NHL 2002

by EA

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006GEST
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,296 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #8 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Hockey
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Jewel Case

From the Manufacturer

Turn on the red light and your team mates mob you. Dominate the boards and the crowd wants more. Score the Stanley Cup winner and you're a legend. EA Sports ramps up the noise, the glory, and the sheer physical force of NHL hockey to deliver higher levels of intensity and emotion. With more customisation, stellar gameplay and graphics, and a unique card-based reward system, NHL 2002 takes you from the locker room to the ice, to the shoulders of your team mates. Get on the ice and be the hero.

See the action from a whole new angle with the breakaway cam and be the hero of the most exciting play in hockey. Show off crazy skills and dazzling moves to earn cards for boosts, cheats, and other cool stuff. With EA Gamestory go in a whole new direction and follow the game's story in cinematic and audible detail. Come from behind by getting your home crowd pumped up or by quieting the thronging masses. An emotion meter gauges the crowd's reactions, which your team will respond to.

Upload custom jerseys or put yourself in the game with an array of hairstyles and facial features with the new create-a-player feature. And then take customisation to the next level by downloading your own MP3s or .WAV files into NHL 2002, and win the Stanley Cup to your own custom soundtrack. You can even take on NHL 2002 fans worldwide online.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, December 10, 2002

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"nick901" - See all my reviews

This review is from: NHL 2002 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

Unless EA Sports will come up with an improvement to the NHL series next year, NHL 2002 will remain the ultimate hockey game for the PC for some time. With the new reduced-price jewel case edition, there is no reason why even casual PC hockey gamers shouldn't pick it up.

The graphics, EA's forte, are outstanding. The players in the game have an uncanny likeness to their real-life counterparts and the actual games look like they could as well have been televised. There are some new controls that add to the flexibility of your players: by holding down the pass button instead of just pressing it quickly, you can flip the puck over the opponents' sticks. Players that receive a pass will stretch for it or kick it forward to the stick depending on the situation. A new deke function has been added, that enables you to take control of the player's stick and fake out defensemen and goaltenders.

There are four difficulty levels ranging from Beginner to Hard, and even then, each level is totally customizable in most gameplay areas. You can boost goalie skills and player speed individually for the teams and there are also numerous sliders that control puck and ice physics.

The actual gameplay is more about arcade-like entertainment than true-to-life ice hockey. The game is about crashing the net, shooting hard and delivering bone-crunching checks, at the expense of positioning, strategy and defensive AI. The commentating style, courtesy of veteran Jim Hughson and sportscaster Don Taylor, ties in with the more light-hearted humoristic approach. Hockey purists may not agree, but I personally find their wise-cracking extremely funny and far more entertaining than the predictable, stilted color commentary of previous versions. ("It starts with a pass into the offensive zone by A. B unleashes a backhand and it's in the back of the net.")

The short version is, NHL 2002 is fun. Very fun. It has that elusive "just one more game" feel to it, a feeling that few other games have been able to give me. Hockey purists may be less than pleased about the more arcadish features, but a casual hockey and gaming freak such as myself is very pleased. The latest version might have more realistic physics, but on the whole, this is widely superior and feels like a more complete game than its successor NHL 2003. Expect sleepless nights and aching fingers!

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Hockey Game of the Decade, January 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: NHL 2002 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

NHL 2002 is by far the best hockey game of the decade. While the drafting could be critiqued, the overall gameplay and graphics for 15 bucks is 5 stars..no question. I recommend this game to any and all who are a hockey fan (or even not a hockey fan)..like myself.

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