One of the new features announced for EA Sports’ next-gen NHL 15 is ‘Authentic Arenas’ for each team, which EA hopes will represent the unique feel and experience of playing in different buildings across North America.
The power of the next-gen consoles finally allows the NHL franchise to capture every detail of an NHL arena. Unique arena elements such as 19,000+ seat capacities, dynamic lighting, player entrance tunnels and much more are all captured with a level of detail not possible on the previous generation. This summer, NHL 15 will make home games will truly feel like home. (via)
EA plans on releasing renderings of these Authentic Arenas throughout the summer, and they’ve provided us with early looks at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena and New York City’s Madison Square Garden this week.
While both looks are pretty damn impressive and provide a pretty amazing level of arena detail and personality, I’m hesitant to trust renderings this early. Often times these early previews don’t accurately represent what ultimately winds up in the actual game, so I’m cautiously excited about these.
If EA can manage to turn these early looks into a true representation of what we’ll see when the game releases this fall I’ll be very, very happy.
Update [6/17/2014]: This week, EA has posted renderings of Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh and Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Update [7/2/2014]: TD Garden in Boston & Pepsi Center in Denver
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