NHL 2002

Discount Price: $8.48

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Customer Reviews:

This game is cool! [Posted on 2002-05-29]
This game is a great game for my whole family! My son has told me about it. He said the graphics were great, even with the on-play-player-detail down alot. The gameplay is extremely great. With the on-play-player-detail down, it is fast. Very fast. It works on Windows 98 perfectly. You can make your created player a star with all ratings up, and take your team from the cellar to the cup. It is also cool that you get an Upper Deck NHL trading card with it. One package has a Mario Lemieux autographed card, so you can get an autographed card with a cool game! My son owns NHL 2000 on PS1, and he likes that game. He says this is a 1000% improvement from NHL 2000!!!!!!! Three words: BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!

"...with a Howitzer!" [Posted on 2002-05-30]
Everyone who knows video games knows that EA Sports are always the leaders in sports games of all kinds. Ice hockey is no exception, and they've put out the best hockey games on the market since the early 90's. No other company has captured the feel and the intensity of the "coolest game on earth" with such precision, and it seems each year they find a way to outdo themselves. And they've done it again with NHL 2002.

So what's new this year? Well, for starters, the players have all new and even more realistic animations: there are more types of passes, dekes, checks, and goal celebrations, to name a few. Almost every player in the NHL has their real-life mug in this game, and the faces react with even more expression to every event. The "game story" feature gives the game a more "TV broadcast" feel (the highlights are hit-and-miss, though). You've now got a breakaway and save cam, which puts you right over the shoulder of either the shooter or the goalie as it happens. It takes some getting used to, but if you find it annoying you can turn it off. The "emotion meter" actually pumps up your players as the momentum shifts, and they'll play better if it's peaked. You can even collect Upper Deck NHL cards and use them to increase your players' stats. This just adds to an already great game; you've still got the season mode, create-a-player, and all the rest from previous games, too. But best of all...now, at last, you can play ONLINE. Finally, you can see just how good you truly are by taking on anyone in the world. These guys ain't the innovators for nothing! Of course, everything graphics, sound, and stat-wise is just as spectacular as always. You're definitely there as it happens. And, there's the return of Mario Lemieux...
Great as this game is, though, I actually found a couple of faults with it. Standing out the most is the color commentary. While it's humorous at first, it gets very repetitive very quickly. (Bring back Darrell Reaugh! Or John Davidson at least...) Good thing you can turn it off. Also, if you're new to the NHL series, get ready for pain. They've turned up the AI this year, and even on medium difficulty, I got bounced around a lot no matter which team I used or who I was playing. Start out on easy or even beginner mode and learn the basics first. Another big one is that even though you can create a whole team from complete scratch, you still can't take it through the season mode. You can still take it online or play it in a regular game, but I'd love to put a team together and take the Stanley Cup with it.
On the whole, EA Sports has delivered again, and hockey fans and gamers around the world can now rejoice. Don't miss out on this one. The world is watching you...

Second only to the Great One himself. [Posted on 2002-09-27]
Initially, this game looks a lot like its predecessor, NHL 2001, but once I started to explore the game more, I was amazed at how indepth this game is. It is everything anyone could want in a hockey game. Creating a dynasty, participating in a draft and creating your own team with a fantasy draft are just a few of the things that are like a dream come true. I could not believe the diversity in the commentary, I have played over 500 games and still hear new stuff. NHL 2002 is a massive improvement over NHL 2001, new in-game features along with elimination of some errors in the last one make this a very enjoyable game.

As far as graphics, sound and all around control and gameplay, NHL 2002 is very well put together. The graphics are some of the best in the business and the sounds are very accurate to the real thing. Controls do take a little time to get used to and can seem a bit complicated at first, but the basics are simple and the more complicated controls come with experience like any game. Gameplay is smooth, nothing negative worth mentioning. There is a very high replay value due to all the different options and ability to play ten consecutive seasons with one team.

The one down side to this game is that eventually NHL 2003 is going to come out and hopefully be bigger and badder than this one. So the best bet is to search for this in a bargain bin and pick up a real [bargain] of a game. I give my compliments to EA Sports on this one, They Shoot...They Score!

the best there is for pc(except for nhl 2003) [Posted on 2002-10-23]
This game is kool. With really kool camera angles, a hit camera, a save camera and a breakaway camera you cant go wrong. Make yourself as good as you wanna be. Control your favorite team. Have nhl cards to boost your players and special cards that let you celebrate after a goal, have an automatic penalty shot or make someone on the other team set out of the game(try it on lemieux in game 7 of the stanley cup playoffs and win!)
buy this game! oh yeah, GO CAPS!!

Lots of fun, but one flaw [Posted on 2003-01-01]
For all you fans of the series from EA Sports hockey, NHL 2002 is one of the best games yet. Almost everything about this game is cool. The graphics are awsome and the players are realistic. Even the crowd is into he game. This is an improvement over NHL 2001. I find only one flaw. The commentary done by don Taylor is just plain stupid. O.K., to some people, his jokes are mildly funny the first time you hear them and then you get tired of them Then there are people like me who just wish he would say something relivent for once. Other than the commentary, I highly recommend this game to anyone.

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