Customer Reviews

NHL 2006

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

So how do you release a new version of software based on a season that never was? For a program that is based on player statistics, I had serious questions about whether this was a good buy.
I play NHL 2005 almost every night. NHL 06 fixes everything that I hate about NHL 2005. No longer do you have to skate in and autodeke and use the right thumbstick to hope to get a crazy shot past the goalie. NHL 06 brings back real skating with classic deking with the left thumbstick!! So much easier and better gameplay!
The interface is completely overhauled. The initial speed settings were noticeably slower than NHL 2005 so I had to turn them up. Now you get special moves with the right thumbstick and star players can do the special moves.
The whole game experience is better. More commentary by the announcers, and its not too repetitive (unlike the VERY irritating NHL 2005). More TV-like graphic experience. One wierd thing is the instant replay sometimes down't seem to be quite accurate for player placement.
The team rosters show the current NHL rosters. Must have been difficult to turn it around that quick. Many of the teams are very different because of trades and the salary cap. I usually play as the Carolina Hurricanes. They are useless, especially Gerber, so I had to do some significant trades (I don't have to worry about salary cap, apparently).
So what don't I like? The goalie flops down too easy and stays down too long, especially Martin Gerber. Thye changed the checking model to have sensitivity of the Y-button. Now it seems like they don't hit very hard at all, even when I turn up the checking and agression. There is also alot of play in the puck handling, even at high sensitivity. I also don't like the music as much as NHL 2005.
Overall, I like this game very much. Not perfect, but much better than NHL 2005.

This game is a blast. I had a lot of expectations after NHL 05 and they have met most of them. The realistic puck movement - where you can rock a slapshot off a player's body, and instead of them picking it up and bringing it back down the ice, they actually feel the sting and limp away - is awesome. The return of "on your own deking" is most welcome. With '05, you had to count on the thumbstick to beat the goalie. In '06 you are on your own. While there is very little that I would change, my two major beefs are the loss of the "big hit" and the fantasy draft. Half the fun of playing was knocking someone into the 5th row. In '06, the hits are wussy. You have to get a major-league running start, and you still don't get that much of a reward for it. Above all, though, I miss the fantasy draft. Being a fan of the game, my favorite part was creating a dynasty from lottery picks. It created some parity in the game and exposed me to some new ways of viewing my team. I'm hoping it is back in '07.
Overall, this is still a great game and a lot of fun to play.

This is my first NHL video game and it is pretty good. There is a big difference between difficulty levels, but right now I am finding the medium difficulty level to be more fun (I quit my dynasty mode on easy after scoring 19 goals in one game). Anyway, some of the players are able to do ridiculous moves with the puck, and also what kills me is the fact that the glass behind the net shatters too often whenever you hit a slapshot past the net. Also, the rosters aren't as up to date as they should be. (ex. If you are a Hurricanes fan, you will be very dissapointed to find that they only have Martin Gerber and Jamie Storr as goaltenders and Cam Ward, the rookie, is not even on the game, even with players in the minors on this game. What I had to do to keep the other team from scoring so many goals is that I had to sign Curtis Joseph from the Free Agency list and they still will not change the Red Wings helmet into a Hurricanes helmet.) It would make it more interesting if there was a fantasy draft where you can pick your whole team from all the players on the game like in Madden NFL, but it doesn't have one. Overall, it's a decent game to play.

I love this game and have probably played through 200 games or more since buying it. EA loses big points for screwing up the dynasty mode, however - you'll play the exact same schedule year after year after year. How a company that has been making sports games for so long can screw up something so simple is beyond me. It's like they purposely do stuff like this so we can all rejoice when they fix these stupid mistakes the following year. Sometimes it feels like they start from scratch every year. In the end, though, this is one of the best hockey games I've owned.

With the last few NHL's in the EA series sorely disappointing me, it was nice to play this one and find to be up to snuff. The game is advertised as bring back the fun of the classic NHL 94, and it definitely does. The reasons are many, mainly accurate player and puck momentum tech and new shooting features that bring the game back from the doldrums of lousy gameplay. Plus, the Dynasty Mode feature is awesome, letting you control basically every aspect of the team. This is a great game and I highly recommend it.

My husband absolutely loves this game. I got him this game and Madden 09, and he plays this one more often and totally loves it. He's a huge hockey fan, but he's also a huge good graphics fan, so the older games tend to be not so great compared to their more modern counterparts. This is the newest version available for xbox. He is very impressed with it and has a blast playing it.

This game is nothing special. I have played every EA Sports hockey game since its inception and I am not impressed. The online game play is not realistic. You will win games and lose games and feel like your skill is not making a difference. Very frustrating. Online some games you will win 6-0 with out even trying and other you will lose 10-0 in the same breath. There doesn't seem to be a rythme or reason to this game. Overall the controls are generall very numb. The defense players are non existent. This game may be cheaper this year though forget the money, don't waste you time giving this game a chance, you will be disapointed.

Of course the hockey game to go with is Nhl 2006 not Nhl 2K6
Nhl 2006 gameplay and graphics are better than 2k6
as for the game the only thing I have against it is that their is no user records to keep track of how many games you have played and won
The season mode is great and they have all World teams so you can do the World tournement mode if you'd like
Also another good thing about this game is you can create your own team and players and you can also edit players increasing or decreasing their attributes to make them better or worse the players face and features are ok they didnt really make everyones personal face and hair etc. but you really cant tell with the jersey and helmet on only at the edit screen
This game is recomended for any hockey fan or spors fan