We need zoom-slider for camera and injury-slider! The camera angles are too close, you cannot see your defenders on powerplay, which makes passing worthless.
Too many injuries in franchise mode. It's VERY frustrating when all your star-players are gone for 4 months. And players don't recover from injuries in play-offs, but they do get injured! It's stupid to play in Stanley Cup finals with a bunch of minor league players.
-Scoring is too difficult, especially on all-star and hall of famer. The goalie skill slider needs to have more effect, even at minimum it's VERY hard to score more than 3 goals a game.
Also more variety in scoring is needed: most goals are made by one-timer shots and breakaways. Defender shots rarely find their way in the net, and that's quite unrealistic as most goals on powerplay are made that way. Diving shots are too hard to do. And it would be nice, if you could score ANYWHERE on the offense zone (real goalies simply can't block every non-onetimer shot). Sometimes you shoot 4 rebound shots and goalies stop them! It would be nice to have some "cheap" goals sometimes, too.
Goalies need more animations, there are many, but they use only couple of them. They also get up too fast, which is inhuman and unrealistic.
And there needs to be more balanced play between CPU and human. CPU has some great plays, but they get goals dubiously easily. Human player may have up to 30 shots more than CPU, though the match is a close-run (yeah sometimes it's like that in real life, too, but it surely doesn't happen in every other game).
-Improved franchise! It would be great if players would advance when playing in minors. You never use your worst players cause they don't get better. Some budget management would be nice, too.
-More variety in penalties: Only 5 minute penalties are fighting majors. What about spearing? There are no unsportsmanlike, high sticking or misconduct penalties.
-No more cheating computer AI! Even the worst players in the computer controlled team can control the puck so well that you can't get it without a "big hit", and it's almost impossible to poke check the puck off starplayers sticks. By the way, the poke check is useless. You cannot control your player while pokechecking, and it takes about 5 seconds to recover, as does recovering from shot blocking and kneeling. What if you could kneel down as long as you hold the button and get up by releasing it? Same goes with deke moves. It takes several seconds to finish the deke animation: that's annoying when you have a 2-1 situation and can't pass the puck until the deke animation is ended.
-Menus are quite hard to navigate. Why can't you do players edits, trades, line changes and activate/scratch players in same menu?
-Improved fighting. Now the fights are boring and computer can grab your player easily, which you can't do.
-Presentation: More music, licensed maybe? Tracks are ok, but they get repetitive quickly. The graphics are good enough, they don't need a polish, just concentrate improving the gameplay (which is good, but it could be better). More replays, less cut scenes.
-European teams/leagues: SM-liiga (Finland), Elitserien (Sweden)... I know this is wishful thinking, but if EA has them, it means you can get them too? I guess they don't own the license. I am quite sure Kush games would get some assistance from European gamers to get all the values and player information correct.
-It would be a nice touch to have an opportunity to create an own team: shirts, logos, teamname, players...
-We want to play ONLINE in EUROPE!
-POWERPLAY PROBLEMS:
Computer AI gets a huge boost when player has a powerplay. CPU can shoot the puck away too fast, I mean they don't even need to have a proper control over the puck, and whatever their position is, they shoot the puck so high and fast that human player simply can't grab it. They never shoot it away against the boards. These shots should fail sometimes too. Also, CPU ALWAYS intercepts your passes and blocks all shots. You have to have a clear line to the goal if you want to score on PP. That makes defender's shots almost useless. Same thing happens when CPU goalie is down on the ice or getting back between the posts.
And when CPU has powerplay, you can't shoot the puck away as fast as they can in the same situation. CPU can also score easier on PP, and I don't mean good plays, I mean human goalies give easier goals.
EDIT: hiukan lisäyksiä
