NHL 2K7

by 2K Sports

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: B000GJX6ZG
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,352 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

NHL 2K7 brings back the champion of hockey games with better gameplay and faster on-ice action. 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. Featuring all-new presentation elements, commentary and cut-scenes, NHL 2K7 brings the ice to you. Online gameplay and comprehensive online features - Completely online stat tracking, buddy lists management and online leagues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now This Is Hockey!!!, October 28, 2006

By 

M. Buck (Brooklyn, N.Y. United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL 2K7 (Video Game)

Every once in a while, a game comes out that shows it's competition just how things should be done. NHL 2K7 takes a real game of hockey and puts it in control of your Psx2. Putting this game against EA's NHL 07, NHL 2K7 takes the Cup.

Graphics and audio goes to EA's NHL 07. The players in NHL 2K7 look very good. However, NHL 07 has much better player models and everything just looks that much better in EA's game. The sounds of the game in NHL 2K7 are good, but NHL 07 is way ahead in that department, too (i.e--the announcer in NHL 2K7 does more, but sounds poorly done and rushed). Looks and sound--NHL 07.

Game play completely goes to NHL 2K7. This game is such a great sim game of hockey. Animation, stats, goals, etc. are dead-on. Compared to NHL 07, EA's game is rather choppy in animation and after seeing players like Joe Thornton constantly perform triple-axle after triple-axle, shoot a backhander and score no matter where he is every time he's one the ice just makes you want to put NHL 07 away and never touch it again. NHL 2K7 has the realistic game play a sim gamer wants. One the downside to NHL 2K7, the fighting engine looks pretty bad (NHL 07 has the best fist-a-cuffs), but is still fun to drop the gloves. Another thing to add is the better goalies in the 2K7 game--they simply do not give up those horrible goals that the EA Sports goaltenders constantly do--I actually shut-out the Flyers with the Rangers in my third game in NHL 2K7 (try doing that in NHL 07--shut-outs are impossible in EA's game!). Game play--NHL 2K7.

Options in NHL 2K7 are a bit better, too. Actually being able to practice is a good way to learn how to play the game and create chemistry for your lines during dynasty mode. The games music is pretty good--better than the horrible tunes in NHL 07. One the bad side of dynasty mode in the 2K7 game is that there doesn't seem to be a salary cap implemented. Options--NHL 2K7.

Head-to-head, NHL 2K7 loses out in looks and sounds. However, it's the game play that matters the most and because of that, NHL 2K7 is this years hockey game to own. There is simply no mistaking it--NHL 2K7 beats NHL 07 in nearly every aspect of the game--and it costs less, too. If you want a real hockey sim, get NHL 2K7. There is no excuse--you can't go wrong with this game.

Here's my breakdown comparison:

Graphics: NHL 07--9.0, NHL 2K7--7.0

Rink Ambience: NHL 07--10, NHL 2K7--8.0

Menu Music: NHL 07--4.0, NHL 2K7--7.0

Options: NHL 07--8.0, NHL 2K7--9.0

Animation: NHL 07--7.5, NHL 2K7--9.5

Game play: NHL 07--6.5, NHL 2K7--9.0

Overall: NHL 07--7.5, NHL 2K7--8.25

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 2K is losing me as a customer!, October 23, 2006

By 

Jaha (CT United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL 2K7 (Video Game)

First off I would love to ask the developers why this game was delayed a month!? I have been loyal to 2K since their first hockey offering and I waited patiently until this year. I went out and bought NHL 07, was promptly disappointed, sold that game and waited for this. What a waste.

NHL 2K7 is virtually unchanged since last year barring some minor menus alterations and updated rosters. I cannot find anything that could make a month delay understandable. This game could have easily come out in June. Whats worse about the delay is that the game appears to be unfinished or at least poorly tested.

The gameplay of 2K7 is almost identical to 2K6 and it is the best part of the game. Although on higher levels the game deteriorates into a hitting bonanza and what is up with penalties!?!? One of the great things about 2K hockey was the slide bars to slowly adjust the game in all aspects but for some reason I could not get the penalties right. Either I would get 20 penalties a game on one setting or none at all on slightly lower scales. I still am struggling to get the bars even so you get nice parity.

Fighting still stinks. It's a joke really and shouldn't even be here if that is all they can do with it. Hockey players don't turn around in the middle of a fight. EA's fighting system was much more interesting.

The on the fly coaching is great. I loved this feature and it is still here which is a plus. However the other strategy features aren't always responsive. For instance the pressure meters or the face off setups don't always resond to your input. just a frustrating thing.

The biggest gripe I have with this game is just the simple menu navigation. Is it entirely neccessary to have 8,000 menu's to navigate but when you traverse them all you still can't find what you want. The text and color schemes wear on the eyes and become hard to read after a while. Menus take a while getting used to as well.

Plus in Franchise mode I have noticed some major annoying features. One, changing your teams playing strategy requires you to adjust it during each game. I am sure there is a save function somewhere in all those menus but I haven't found it. In the Franchise screnes there is no way to save your strategy setups and I find myself having to do it before each game. Also everytime a player is hurt or removed from your roster the computer resets your lines to the asinine defaults. I have the Auto-fill and auto-coach features off but the game is programmed to mandate that all lines must be full so if a player is removed it will reset. What an annoyance when you completely change all of your lines from 5on5 to PP and PK lines, etc then have them all reset and have to set them over again. A simple save lines function would be very easy and super nice.

Some other glaring omissions. No salary cap? EA had the cap in play and it was nice to keep up with the NHL but here there is only the budget which can easily be manipulated. The deke's have pretty much been removed from the game making gameplay a little more bland, and lastly the feature of allowing teams to offer bonus incentives to players in their contract is useless. Incentives never seem to have any impact on whether a player will sign with you or not.

The franchise mode in 2K7 is fairly neat with it's minor league team however much of all the bells and whistles are quickly identified as cotton candy features. What does this mean? Well for the most part most of the franchise feautres have no bearing on anything other than distracting you into thinking you are managing your team. But the reality is your coaching staff, contract offers, minor league team, etc really don't do anything. You can take the worst coaches, never have your players practice, ignore the chemistry meters, etc and the game isn't really any different. Also the game rarely rewards you with much when you do participate in these things. EA's franchise mode is far more in depth and complete compared to this.

Sadly though even though I don't care for this game gameplay wise it still is better than EA's. NHL 07 had the worst gameplay I have ever seen in a hockey game so I am stuck with 2K7 this year.

Next year I hope these developers actually put some meat in this shell of a decent hockey game. Sadly seeing as how this game hasn't changed at all for the past 4 years I doubt it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST HOCKEY GAME YET!, March 21, 2007

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL 2K7 (Video Game)

Last year I bought NHL 2006 by EA,and I thought it was good but then it was ridiculous scoring 20+ goals a game.This year my dad bought me NHL 2k7 and it is so much better,here are the reasons

1.Graphics:Flow very smoothly

2.Sound:The broadcast team of Bob Cole and Harry Neale are a lot better than those guys from Nhl 2006.

3.Player Faces:Not only do the big stars look like themselves,but so do the lesser players.

4.Gameplay:You don't score 150 goals in this game

5.Franchise and Season Modes:Editing lines in this game is much easier,plus it shows you their chemistry.

The only problem with this game is that they didn't include the new Sabre Jerseys

GO SABRES,From a true Hockey Fan

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