EA Sports should be thankful that 2K hasn’t thrown their hat into the NHL arena because NHL 15 has gotten horrible reviews and they are scrambling to fix many of the shortcomings.
NHL 15 hit stores today and already EA Sports has sent out an update that will add features to the game for Xbox One & PS4 users.
Polygon.com prevued the game and gave it a 5.5 rating out of 10. They also were the first to report the new NHL 15 updates:
EA Sports’ NHL development team responded last night to fans’ unhappiness that a wide array of features from NHL 14 have not carried over to NHL 15. Taken one way, the news shows developers always meant for some things to be included. Taken another, they’ve admitted they’re releasing an incomplete product tomorrow.
Online team play — in which all 12 players on the ice may be controlled by individual human players — and a full amateur draft in the game’s Be A GM career mode will be patched into NHL 15 in October, producer Sean Ramjagsingh wrote in a post on Operation Sports.
Neither are present in the game launching tomorrow. At launch, a draft is simulated in the background of the Be A GM career mode, and online play is strictly a 1-versus-1 affair.
These are key features that sports fans look forward to when buying a game and it’s mind boggling that EA Sports would release a game with such few features. These are often forgiven for the first year of a console but both systems are a year old and developers should be able to use most of their capabilities.
EA Sports needs to pay attention to the details because their competitors are quickly surpassing them in the eyes of critics and fans.