The greatest game on ice!
3 letters sum up the game for me and they are B, A, P. I love the Be A Pro mode, i've barely touched the Dynasty or Online yet because this is consuming my life. It was quite difficult to get used to playing for me, and i would consider myself a pro in NHL 08, so if you expect too go into this game and do what you did last year, the results most likely aren't going to be quite the same. It took me 55 games and 56 goals to finally get called up to the Pittsburgh Penguins (Superstar difficulty) so expect to be down in the minors for many hours probably if you use those settings. It took me 20 games to finally truly get the hang of it so maybe you can get up much faster if you are a quick learner. The Baby Pens only won like 25% of their games when I was down there, it gets frustrating but it's so much fun to feel like you are actually in control of your destiny instead of playing as the team.
I don't have much else to say, the game is worth the $60, it's much more than just a roster update and more realistic. The gameplay is a bit slower than last year and i had to sleep on it to finally get used to the new skating and when i woke up the next day i was much more used to it. The custom audio is wonderful, i ripped my own playlist for the menu and for my ingame music so i get pumped up now when i play (not that the music it comes with is bad, i like it, but i like my own more)..if only GTA IV would have done this. As everyone said, there are framerate issues sometimes on replays like if you were to run Vista on 1gb memory..not very good. But I can see past that and the game is almost perfect for me. 9.5/10!!