The menus still look and feel like they’d work best with a touchscreen or a mouse, but navigation is now more responsive. The rest of the game's user interface has received some big improvements.

As someone who last made their way through the trainer more than a year ago however, it quickly got me back up to speed and learning new skills in NHL 17. The in-game training system is also adaptive and will flip certain hints off as you learn new skills-and if you don't want to see the trainer, you can turn it off completely. If you lose a face-off that felt like it was a sure thing, the trainer will alert you as to why it happened and whether your player's skill was lower than his opponent's or it was just a toss-up. If you went for the puck too early or late in a face-off, it'll let you know. It continues to be a fantastic tool for learning how to perform certain tasks, such as faceoffs and specific dekes, while also telling you why you succeeded or failed. Gameplay can once again be accompanied by the augmented on-ice trainer-which displays information on the players and ice, such as face-off suggestions and shooting lanes-to help you learn all of NHL 17's tricks. Playing goalie is very similar to last year as well, with intuitive controls that make it easy to drop into a butterfly stance, hug the posts, and move from one side of the crease to the other in an attempt to stop those tricky one-timers.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's You feel like you have just the right amount of control over the puck, and you're never left wondering why you lost possession, since taking the puck away from an opponent is also precise and fair. Thankfully, the action on the ice still shines: handling the puck, skating down the ice, and taking that opportune shot is just as great as it was last year. NHL 17 offers modes with some new bells and whistles, but unfortunately, these few additions aren't significant enough to make NHL 17 stand out from the past. It reinstated many of the series’ trademark modes that were removed in the transition to current-generation consoles and introduced an on-ice trainer that made the game much more enjoyable. Last year's NHL 16 marked a return to form for EA's hockey franchise.

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