NHL Breakaway 98

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Product Features

• Sports
• Single player
• Multiplayer

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002STHS
• Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 3 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,182 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo 64

GameSpot Review

NHL Breakaway 98 claimed the crown for the best hockey game on the PlayStation, but how does it fare for the N64? Well, considering it's practically the same game, it fares just fine. Due to the lackluster hockey lineup currently available on the system, Breakaway 98 can easily be called the best hockey game on the N64.

Breakaway 98 has all of the real NHL teams - plus eight international teams - all of the players, and their stats. Players can be traded back and forth, letting you create a dream team of hockey's greatest players. In its management mode, Breakaway also pulls off what so many sports games have attempted over the years. It awards points for every victory, which can be used to pay for physical therapists (that speeds the recovery of an injured player), train minor league players, or improve your stadium, which in turn will help raise your attendance and net you more points to spend per victory. It's a vicious cycle, just like real life. It takes points to make points, and this feature makes playing an entire season tons of fun.

Visually, Breakaway 98 is fantastic - the animations of the players falling, skating, and shooting look incredibly lifelike. With such detail, not only can you read the names of the players off the backs of their jerseys, you can even see the players' numbers on their sleeves. Players also are sized according to their height in real life. So Gretzky is small and fast, but unable to check as effectively as a big, lumbering oaf. The graphics don't appear to be quite as crisp as the PlayStation version although some of the new camera angles in the N64 version are very good.

The sound effects give you a sense of how bad someone gets checked. The other effects such as a puck hitting the post and a player crashing into the boards sound as though you are at a real hockey game. Breakaway also has all the organ music featured at the rink and an announcer to go along with it, although the announcer in the N64 version is noticeably less talkative than in the PlayStation version.

One big plus for the N64 version is the control. The analog stick seems to lend itself well to the smooth motion on the rink. Players can skate backward, hook, dump passes, and do just about anything else. Breakaway has intuitive controls for beginners that let you play with the use of three buttons: pass, shoot, and check. Then when you get the hang of it you can learn some of the more advanced features of the game.

In the end, Breakaway 98 is one of those rare games that come along every once in a while; it seems to have everything going for it: great graphics, superb sound, unmatched control - a game that's just plain good in all of the categories. Breakaway 98 is better than real hockey. --Ryan Mac Donald
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This is the game NHL Breakaway '98 for the Nintendo 64. This is cartridge only and is used or preplayed. All of our N64 nintendo games are cleane

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for mindless fun, December 4, 2005

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P. W. (Lake Tapps, WA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL Breakaway 98 (Game Cartridge)

Me and my college buds played this game practically everyday. Fun, fun, fun. 70 or so hits, oh yeah. It's got so-so graphics, I mean it's not Xbox 360, but it'll do for 64. It's got lots of options too, as many other people have pointed out. I'm not sure about realism, but you can certainly edit the settings to make the final score very realistic. If your looking for old school fun, this one should do you well.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breaks away from Bad N64 games, January 29, 2001

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"cthoms" (West Chatham, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NHL Breakaway 98 (Game Cartridge)

If N64 games were a pool, then some little kid peed in it. This game is the chlorine for that pool, it cleans up. The game is fun as a solo player or with multiple people. You can manage your own franchise from top to bottom. You can hire coaches with names like Igor "The Glove" and "Speedy". You can recruit your own talent and nuture them through their tough years in the AHL. You can even create your own players like the one they call Radio because he had a slapshot you could hear but not see. Buy this game it's the closest you'll ever actually come to Lord Stanley's Cup.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BREAKAWAY 98 IS GREAT, January 6, 2000

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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: NHL Breakaway 98 (Game Cartridge)

IF YOU LOVE HOCKEY YOU WILL LOVE THIS GAME! THE PLAY ON THIS IS QUICK TO LEARN AND ALL THE OPTIONS ARE COOL LIKE CREATE A PLAYER, MANAGE TEAMS , OLYMPIC PLAYOFFS. THE ONLY DRAWBACK IS WHEN FIGHTING IS TO GET THE FIGHTERS CLOSER TOGETHER INSTEAD OF HITTING AIR. BUT THAT IS THE ONLY DRAWBACK AND ITS NOT THAT BAD SINCE YOU DONT FIGHT ALL THE TIME.. IF YOU ARE TO BUY A GAME THIS IS THE ONE ITS ALOT BETTER THAN THE GRETZKY GAMES OUT THERE NOW!

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