It didn’t take too long before I was catching the drift of Canada’s biggest sporting export once again. After years spent away from the ice, the in-game trainer, telling you where to pass, how to pass, when your shot is good, was more than welcome. My basic understanding before picking up the digital hockey stick was that I had to take that stick, hit the puck into the net, and occasionally punch people in the face. NHL 17’s biggest achievement is offering an easy route back into what had become something of a foreign sport to me, which is probably the case with plenty of others this year, too.
However, as someone approaching the world of simulated ice hockey for the first time since I had hairs on parts of my body other than my scalp, NHL 17 is a game that is difficult to lay into. As true innovation seems to be a thing of the past in the cyclical nature of sports games, incremental changes in the way things are done are more the order of the day, much to the chagrin of long-time franchise fans. Have sports games plateaued? It seems more so than ever that people are criticising yearly sports titles as being nothing other than roster updates with them intent to focus on glitches and issues, which is their right to do so.
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