ICE-Q

ICE-Q is true hockey intelligence

A trio of new features gives players more control over the action than ever before, a major upgrade to the reliability and accuracy of CPU players, and a massive new animation set that makes gameplay a more seamless and realistic experience.

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Next-Gen Vision Control

An on-ice evolution that provides fresh abilities, improvements, and a user-initiated skating mode that ups the responsiveness, explosiveness, and expression on the ice for human and AI players alike.

Empowered AI

A completely overhauled AI player system heightens CPU skaters’ awareness of other players and positioning on the ice, giving them more fluid and helpful reads to execute in a true-to-life fashion, keeping your tactics in motion during high-paced action.

Reactive Actions

A series of brand-new animations make skaters more responsive in critical situations, giving them more urgency and, ultimately, more reliability during plays.

Skill Based One-timers

Read the attacking zone, find an open teammate, and be rewarded with a deadly one-timer you can see, feel, and hear. Skill Based One-Timers create true gameplay tension as offensive excitement and expectation mix with defensive concern and anticipation.