This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Hence the introduction of a game mode called “Ones”: a 1-on-1-on-1 format, where three players play on a rink set on a mountain lake, competing to control the puck and then score on a computer-controlled goalie. We’re almost piloting new concepts for the league.” Greats from the past like Wayne Gretzky, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Jacques Plante and Bobby Clarke are included in EA Sports’ NHL 19. “We have a lot more latitude within the game to portray things that the NHL can’t portray in their arenas. “The league wants to find new fans,” Ho said.

And they’re also looking at translating that into letting gamers impose their own personalities into the game. It’s about tapping into the personalities present in hockey, many of whom aren’t always that visible. The NHL development team thought of playing on ponds, the camaraderie of playing on a team, of knowing your own role and personality within hockey. “It enabled us to go further into that, to expand the definition of hockey beyond the NHL and into hockey wherever it’s played, by whomever.”

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