
This isn't a list of nice-to-have details or options that were in the series two or three editions ago that folks have asked to return. You now begin by picking an NHL team, or by letting a random CPU team draft you. The Memorial Cup tryout period is gone.You only play in the NHL you cannot play for minor league teams.No option to sim ahead to the next shift.Players sent down to the minors do not accumulate any season stats.Cannot play the AHL games for your chosen franchise.Yearly draft is fully automated by the CPU.Practice mode is now limited to one skater vs.No season mode (you can only play seasons in Be A GM, which is limited to NHL teams).No Online Team Play (when this is patched into the game later this year, it will use real NHL players and teams).
Here is a list of features that were present in NHL 14 but missing from NHL 15, per the Operation Sports community. Well, I have a full copy of NHL 15 on PlayStation 4, and I can confirm everything that OS says isn't in the game isn't in the game. The omissions are so severe that some have questioned whether the NHL 15 released to subscribers in the EA Access program's pre-release window is different from the full edition launching on Tuesday - i.e.

They're all lengthy and mind-blowing.Īnd yes, this is for the full version. On Thursday, Operation Sports, which is basically The Sporting News of this video game genre, published a by-now notorious list of features that had been in NHL 14, but are missing from the early-release version of NHL 15 that went out to EA Access subscribers on Xbox One on Thursday. When it comes to features gone missing from one edition to the next, NHL 15 is the mother of the disappeared. But that's not what hockey fans are seeing in the latest edition of EA Sports' NHL series. Sports video games often subtract, contract and consolidate some features from year to year, rankling a few diehards in the name of making the game easier to play and understand for more newcomers.
