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Mild Violence: Hockey players hit each other to gain control of the puck. Sometimes they fight. Videogame hockey is almost as timeless as Pac-Man. From humble beginnings as a Pong variant, through Activision's awesome Ice Hockey for Atari to Konami's Blades of Steel and into the EA Sports era, hockey has endured as a favored sports son on videogame consoles. NHL 07 is the culmination of all EA Sports entries into the current generation hockey wars. It's loaded with all the expected features like dynasty mode, create-a-player, online play and even some fancy stickhandling on the ice. Using the right stick to pass is a treat, but it just never becomes natural to shoot with the R1 and R2 buttons. Gamepad gurus will rule you online so unless you're a recruit in that army, stick with the acceptable computer foe. The animation is a little jittery for such a graceful game, but it gets the job done. Sound is uncharacteristically poor for an EA Sports game with a limited soundtrack and mediocre on-ice audio as well as mechanical sounding commentary. As the current generation winds down and a new one kicks off, it seems that EA has run out of ideas to implement on PlayStation 2. The expanded feature list on Xbox 360 confirms that evaluation since there's no Skill Stick on the "old" systems, a great looking feature that you've no business coveting if you're not willing to lay out big cash for a new console. It's still a good game of hockey on PS2, but the roster update is its main selling point.  
E10+ seems a bit harsh for a sport that plays its games both afternoons and evenings on television. Are there no eight year-old kids skating, dekeing and shooting at the local ice rink anymore? That's news to me. We're in a post-Oblivion ratings screw up world though, so I guess that's some kind of justification?
Or not. The bottom line is this game is fine for every kid to play, just like every ice hockey game that's come before it and that was rated E-Everyone. It's rare that a game is rated too high, but this is one of those rare games. If you've got a six year old Peter Forsberg in the house, the only reason not to get him NHL 07 for his PlayStation 2 is because you're buying him an Xbox 360 for Christmas. You should get him that (more expensive) version instead. Comments? Chat about it in our forums! Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us | Buy This Game Browse Amazon.com's selection of "nhl" themed games Home > Review Archive > Video Games > Results: NHL 07 |
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