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Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice look and feel, but still has its problems
Comment: This is my first PS3 hockey game, having played this series of 2K Sports games on the PS2 for years before. NHL 2K10 looks great! The pre-game cinematics and look of the crowd is convincing. Shadows and blade trails on the ice are excellent and the lighting is impressive. The arena music is nothing to gush over, but it works for the setting. Overall, it's really a slick presentation that draws you in for a game and sets your expectations high.

Unfortunately, this game doesn't deliver in every area. I'm not saying it's all bad news. The action flows smoothly, with nice passing and shooting. Skirmishes behind the net and throughout the defensive zone are fun. But there are still some serious flaws in this game. First game out was coop with a friend and we were both beating each other down instead of the opponent. We thought this was just a matter of experience and tightening up our game. But we've been playing this series coop for years now and never had this issue come up before. We tried to turn "friendly fire" either off or at least down a bit, but could find no setting to control this. So there we were ten games in, still rolling over each other. Skating across the ice to check an opponent and then elbowing my friend instead when he skates in to help out?! Yeah...that's realistic. I could maybe see it happening once in a while as an accident, but we've been in games where it happened 5-10 times.

Of course, the referees still get in your way...now more than ever. It's like they go out of their way to interrupt traffic and cause pileups. Ridiculous!

We've read through the controls a couple of times and it still seems that we're tripping players up when we intend to check them instead. The controls are sensitive in all the wrong ways, favoring mistakes that will result in a more than a few penalties. We've even turned penalties down in the options screen, but still we're playing the majority of each game with one or two in the box.

Commentary is cheesy as always, but not really all that bad. There are also some graphics glitches every so often, but also nothing to worry too much about.

To sum up, I feel that NHL 2K10 is a mixed bag of good and bad. For next year, I do hope they take a closer look at friendly fire incidents, as this is one of our biggest complaints. But it's still a playable game with some enjoyable hockey action to be found.

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Summary: The Definitve 2K Sports Hockey Game
Comment: Since the 2K Franchise started doing NHL games back when the ESPN tag was on the box, the company found a way to make a game that ended up besting what EA Sports could put out for XBox or PlayStation 2. Though the quality of EA's games for the XBox 360/PlayStation 3 drove 2K Sports to focus solely on Wii for the next season, their PlayStation 2 games remain beyond compare. Since this is likely their final hockey title to be released for PlayStation 2, it should be fitting that this one sends it off the way they probably would have liked it to have been the entire time: complete, comprehensive, and not bug-ridden.

There's nothing new here in regards to what the franchise has done since the beginning and worked toward. The Pro Controls and Superstar moves remain, the franchise mode is still relatively deep for a PS2 game, and there's always the exceptional soundtrack (which is not to my liking as much as the previous years but I realize I'm probably not the target audience here either.) The only thing seemingly missing is the Winter Classic arena; did I overlook it or is it gone?

Be that as it may, this send-off is the 2K game as it was always meant to be played. If your older versions are annoying you and you want the updated rosters; go for it. If you still have a PS2 and want a decent hockey title, then go for it as well. The next-gen gaming systems look like they're taking over for good, but if this is their last game for PS2, it was the best one they could have put out.

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Summary: My first hockey game for Wii
Comment: I will start off by saying that I've been disappointed by pretty much every sports game I've played on the Wii, but this game was a pleasant surprise! Not only is the gameplay very good with both the Wii Motion Plus and the classic controller. I use both but prefer the classic controller for this particular game.

For a Wii game the graphics are really good and I believe there are 4 levels of difficulty. My kids find it a little difficult on the easiest setting but in only a week they are getting the hang of it. I'm playing a custom difficulty somewhere in the middle and I'm playing around .500 hockey right now so it is challenging but I'm still a beginner.

Highly recommended game and I will buy 2K11.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: this is crap
Comment: So I wanted to play hockey on my Playstation but Gamestop didn't have 2k10 so I settled for dollar copy of NHL 2005 until I could order it from Amazon. To my surprise the 2005 game turns out to be a better overall game than the overly clunky and shoddily made NHL 2K10.
Certainly the game play looks great and you actually feel a part of the team but there are so many buttons to remember and at the oddest places. I still don't know how to make the slap shot happen. The 2005 model had very simple shot controls. Then there's the trouble with the pro level because once the AI decides that the team it's playing is going to score, your players suddenly become quite worthless unable to coral the puck (no matter how sure handed) and your goalie starts feeding rebounds to the other team even with 3 attackers in front of him and no matter what you do, your defense can't move them or get the puck back in any way until the other team scores. It's stupid and frustrating because no matter how well you play, the computer is always going to score and, depending how often the computer team surges, probably win the game in pro mode. Maybe if I were a kid I could adapt to the dumb controls like moving my active player with the left analog stick and controlling shots with the right analog yet being expected to some how use the directional pad for "on the fly coaching". Uh, my thumb is occupied. Should I stop moving my player and lose the puck in the time it takes to stop and push left for my team to do this or that? Of course not.
The pass controls don't always work and if you play it on the easy setting, you're crushing your opponents so it's not very fun either.
The voice over "talent" is just awful and at times make no damn sense whatsoever. Like between the action, for no reason, the game announces a players name and then there's nothing and finally later the announcers say the same players name again. Example: "Gionta..." and you wait and you wait and wait and then "Gionta... and they are ready to drop the puck."
A particularly annoying voice over bit refers to a pillow. Now folks, I have watched a lot of hockey in my day and I just don't know what the hell the game means. "Mason...save! I think he blocked it with his pillow!"
???? Or, "Let's take a look at the replay and you can see just how close to the pillow he was."
????
The crowds were supposed to be more realistic; the 2005 version was better. The sounds are all off. You can ring the puck off the bar but you won't hear the ding for 10 seconds, the effect of which is you have the and are passing and >ding!< your shot off the post finally is heard. There are off whistles too. For example, I pass the puck up ice to my winger and a whistle blows. Why? Because the other team apparently came in offside 20 seconds ago so all that effort you just wasted getting the puck from them to pass up ice in the 1st place was for naught. Also the 2005 version was closer to how the players looked. This is hodgepodge.
If this is the crap EA sports is putting out today, it's no wonder their NHL line may get the axe. Maybe if you jerks made a proper game the people would want to play it. I'm disappointed the NHL allowed their brand to be used here, but in the Gary Bettman era NHL integrity is a joke.


The 2005 model had much better voice overs.

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Summary: Ted's
Comment: Excellent graphics !!! the WII hockey stick is a must when playing this game !!!!

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