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Product Description Take control of the fastest sports game on earth: NHL 2003. Whether you're skating as a rookie or lacing 'em up as a pro, pull off 90 mph slapshots and awesome moves with Dynamic Deke Control. Never before have you had this much control over the stick and puck. Online play uses real-time team and player stats and pits you against other members in tournaments. Show off your superior skills and earn rewards like the Game Breaker, which puts your opponents in slow motion as you blow by them for the open shot. Torching speed and pulverizing action will get any sports fan fired up. From the Manufacturer Take control of the fastest sports game on earth: NHL 2003. Whether you're skating as a rookie or lacing 'em up as a pro, pull off 90 mph slapshots and awesome moves with Dynamic Deke Control. Never before have you had this much control over the stick and puck. Online play uses real-time team and player stats and pits you against other members in tournaments. Show off your superior skills and earn rewards like the Game Breaker, which puts your opponents in slow motion as you blow by them for the open shot. Torching speed and pulverizing action will get any sports fan fired up.
The nice aspects of NHL 2003 can be summarized rather briefly: more realistic play around the goals (no more magnetic goaltender) and a more intuitive menu system. That's all. Players who are expecting an improvement from NHL 2002 - go back to NHL 2002 and play that for one more year. Don't waste your money on this disappointing offering.Compared to it's predecessor, NHL 2003 is stripped down to the bare bones and it feels unfinished. Handicap sliders (adjusting goalie skills and player speeds) are gone from Franchise and International modes. The entire NHL Cards system is gone. All of the cool cheats and goal celebrations are gone. The players no longer look like their namesakes.The handicap sliders are sorely missed, for the difficulty levels are terminally mismatched. Playing on Easy will give you 10-1 and 14-3 scores after a day of practice, whereas on the Medium level, you're in for the fight of your life.Instead of making an effort in the AI field, EA Sports allows the computer-controlled team to cheat in order to get the edge:- Forget winning man-on-man situations along the boards.- When star players get the puck, don't waste your energy trying to check the player and take the puck, because you won't be able to (your own star players are not allowed the same invincibility).- At the end of a game where you have a 1 or 2-goal lead, be prepared to see the opposing players swarm like flies - totally at odds with the late-game fatigue that your own troops are experiencing.- Don't be surprised if you outshoot the computer 35-10 and still tie the game 5-5.I will not launch into the debate whether this is a hockey *simulator* or a hockey *arcade game*. I just know that it's entertainment software, and as such, it falls far below the mark for me. I wouldn't recommend it.
