AI issues and the lack of any significant new features have NHL 2K9 skating backward this year.

NHL 2K9 Hands-On Although 2K's hockey franchise has struggled in recent years, its debut on the Wii may change the way sports games are made for the console.

Both companies usher in the start of the professional hockey season with the releases of NHL 09 and NHL 2K9 respectively. Which one has the edge? Here's a closer look: 'NHL 09' ...

For its <i>NHL 2K9</i> game, 2K Sports uses dozens of motion-capture cameras to film Columbus Blue Jackets' Rick Nash to get realistic 3D video of his signature style.

Imagine our shock and surprise when we discovered that the decidedly different control scheme NHL 2K9 utilizes actually works pretty well.

Online? NHL 2K9 for Wii takes a lot of the core ideas in classic 2K hockey, and blends them together in what should be a pretty impressive first effort on the system.

On the surface, NHL 2K9 is your standard hockey sim. The full gamut of modes, rule settings, rosters, unlockable teams and jerseys, local multiplayer options, and so forth is present and accounted ...

Ultimately, the AI within NHL 2K9 is highly inferior compared to past iterations, and as a result was one of the things that left me extremely unsatisfied.

2K Sports' E3 presentation debuting NHL 2K9 began with a strange message: "We want to bring the fun back to hockey games." That seems strange, considering that last year's IGN Sports Game of the ...

NHL 2K9 offers brand-new gameplay features including user-friendly controls, expanded superstar moves, friendly Zamboni® competitions, a revamped fighting engine, custom Stanley Cup ...

Visual Concepts has been tasked with rebuilding the experience from the ground up to make NHL 2K9 more gamer-friendly. "We've taken a little bit of a different approach, with a new development team.

NHL 2K9 has implemented Pro Stick control – or, for those of you who haven’t gone to PR school, a virtual copy of EA’s long-since-awesome Shot Stick.