And if you want to fine-tune, the sliders for a multitude of gameplay tweaks are still there as well. But having said all that, NHL 17 offers a rather great and straightforward way to tweak your gameplay experience through a series of settings, from arcade to realistic. The loosened up puck physics will also be a cause of many concerns and there are ugly goals that bounce in because the AI doesn't react or mishandles it. They'll abruptly change directions, slow down, or fail to intercept an easy pass.
There are many occasions where your teammates - as well as the opposition - make poor decisions and generally aren't very helpful in developing a play. Despite the strong onwards momentum that your virtual opponents enjoyed at the tail end of last console generation, since the series jumped to current gen they seemingly went back to basics. Part of the reason the on-ice product can be awkward is the AI. Some changes have been made to the goaltenders, in both their behavior and animations that cause a few new scoring opportunities as well as shutdowns of moves that worked in the past. Stick lifting was outright broken at launch, and still remains troublesome a few weeks in hitting is disappointingly weak. The puck feels looser, and so oftentimes it's just a scramble to regain control, rather than letting you focus on strategy or skilled plays. Players can be quick getting up and down the ice once you use the hustle, but a finesse movement of the puck is still lacking once you're trying to setup some slick moves in the offensive zone. The somewhat sluggish pace and players feeling like they weigh a ton of bricks when turning is still the defacto experience, as it was last year. New this year is an added emphasis on battles in front of the net, but these are quite situational and rarely occurduring offline play. The On-Ice trainer continues to helpfully try and teach some moves to new players, but a better tutorial, or FIFA-like skill games, would have been nice to have. Players looking strictly for more ice time with the franchise will find a slew of additions and tweaks in NHL 17's gameplay, but nothing exactly groundbreaking.
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