Title: NHL 2k6
System: Xbox360, PS2, Xbox
Players: 2
ESRB: E
Summary:
NHL 2K6 continues its legacy on the ice with more control, more emotion and more detail than ever before. Take command of tape-to-tape passing, behind-the-net plays and precision give-and-go attacks. Dominate the ice with NHL caliber goaltending, skating, checking and puck handling with the deeply enhanced animation system.
Review:
NHL 2k6… I like hockey. I like the sport on TV, I like playing it in real life and video games. I have been playing a lot of NHL 08. So I decided to get this title in hopes it was similiar. But, it isn’t, you are lucky if it reminds you of Wayne Gretzkey 98 for the N64. Yes, the graphics and game play are that horrible.
The controls are clunky, the menus are poorly designed and the game is just boring. While it is more arcadey than EA’s take on it, but just doesn’t cut it. The ice looks good, it is shiney and reflective, looks like you’d expect ice to look like, too bad the same couldn’t be said for the character models on the ice… While the cutscenes, the players look good, there are odd reverse shadows, but the faces are more detailed and the clothings has great texture, just makes you sad that the actual game play graphics look like the 64 take.
One thing that I have heard, is that you need an HD tv that supports 720p. Or else the game looks the exact same as the xbox version. For those of you with your regular CRT TV’s, it is a huge difference that you will surely notice.
One neat aspect of the game that I did like, was that you could take over the goalie. But that got confusing, as the controls would reverse, and while you were trying to move right, your character was fish flopping out on the ice.
I did not like the game, and if this was the first Hockey game that I played, I can almost certainly say that I would never pick up another hockey game again.
I give NHL 2k6 a 1/10
