NHL 07 review!

User Rating: 8.2 | NHL 07 X360
By Beowulfzero | Review Date:
The quality of the visuals, gameplay, and sound are the three main parts of my review for NHL 07 for the XBOX 360. First, the graphics, player models for NHL 07 are the best ever of any hockey game.The graphics are of high quality. However, the animations for the game are very poor because since all the players look like their skating with their feet tied together. Furthermore, it is the framerate that kills the awesome looking player models. For some reason the goalie models always look great from beginning to the end of a game. The quality of the visual design is so good that the framerate will not stop anyone from playing. Two, the gameplay for NHL 07 has many parts. Shooting and puck handling are greatly improved with the skill stick system. Playing offense is the best part of the entire game since there was no actual defensive system implemented into NHL 07. Scoring is awesome! After playing 700+ games I actually scored close to 300pts in a season in 5 min periods with one player. Scoring finally feels natural like when real hockey player's score. Another part of hockey is cycling the puck which is a very difficulty strategy to use in this year's version. If you know how to cycle then you will be able to do it once in every game if you have the correct strategy set. NHL 07 would have gotten max scores for solely its graphics, but the defensive side is not present. The game lacks polish when skating backwards. The defensemen will seemingly glide 10-15 feet away from the front of the net with a small little analog stick push. It is so amazingly bad at times that the only strategy a player has is to leave the defensemen idle in front of the net hoping shots just hit them instead of playing the offensive forward with the puck. There is not much to say about the sound in the game. Everything sounds authentic except slap shots which could be confused with slamming a door.

My personal stats:

700+ games played.
229 pts with one player in a season, 5 min periods. I put the puck control down one and gamespeed down 2.

149 points (129 assist) with my defensemen in one season.
140 goals in one season with a center (229 pts).
85 goals + 113assists in one season with J.Jagr.

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