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NHL 2002 | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $29.99
New (18) Used (41) from $0.01
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 14377
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 6 - 17 years
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 100730
UPC: 014633143805
EAN: 0014633143805
ASIN: B00005O629
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | For Play on Your Xbox | | • | Rush the net in pursuit of the game-winning goal | | • | Published by Electronic Arts | | • | Game Genre: Sports, Game Sub-Genre: Hockey |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Get ready for more hard-hitting checks, awesome slap shots, and all-out brawls. The NHL comes to your TV screen yet again in this detailed installment of the NHL series. Choose to play as any of the franchises in the entire league gaining access to current players and stats, as well as real team strategies. New graphics options and rewards systems deliver extra thrills, and commentary from announcers Don Taylor and Jim Hughson really brings the TV-style presentation full circle.
Amazon.com Product Description
Rush the net in pursuit of the game-winning goal, guard the crease with your life to shut out the opposition, and watch it all from the player's point of view. In this game, you are the hero. New features include the Breakaway Camera, EA GameStory, which recognizes and rewards outstanding performance, and Create-a-Player so you can really put yourself in the game. Whether you're an intense power forward or bruising defenseman, you'll feel pure adrenaline as you take the ice--but don't take our word for it, experience it for yourself.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
GREAT HOCKEY GAME September 2, 2003
GREAT EXITING GAME THAT REALLY GETS YOUR HEARTRATE UP. I CAN'T BE BEAT WITH JAMIR JAGR AND THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS.
 NHL 2002 - Hockey That Rocks Your House Into an Ice Rink- August 24, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game rocks, the graphics are cool and the sound is very realistic. The Create-a-player option is very good, because of some simple steps you do to create a player, put his Checking ability, his agressive rating, and even his potencial and speed can be selected with just some clicks. I usually play with the pitsburgh penguins or the San Jose Sharks. You can create a team of your favorite players like Owen Nolan or even your created player of yourself. The fight mode in the games is awesome and the goal celebration cool. If you want to play a season, a world tournament with Team Canada or just a shootout the options are greate so you can guide yourself easy inside the Ice Rink. You can play with Joystick or a Game Pad or even with your own keyboard you can score goals and make natural hat-tricks with the power that offers you this 1 or 2 player game is awesome...
 Ok, but not much difference from the 2001 version... October 27, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I rented this game because of how much I liked previous NHL games made by EA Sports. So I picked this up and poped it in. The first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of little movies. Players getting pumped up before a game, celebrations on and off the ice. I thought that was pretty cool, and a new added feature. But other than little things like that, this game doesn't offer much of anything new. Here's what I thought about this game, and why I only thought it a renter, not a buyer.1. The graphics: The players are sharper, the ice is thicker. The fans actually move in 3D! But overall, not to great. The puck is way too big, and the overall graphics just aren't to improved. This game had great graphics, but so did previous versions. 2. The options: HORRIBLE. No create a team, no new features. And the biggest thing, no FRANCHISE mode! That was about as dumb as having no franchise mode in NBA Live 2001. I am seriously disapointed by the options in this game. Nothing new whatsoever! 3. The overall depth: After your first season, this game will probably get pretty boring. More new features and better graphics is what this game needs. I hope EA changed things in 2003 edition. Oops, too bad! They did the same thing. Until they finally add some sort of franchise and stuff like that, EA's NHL series will continue, for me, to be a renter, not a buyer. Rent before u buy, then make your decision. Just a warning. Hope this helped, and I expect a lot more from the great company that is EA. Thx!
2002 falls short July 23, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My brother and I have probably logged more head-to-head games than anyone playing EA hockey simulations. We enjoyed the first two versions for the Sega and now have been playing NHL 99 for Playstation since it debued. We were ready to upgrade and went out and purchased an X-box specifically to play this game. We tried it for about an hour and decided that it wasn't worth the investment. (Sold everything at a loss on E-bay) The graphics were certainly much better than the 99 version and the gameplay was pretty good (not [money] better); but the one aspect we just couldn't get by was the horrible color commentary. I have read many reviews that said it was hilarious but we found that it just distracts from the realism of the game. Though the comments in 99 get a bit repetitive (in fact the rink announcer commentary is identical in 2002), at least they are similar to what you could actually hear watching a real game. 2002 turns the game into a joke. It's like having Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football; you don't need annoying analogies everytime someone goes up and down the ice. 99 kept the color comments spaced out much better and more in line with reality.
As for the ability to control every aspect of the game, I find that also takes away from the realism. If I have the option of having an unbeatable goalie why wouldn't I take it? 99 was a great game in that each team was based on the real-life abilities of that team. If you want to win with a weaker team, you have to be a better player, not merely tweak and tune the options menu.
To be fare I'm sure there are aspects of the game that we couldn't pssibly have found in an hours time, but a great game should WOW you right from the get go and make you want to explore more, this game made it seem like a chore to find aspects to like. We'll try NHL 2000 for Playstation instead and see what that brings to the table, at least we'll save a few bucks!
it is O.K. July 13, 2002
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
NHL 2002 is a great game when you first buy it. Its is fast paced, action packed, and just plain fun. but after a while you start losing interest. maybe its because the season is to long, or that you play it 24/7. then it just becomes one of your old games that you dont play to much. if the could have like cheats for extra special teams and stuff it might be more fun, but unfortuatley NHL 2002 doesnt have that. i think this is just a waste of money considering how boring it gets....
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