DEFENSE...DEFENSE...DEFENSE

User Rating: 9.5 | NHL 09 X360
By ferrari_tom | Review Date:
One of the best sports games ever created, NHL 09 finally realizes the importance and realism in the defensive aspect of the game, adding a more effective poke check and the innovative 'stick-lift'. For once in the game, if you play a sound defensive game, you have a good chance at keeping your goals against average low. Goaltenders don't simply go on their knees and let goals in glove side like Carey Price against the Flyers in 08. Offensively however is my only bicker, as it seems they too have made puck control a more realistic task. In the shootout you simply can't blaze from forehand to backhand to forehand...etc and top-shelf it automatically. Too many moves will make you more prone to losing the puck (as evidence with Peter the Great missing a wide open cage after a simple forehand-backhand attempt).

The Be a Pro Mode is very interactive and can have you sucked in for days making it through the AHL, waiting for your call to the big leagues.

All in all, an extremely addictive and enjoyable NHL game that ties together some of the most important aspects of the game and makes it seem as though you really are a superstar.

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