This game is awesome on next gen ! I love the harder Passing . No more easy cross cress passes . You have to strategically place your passes . Work the team like real hockey . I feel the ones who gave it a bad review . Like the arcade style of the years past . I'm so glade they went this route . It's beautiful but most importantly the gameplay is just about spot on . Once again i play on a Series S . I haven't played the last gen and i heard it pretty much a pass . But i am a simulation sports gamer . I hate arcade style sports games . Im glade they slowed them down and made things more real no more half ice passing or shooting and scoring from the blue line . It takes skill to orcastrate a drive and score down the ice . I love the way the puck bounces , the goalie animations, the skill stick is buttery smooth . Also every other poke check doesn't draw a penalty like years past which pisses everyone off when there in the box all the dam time for what they thought was clean poke check .that doesn't happen in this game its well balanced. It's a great game 8.5/10 !