I bought my copy of NHL 12 the day after it came out. The mountains of Western North Carolina are not exactly a hot bed of hockey and we usually do not get that EA series in until after it has been out for about a week.
I love my sports games to be as realistic as possible. That is one of the reasons that I have always enjoyed the EA Sports hockey franchise. When they included the AHL,CHL and the European Leagues last year, that just put the game over the top in my opinion. NHL 12 is no different.
I always start a franchise in the "Be A GM" mode and this year I decided to stay with the hometown team, the Carolina Hurricanes. I usually pick the Philadelphia Flyers. The Hurricanes have alot of good, young talent and a great goalie in Cam Ward.
I naturally went out and lost the first game I played, 3-2 in OT to the Winnipeg Jets. I gave up 2 goals in the last two minutes and then the OT game winner 2 minutes into OT. I was hooked. The game does so many things, I still have not figured them all out yet but I am working on it.
The only thing that the game did that I did not like was that it froze up on me. I read somewhere on the internet that someone else had said they thought it froze up more often than normal. I am a stats freak and I hate getting about halfway thru a great game and then losing everything like that. All of the positives far outweigh that one negative.
