If there’s one thing sports fans love more than paying for an overpriced beer at the game it’s wearing their team’s jersey. NHL 2K10 by 2K Sports will debut on September 15 and aims to bring a true-as-possible hockey experience to gamers across all three home consoles. The development team for 2K10 sat down with a group of journalists on a conference call to discuss the direction of this installment in the NHL 2K franchise.
Looking back at 2008’s NHL 2K9 development, Ben Bishop, producer for both NHL 2K9 and 2K10, described the experience as challenging. It’s the first time the development team has worked with the game’s new code base and their first venture, and hockey’s first venture, on the Wii.
When it was time to start on NHL 2K10 Bishop said “We [the development team] were really excited right from the beginning to see what we could do. I think we’re all really happy with the final product.” Since the majority of sports game releases are annual it’s a constant struggle to improve upon the last game. The development team made it apparent the focus for NHL 2K10 were the graphics, fine tuning the control scheme and updating the online multiplayer.
Bishop says gamers can expect a big improvement in the graphics over last year’s NHL 2K9. “We have a brand new player model. The player’s proportions, uniforms and smaller details look a lot better” Bishop says, “We redid all of our player likenesses. I think there are so many players in the game that look spot on.”
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