Sega Sports NHL 2K3
MODEL- 64026 VENDOR- Sega FEATURES- NHL 2K3 Sports - Hockey More than just familiar faces and numbers, Sega Sports NHL 2K3 delivers player realism down to size, skill, and behavior, resulting in individuals that exhibit accurate styles of play. Now grinders battle for pucks in the corners, elite players see the ice and create opportunities, and fast skaters exploit their speed. The all- new Franchise Mode lets you capitalize on player accuracy to develop a team that plays your brand of hockey. Now you can draft hotshot rookies, trade for players who compliment your team, compensate for injured players, and more. Then put that precision to work on the ice by anchoring lines with key players and rotating those lines to create the match-ups you want. Bringing it all together is a new ESPN broadcast system where scores, highlights, and more are presented in the network famous style, putting NHL 2K3 in prime position for a repeat season as the leader in hockey realism. * ESPN Broadcast Presentation -- Replays, scores, music, and more are displayed in the famous ESPN style. * All New Franchise Mode -- Create a team and develop it into a dynasty. Play the roles of general manager, coach, scout, player, and more. * Detailed Player Attributes -- Each player is rated in over 50 different categories, resulting in unique players that perform like their real-
Realistic gameplay combined with total control over your team make Sega's NHL 2K3 the game of choice for serious hockey fans. The game captures all the intricacies of the NHL from the furious, hard-hitting action on the ice to the day-to-day decisions made in the front office. Don't like the production you're getting out of one of your players? Send him down to the minors for a few weeks of seasoning to get his game in order. Prefer high-scoring shootouts or 1-0 grind-it-out defensive struggles? Tweak the game's highly customizable AI to set things just the way you like them. Regardless of your preferences, NHL 2K3 delivers the goods to make this more than a passable hockey sim. Like most of Sega's recent sports releases, NHL 2K3 hangs its hat on stellar gameplay and sweet graphics. Little, if anything, is overlooked: players move and react much like their real-life counterparts--goalies are especially acrobatic; the puck seamlessly glides, flips, and bounces around the rink and off the posts and goalie's pads; players can be pinned to the boards during a scramble for the puck; missed shots are covered up by a diving goalie or slapped in off ensuing rebounds; arenas are painstakingly re-created and feature music and sounds specific to each one. Off the ice, there's plenty of options to tinker with and ways to strategize. NHL 2K3 boasts over 30 sliders to alter effects ranging from ice friction to referee collisions. And, of course, there's the franchise mode that allows up to 250 years of dynasty building. --Larry White Note: This review refers to the PlayStation2 version of this game.
Sega Sports NHL 2K3 delivers player realism down to size, skill, and behavior, resulting in individuals that exhibit lifelike styles of play. The all-new franchise mode lets you capitalize on player accuracy to develop a team that plays your brand of hockey: you can draft hotshot rookies, trade for players who complement your team, and compensate for injured players. You can also put that precision to work on the ice by anchoring lines with key players and rotating those lines to create the matchups you want. The game also features a new ESPN broadcast system, so scores and highlights are presented in the network's characteristic style.
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le jeu est bon mais comporte des bugs sur xbox live , les statistiques ne sont pas compiliees correctement sur xbox live. bon jeu a 1 joueur mais pas fort sur le live. on perd la connection de temps a autre et une deconnection compte parfois pour une defaite.
This game was so horrible my family who doesn't know much about games even thought it was horrible. I have been to three rental stores and four different department stores and the highest and the highest anyone gave it was 4/10. I played it for about twenty minutes and i was so disgusted I didn't touch it again. After a bout five minutes of playing I had counted three animation glitches and five sound ones. This game looks like it was made in the eighties. This is the worst hockey game made for this season. I rented Hitz and the gave me this by accident. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone except as a very last resort.
Team strategy settings default to manual for both player and AI teams. CommentatorsThis game licenses elements from ESPNwhy do we get Mono and Tone for commentators. And the goalie can sit on an unplayable puck while 20 seconds run off the game clock before it's called "Puck Frozen." Oh, and then there are the random times that the puck is frozen for no reason.7. I find this one to deliver the least amount of fun and highest amount of frustration of any that I have played.Here is my laundry list of problems with this game, some that I would consider major and some that I would consider peeves:1. It smartly uses the triggers as modifiers for other buttons to let you have real control over what the players do. Barry Melrose's machine-gun laugh before a game. It's very easy in NHL 2K3 to have 50 or 60 shots and not score a goal.
the light blobs, as far as I can tell.2. They all look the same. You can't cherry-pick just outside the crease. Also, the default voice mask for online play is Anonymous, which ranks somewhere between "nails on the chalkboard" and "Gilbert Gottfried" on the annoyance scale.The only advantages that this game has over NHL 2003 is that it is XBox Live enabled, has the concept of a minor-league system, and has some nice along-the-boards gameplay.It's a real shame that this game is as poor as it is. They all play the same. Default Settings.
Officiating. That's right, unless you choose to set the computer team to Automatic strategy changes, it uses the same strategy for the ENTIRE game, regardless of score. Soundtrack. Games wind up being the dark blobs vs.
Yeah, right, Sega. I partially owe my love of hockey to NHL '93 on Sega Genesis, and I have played most hockey games since then. Player Differentiation. The puck-carrier can get a penalty for hooking. There are only two shots that can score: skate in on the off-wing and deke the goalie to the inside, and take a slapshot from the faceoff circle.
This game looks like N64/PS1 graphics. John Buccigross saying "He is clutch, and clutch is everything in life."Commentary typically sounds like this: "He's going to have to continue to make saves like that if the" (pause) (insert team name here) (pause) "are going to have any chance."(The worst error: when I won the Stanley Cup, the commentators said, and I quote, "The Stars are one step closer to the Stanley Cup.")5. If a defenseman takes a slapshot from the point, it's almost always blocked, and never beats the goalie.8. Graphics. EA Sports' system of Heroes and Big Hitters sure looks brilliant in comparison.4. NHL 2K3's "controllability" of what you can do during the game is top-notch. If you like the same cheesy organ riffs over and over, this soundtrack is for you.6. This is the real killjoy of the game.
Redirections don't score. Adam Foote is as fast as Mike Modano, with turbo, on the breakaway. Paul Kariya can hit as hard as Chris Chelios. Every player plays just like every other player. Shooting/Scoring.
The only thing the AI does on defense is collapse everyone in front of the net.3. AIPlayers skate right past the puck when they're under computer control. Or Dave Strader and Darren Pang. How about Gary Thorne and Clement, Clement, hands of cement. One-timers (the staple of EA Sports) rarely score.
The gameplay options are extremely customizable (but they left out the setting for "Fun").All in all, rarely have I played a game that delivers less fun than NHL 2K3. They're boring and repetitive.
Best hockey game out there.most realistic, challenging and fun
the players' names can only be 9 letters long, so you have to shorten them if they are more than that (Zetterberg becomes Zetterber, Volchenkov becomes Volchenko, Seidenberg becomes Seidenber, etc)., and c). the announcers (although it isn't really a big deal to me since i mute them and listen to music anyway) are terrible. these are nice little things that would be great touches on an excellent game if this game was excellent. so I decided that, despite the fact that I have played and enjoyed EA's hockey line for about 10 years now, I would go ahead and get Sega's game. or any other type of shot. 7). well, that about does it for the bad things in this game (that i can remember anyway).
there are a few good aspects, but not much:. the opposing players immediately swarm him and either block it or pick it off and take off toward the other end of the ice. the goalies make ludicrously acrobatic saves, flipping and flailing to stop every shot you take, until. but it's not, so they are just great little touches on a piece of garbage. the create-a-player mode, despite it's enormous amount of controlability, is basically worthless. the first game i played of NHL 2K3, i had 89 shots on goal and didn't score a single time. 1) despite the approximately one jillion ways (and belive me, i have tried them ALL) that you can change the game physics, speed, goalie skill, shot accuracy, puck friction and numerous other things, there is NO WAY to make the games like real hockey games. When i finally got an Xbox this year and decided the first game i needed was a hockey game, i looked to Amazon.com and [another site] for help with customer reviews.
you can pin guys along the boards. the concept of a minor league system is great, even though it is done quite poorly here. 3). 5). because when you have a defenseman (or forward) at the point, no matter what speed you have it set on, you cannot get off a slapshot.
you can't use any of your created players in franchise mode. here is what is wrong with this game:. no one-timers, no rebounds, no "garbage" goals, no slappers from the point. that's it. no matter how high you put the speed of the game, it is never fast enough. 6). don't spend your money on this game.
a). although, i think EA's NHL 2003 has some major flaws. and no matter how much perfume you splash on a can of garbage, it's still just that - garbage. 4). People on this site and on EBGames continually refer to this as "sim hockey" or "real hockey," but i really do not understand how they can be talking about this game. 3).
2). they are inaccurate, repetitive and sound like emotionless robots. 1). when the controller settings are on advanced, you can take a slapshot with a push of a button, instead of holding down a button for a long time. in other words, like EA's NHL 2003, this game desperately needs a way for the user to make default roster settings in season mode, so that when a player gets injured on another team, the computer doesn't just reset the rosters to the way they were originally. you can only have 44 custom players (40 skaters and 4 goalies), which is about 20-30 too few for my needs, b). This game is the most frustrating, unrealistic, boring and mind-bogglingly designed that i have ever had the displeasure of playing. 2).you figure out the only way to score, which is to take your player (preferably a highly skilled player) down one side (left hander down the right side, or right hander down the left side) fake to one side, cross in front of the goalie and slide it in.
you can change your defensive lines as well your offensive lines whenever you want, instead of being at the mercy of the computer like in EA"s game. 4). it is far superior to this [game]. this games features the amazing idea of a minor league system, but if you send a guy from a computer controlled team down to the minors at the beginning of the season, the computer automatically calls him back up after the first game is played. on both sites, it seemed like the overwhelming majority of hockey gamers liked Sega's NHL 2K3 better than EA's NHL 2003. Well, that was definitely a mistake.
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