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/ Adam Richardson

NHL 13 to Feature Major Changes to the Way You Play

NHL 13 brings its biggest changes in years with True Performance Skating and a new EA Sports Hockey I.Q. AI system that reshape how the game plays.

Sports games can get stale, leaning on cosmetic tweaks and roster updates year to year. NHL 13 is trying to break that pattern with its biggest changes in six years. The headline is True Performance Skating, a reworked skating engine, paired with a new AI system called EA Sports Hockey I.Q. Together they promise to genuinely change how the game plays, not just how it looks.