It’s evident NHL 27 is a leap year for the franchise as it doesn’t innovate on the modes and immersion already present. Instead, it soft-launches patches that barely pass as a winter update.
Insomniac once again captures what works about a famous comic book superhero, but that makes this a very different game from the studio's prior releases in the genre.
Assassin's Creed is the type of game that comes along only rarely -- a title that innovates in so many areas it helps to set a new bar in various aspects of gameplay, storytelling, visuals, and controls.