These features and more are available now in EA SPORTS NHL 25, with more post-launch content to be announced soon.

NHL 25 delivers some improvements, but not nearly enough to justify the cost.

While they still do not always make the plays you want they are much more reactive compared to recent NHL games. Hitting is much improved, it is not as easy as it was in NHL 24 and smaller players can no longer obliterate players significantly bigger than them.

The EA Sports NHL franchise is exclusively on the eighth generation of video game consoles (PS5 and Xbox Series X) for the first time. That allows the developers at EA Vancouver to focus solely on maximizing the power and technology of these consoles rather than having to worry about also accommodating the previous generation.