[Max Cow Disease]

I've never fully understood the negativity. I was a big fan of the 2K series in its early days and it was definitely good having a couple of competing games on the market, but EA's version of hockey is the best form that video game hockey has ever taken in its history up until now. Whether or not the series has somewhat stagnated a bit due to lack of competition is up for debate, but the game plays extremely well and looks good, so to be so dismissive on the basis of a 30 second trailer seems a bit strange. The high fidelity of the game nowadays means that inherently most improvements that the series makes will be on the basis of diminishing returns and seem a bit iterative.

That being said, it would be nice to see them try something out of left field, and there's always room for improvement in certain areas. The game still needs far more authentic faces. Some of the prominent ones are obvious and quite well done (Johnny, Gio, etc.), but it seems like a lot of players still have generic ones, and if they've been individually rendered, they're done poorly so it's tough to tell anyway.