Hasa

NHL 18 continues the same trend previous EA's NHL games have, a rushed game with the main focus to make the most of micro transactions. The same problems are still in this game that were in the last 10 installments of the series, sticks go through players and pucks, connection issues, freezes, glitches, passes sometimes lock to a completely wrong player, unpredictable AI (sometimes makes **** decisions uncontrollable by the player and sometimes the AI is OP as is witnessed by so many players letting the AI play defense). These same problems have haunted NHL games for about a decade now and there has been little to no attempts to fix them why? The only game mode EA really focuses on is HUT and the reason is the obvious revenue from micro transactions from that game mode but even that one is far from flawless because it has the exact same weird problems as the rest of the game modes, but at least that one keeps getting updated but mostly only with new card packs to buy... It's not all bad tho. The graphics and animation are great, 3 on 3 game mode is fun as hell (granted, it also has the very same problems). If i was new to the series i would have given the rating of 7 but since i have played NHL games hardcore since NHL 07 i can't set aside the very same problems this game series has had since that game. They have had 11 years to fix these errors, yet they never do the only things they add are like new skating physics etc. which is nice as well of course but skating was never the problem anyway... Things like that should be the last thing to fine tune in a mess **** like this. The regular gamer wouldn't give this harsh review but even a new player would notice some of these issues after a few hours of playing.