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I must have spent 2 to 3 days at least looking for my first Playstation Hockey game to purchase! I knew I wanted to go with EA Sports so price made me go with NHL 2000! I have to say I have been a long time hockey gamer on other systems for a lot of years and for [the price] you cant go wrong with this one! Once you get a hang of the buttons and the feel of the game, beginners and rookie level setting will be way too easy, I was winning game by 12-15 goals! With four different difficulty settings the game will be challenging no matter how good you are! The greatest part of the game I thought (unlike other hockey games of the past) you could actually score a goal from the blue line with a 100mph slap shot right past the goalie! Even the fighting with four different punches you can throw is fun! All around an excellent hockey game and for the price it's a major steal!!

The month that "NHL 2000" was released, millions of fans scurried to their closest electronic shack, looking forward to discovering if EA Sports had taken the virtual National Hockey League to a more realistic and entertaining level. Following the successfully encouraging opening week of "NHL 2000", the buying rate drastically dropped, and didn't look back. Revered by dissapointed gamers as a carbon copy of "NHL '99", "NHL 2000" just wasn't able to make it happen for anyone that wasn't a hard-core hockey buff. When yours truly first sampled "NHL 2000", I too, felt that I would have been better off buying 100 sets of shoe laces, or 25 pairs of fingernail clippers. Feeling conflicted when seeing the thrilling advertisements, I decided to give it a second chance and evaluate what was on "NHL 2000" that wasn't yet introduced on the "NHL '99" version. When I dove deeply into the game, I realized the high quality of the wide range of possibilities and non-encrypted gifts that helped out the image of this game. The ads on the ice gave a boost to it's realism, not to mention the crowd expanding to cheers AND boo's. The controls let you do anything you could in a real game, and the special effects are really something: the players have their faces molded to look just like the real men.

There were a few major cons that were in the previous NHL Playstation versions that failed to get attended to. First of all, it isn't too much to ask for the correct goal horns. All of them are the same, no matter what building the game is in. In "NHL Face Off", the real goal horns are brought to your TV. Second, the physical aspect is very weak. The fighting in this game is a travesty to the way it actually is, and the body checking is overdone. Finally, there are just too many slap shots. Seven out of ten shots fired by the computer are slappers, even from close-range one-timers. Despite these negativities, the game is fun and doesn't get old.

this game can still hold up against PS2 versions of the game EA sports did a great job with this game