

Do not buy this game if you care at all about EA's complete negligence towards any mode other than HUT, or about combating micro-transactions in gaming. I have purchased every NHL game from 2001-2023, but I will be boycotting this franchise until HUT is removed. They could then completely separate the development team who works on the actual NHL game from those who work on the absolute PoS mode known as HUT which only exists because of the profit it generates from morons who are actually dumb enough to spend real money on intangible pieces of code who's value immediately becomes zero when the next game is released. The only solution I can see is to take the pay-to-win micro-transaction cancer that is HUT and make it a free to download entity on it's own. The only solution I can There is no excuse for the state of this game and complete reluctance towards improving any mode other than HUT. There is no excuse for the state of this game and complete reluctance towards improving any mode other than HUT. Hopefully an update adds the new stuff they promised, but with EA, you literally have to take that with a grain of salt. It's essentially like they have like 25 or so developers making this game and all the rest just focusing on MADDEN and FIFA. I only play franchise mode and other offline modes, as Ultimate team continues to be absolute bogus. The reason I bought it was to play a NHL game without any of the game breaking bugs that occur in NHL 22, there are some bugs, but nothing crazy like 22. The soundtrack is horrendous, terrible and loud. The menus look the same, they just added a new color overlay, so there's no overhaul of the menu. There's no option to have a full presentation or condensed, no goalie intro, no new stats look, none of the new animations.

Nothing groundbreaking like in Madden or Fifa. But as last year and the years before, they just added the bare minimum. Crowds are a lot louder, the strategies are there, It's a little faster going through the menus and loading into games. There are some things that were in the deep dive video. Crowds are a lot louder, the strategies are It's not terrible, it's just lackluster.
