quarters making the game last very long and breaks in between games very long.
Design
The most innovative element that this game adds is the new shot stick. This new feature lets the player use the right joy stick on the ps3 controller to control where they would like the shot to go and the power of the shot. This was not in the previous NHL games where you just used square and circle to shoot making the power of the shot to it's own odds. The aiming of the shot stick is also key because it allows you to choose where you shoot making the game and goals more personal.
Level design in a sports game is key because it is one screen and one arena for a whole game, therefore, the designer must give the player an esthetically pleasing arena to play the game in. I feel the designers of this game did a great job at achieving this because they make the stadiums look very realistic. One friend playing with me commented on the Colorado Avalanche arena looking exactly like the actual stadium with similar ads and such.
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redwood_tree's NHL 2008 (PS3)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 19 March, 2008
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