NHL 07

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Play your style of hockey at both ends of the ice, with on-the-fly coaching
• Control your offensive flow by effortlessly crashing the net, screening the goalie or pinching your defensemen
• Counter the attack by clearing out the crease, setting up a break out for an offensive rush, or clearing the zone
• Incredible new Character animations for goaltending, checking, shooting and passing bring you authentic on-ice action
• An unsurpassed franchise experience hinges a team's success on your ability to schedule workouts, scrimmages and manage team chemistry

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GGQMYG
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 10.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 12, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,590 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #5 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Hockey

Product Description

Platform: PC

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Product Description:

A revolution in hockey gaming. Its dual analog control revolutionizes how hockey video games are played. Organic goalie controls and advanced new features take your game further, for the kind of hockey you've always dreamed of playing. Dynasty with new CBA and Salary Cap Depth Feel Like a GM, without the micro-management New in-game announce team of Gary Thorne and Bill Clement

Product Description

Format: Box
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Platform: Windows

All-New Player-Specific Behaviors!

Product Information

The golden era of hockey videogames is back with NHL 07 brought to you by EA SPORTS. Console hockey now rivals its counterpart on the ice with an unmatched level freedom and control. NHL 07 puts you in total command with a revolutionary new Skill Stick system. Never take your hands off the analog sticks as you take complete control of all skating on the left, and - for the first time in a hockey videogame - passing will use an intuitive motion on the right analog stick to execute with precision. Feel like a part of the team with a level of passing fluidity that allows you to implement a realistic team strategy. Look to your teammates and know how to best use their strengths with New Player-Specific Behaviors. 

Play the game like you do on the ice: Be the Playmaker and find your Sniper open in the slot, or let your Dangler make pylons out of the defense. Off the ice, act as the General Manager in an enhanced Dynasty Mode. Do whatever it takes to meet an owner's expectations by properly managing rosters and using your creativity to fit player salaries under the new cap. Whether you're running the front office or dominating the rink, NHL 07 is the most intuitive and realistic hockey experience ever created.

Product Features

•  Skill Stick Revolution: Experience a realistic sense of team control on the ice. Command every movement and make precise passes by directing the right analog stick towards your intended recipient.

• All-New Player-Specific Behaviors: NHL 07 players act like their real-life counterparts more than ever with six different player types, including Danglers, Playmakers, Snipers, Powe

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worse than NHL04, December 21, 2006

By 

Tempuraki (Forest Hills, NY United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL 07 (CD-ROM)

I never rated anything lower than a 3 star, so when I do it must be really bad. And NHL07 is bad.

There are less options when it comes to player creation than previous versions (NHL04 was the last one I owned and I like it a lot). Graphics isn't much of an improvement. There are some additional modes of play but nothing really interesting. There are bugs like if you press ESC key to get the menu in game, you can only use the keyboard to move the cursor and select options, gamepad and mouse are both disabled. Those are all minor problems compare to the degradation of AI from before.

Some highlights (or lowlights):
- goalies ignores the puck if it's a pass. If you have a player going behind the net, pass to him and see the goalie do nothing.
- When I turn the difficulty level up from normal to difficult, what I found was that instead of making the AI smarter, EA simply decided to make AI invincible on offense. Defenders would just bounce off the AI player carrying the puck. I would have surround the AI player with 3-4 players of my own, all checking/hooking/grabbing the jersey/chopping at his stick. No matter, the AI player would just spin free from everyone, wind up the slapshot and scores from 20ft away from the net. That doesn't make game difficult, just frustrating!
- Besides the invincibility upgrade AI received on offense, absolute nothing was different between the normal and higher difficulty levels. AI defense is still weak and if you have no trouble scoring at normal, you won't have any problem at difficult.

On the bright side, you do get the updated roster. Yay.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not great but not totally awful..., September 23, 2006

By 

GC "GRC" (Tampa Bay, FL United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL 07 (CD-ROM)

The formerly acclaimed franchise mode is back with new features like minor league management and the implementation of the salary crap. But how do you turn the salary cap off? You can't... Also, improving your team in the franchise mode is much too difficult. The gameplay is similar to last years but a few issues have been fixed like your goalie is maybe a little better and you can now score on first shots occasionally.One thing that was not fixed is the A.I. for instance, your teammates are not as offensively good as they were last year and they are not real helpful defensively either.The commentary still needs to be improved and the new button/control scheme is really odd to me,someone who has played the NHL series of games for over 14 years.
I still think that NHL 04 was the best game EA has made in the past 5 years, if you already own nhl 06 then why waste 30 dollars on this slightly updated version?

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Goalie AI will make you insane - garbage goals abound !!!, December 31, 2006

By 

Christopher Posser "mrchrisp99" (Rochester, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL 07 (CD-ROM)

the gameplay is what it is, it's the same as its been since back in 91 for the oldschool sega genesis. you can still swoop down to the faceoff circle and then cut across the goal line to score on a wrister/backhand, and you can still burn around everyone with the speedboost button. the computer opponents still seem to not have the same laws of physics that the player controlled figures have: turning, stopping and changing directions is still labored for players while the computer opponent is cutting back and forth like they were wearing sneakers on pavement with no lag or difficulty at all.

the differences in this game than previous years is that gone are the days of senseless checking and bowling everyone over. now checks dont really knock anyone down at all regardless of difficulty setting. even on easy my 6'5" 240 pound defencemen bounces harmlessly off a 5'8" 165 pound forward. when you add that the computer toons seem infinitely more successful with clutching and hooking and pokechecks than the player is, and regardless of player ratings for the Player controlled goalie every shot that makes it on goal will likely go in, they passed up inproving player AI for challenge, and went right on to nerfing player controlled teams while uber'ing the computer team. it looks like a pee wee hockey team playing against the detroit redwings. difficulty level doesnt matter for computer scoring, they're going to get anywhere from 5 to 8 goals. the difficulty level only dictates how many you're going to be able to score. at beginner / easy you can outslug the computer and win 11 - 5. on difficult its going into overtime and could go either way at 6 - 5. the hardest setting means you're going to wring your hands and throw controllers cause you'll be lucky to keep possession of the puck for more than 3 seconds and the score will be 0 - 5.

the salary cap is right but signing players is a chore and the contracts arent' reasonable or lifelike and its easy to tork around with the settings to keep a good team (i went to the roster management and transferred every 85+ euroleague player who's salary is 0.7 million or less so ive got a team that averages 86 to 94 and a salary cap number of 28 million of the 44 million max. if you are over or close to cap, no problem just send that high priced veteran down to the minors cause there's not waivers or minor league salary constraints. the last annoyance is that there's some sort of success based statistical upgrades but i havent actually earned any. im playing as pittsburg and overachieving on my team goals which were basically avoid last place in-conference, yet i still have yet to earn a single upgrade point (im bummed cause i want to dump them all into goalie training so maybe my player value 92 goalie could stop an actual puck on occasion - save percentage hovers around .760 giving up 4 to 6 goals out of 11 or 12 shots a game on average).

basically i travel a ton for work and have nothing better to do on my laptop now that SOE ruined Star Wars Galaxies so i can tolerate a poor game. if you can bear the hair pulling out aggrivation at the goalie who cant' stop anything or catch a cold, then this is your game.

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