An interesting Hockey game to come back to once in a while...
First start off with, the oh so wierd but cool , NHL SKILL Stick. When you first pop in the game in the dicc tray. The game will go into a mini showing of how to use the skill stick and what it is and you CANT skip it. The NHL Skil stick is where Uuse the bottom anologe to shoot\deek. So if you would push it left it would do a wrist shot, right slap shot, so on and so forth. You dont use the pad buttons what so ever. Its really useful in shootouts but when playing a game, I suggest switching to default which switches it to the buttons instead.
As Gamespot said, its a skinny package, its has Dynasty, Shootout, Go now, online, and international. They all provide a time just not enough, the song list is so-so. They couldve provided some hockey favourites but next time I guess.
All the teams seems balanced well and a fair, the ones that usually suck, suck, and the ones that are good, are good.
The 2 announcers for the game are good but they couldve had Lots more to say. Graphics are Incredible ontop of the action and looks like a real hockey game! But upclose, well, lets just say they still have some ajusting to do.
Finally, this game should be pretty cheap since 08 has come out, atleast $19-26. So if your looking for a good time of hockey but want it cheap, I advise you to just go ahead and buy it.