Beyond a strong recreation of the game’s lightning-fast action, NHL 17 adds a deeper GM mode, a number of minor league teams that haven’t been in the game before, and a tournament based on the World Cup of Hockey, which Canada won in the real world back in September. Much like the NHL itself, which only now feels fully recovered from the disastrous lockout that killed the entire 2004-2005 season (and that’s despite a lockout that saw almost half the 2012-2013 season wiped out), NHL 17 is finally starting to recover the momentum that was lost from the ill-fated NHL 15. Our list might play a little fast and loose with the concept of sports, but it’s important to acknowledge the fine work and tremendous effort that goes into this overlooked corner of the industry. And although sports videogames are regularly some of the best-selling and most popular games of the year, they rarely get the respect afforded to games that daringly ask you to kill every last resident of floating, turn-of-the-century sundown towns. “Sportsball” jokes just make you look petty. But also don’t shoot any guff towards those of us who do.
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