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Originally Posted by Russic
Looks pretty cool. A few things I noticed:
- the players seem to have facial animations now. I think it was 2002 where the game had marc crawford in it and he always had a goofy ass grin on his face. Sorry, slight tangent, just got me thinking.
- You can shoot from your knees? That could be pretty cool.
- I could be looking too deep into this, but in this crowdshot (I didn't capture everything for size reasons) I don't notice any boston fans waving towels (only blackhawk fans). If that's the case I'm very impressed.
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Well, Boston fans are still jumping up and down cheering for the same thing Chicago fans are, sans towels.
Watching the crowd erupt after the Ovehckin goal means its certainly taking a step in the right direction for crowd dynamics, but still a whole lot of retro jerseys (and opponent team jerseys) in the crowd shots.
A minor annoyance, really, but still, other then the riviallry games, and the sunbelt games when Flames fan go to Phoenix, you see a hanfull of opponents jerseys in the 17K crowd, not 10 a section.
Fighting and facewashes look cool, and improved shoulder saves, although I hope the turn and swat are toned down, like the stack the pads play was this year after a patch, but the pop up and trickle down the back happened almost every game...sometimes it bounced in, sometimes it got a quick whistle.
Hopefully the cheat goals are even harder to master (CM Punk and I were down 8-0 last night not even done the first period after 5 "small toe drag, far post high" shots and 3 cross crease pass cheese goals) then this year, although that may be asking too much too. At least, lets hope they're different cheats so that it takes 6 months for them to be mastered, not carrying over from this year right away in October.
Sounds like some have their "fantasy" element to this game too..Luongo hoisting the Cup is one thing, Moreau is quite another.