EA's NHL hockey comes to Wii in September

The Associated Press




Published: 31 May 2010

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Wayne Gretzky admits: The Great One is just an average hockey player.
Well, not really. Only when it comes to EA Sports' NHL franchise, based on the Nintendo Wii in September, just in time for the start of next season.
"I would be what you think 10 goal scorers, if I was comparing this to the NHL," Hockey Hall of Fame player in an interview with the Associated Press, jokingly.
It is not too good, because accumulated during his 21 years in Gretzky NHL for a long list of achievements and awards and is the only player ever to reach 200 points in a season.
Gretzky is also one of the first hockey player, his name with a video game are associated. He skates like working with EA in its first version of its NHL for the Wii with NHL Slapshot. "
For sports fans who grew up dreaming of being Gretzky, this is their chance - hockey sticks and all.
To say the producers of the franchise: "NHL Slapshot" is mainly due to some of the best features of its best-selling Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is based team-mates, but takes the game further with a hockey stick as a controller.
"It's one of those games that you can sit down and could play for hours. It is very realistic ... almost like playing in the NHL," Gretzky said. "People love to sit and do as much as video games, but also the love of order and the way they are really part of the game."
Gretzky said games have a long way gone, since she graced the cover of the Nintendo Wayne Gretzky Hockey "come in 1991. Sure, the graphics are better, the game is more realistic and players have more control simulated about her colleagues on the TV screen.
"It is like the game of hockey itself, improve the game every 10 years," said Gretzky. "There is no doubt the game is now better, which is exciting for everyone."
For the control of the players, the Wii Remote and Nunchuk into a hockey stick shape blade chassis complete with a foam stick. Hockey players use the stick to taking pictures on the net, opposing players move and control the boards, or of another player to increase stick. Players also have the opportunity to play as a goalkeeper with the Wii controller like a glove and blocker.
"And" this is a natural extension of the Wii use Motion to make a hockey stick, "said David Littman, Creative Director at EA's NHL, the one his was the most expensive hockey sticks, cut and channel-controller on the stick with tape one to make a prototype.
"Whether you are 6 years or 60 years if you at the stick and put it in your hands, and take your Slapshot in the first place, no matter how old you are, is this incredible experience will be like."
Highlights include the split-screen and mini-games and "Pee Wee to Pro" mode, the user can use a version of 10 years, which itself plays on a backyard rink and create make their way into the NHL. Players can choose, as a version of Peewee Gretzky and some other big stars of ice hockey. Gretzky play also serves as a trainer in the "Pee Wee to Pro" mode, players guess to reach the NHL.
"If a person who is loved hockey ... Wayne is pretty big as it gets," said producer Joe Nickolls.
And with the new EA title again face one of his main opponents to speak, so.
EA's NHL series is one of the five best sports games sales in the world. For years, both EA and 2K Sports has created competing NHL franchise for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Then, 2K Sports has decided to concentrate its efforts on the Wii for 2011 NHL abandon versions for other consoles, at least the year.
"We make games for consoles, if we believe it is right and we will make the best game," said Nickolls. "Certainly there is competition from many different players to all of our sports games. Yes, we pay attention to them, but in reality does not change the way they do it."
The technology for the Wii version can be planned can be a precursor of versions of motion control technology for both PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360.
"This is a test really well," said Littmann.






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