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# NHL 2012 includes playable female characters
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/nhl-2012-includes-playable-female-characters/
- Published: 2011-09-16T19:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:51:39.000Z
- Description: Well, sort of. The newest installation in EA Sports’ long-running NHL series now offers the ability to, when creating a playable character, to give your avatar a female face. The change— a first for EA Sports— comes at the behest of Lexi Peters, a 14 year-old from Buffalo, New York who wrote the spo
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Well, sort of. The newest installation in EA Sports’ long-running *NHL* series now offers the ability to, when creating a playable character, to give your avatar a female face.

The change— a first for EA Sports— comes at the behest of Lexi Peters, a 14 year-old from Buffalo, New York who wrote the sports gaming powerhouse in protest.

> *NHL* video game creators have decided to introduce female characters in the game, after they received a letter which opened their eyes regarding the needs of their clients. One girl from Buffalo, New York, Lexi Peters, who, at 14 years old, is a fan of the video game, became frustrated of the fact that when playing with her brother, she could not create a female player, to better impersonate herself.

So, a small victory for gaming, but a giant leap for gaming-kind. *NHL 2012* dropped September 13th, and besides for being able to create a female avatar, it should be basically the same game as *NHL 2011*. Not that, as our [review of *NCAA Football ‘12*](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/review-ncaa-football-12?ref=killscreen.com) points out, that’s necessarily a bad thing.

*\-Drew Millard*

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