NHL 2003
by EA Sports

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Video Game Reviews of NHL 2003

Customer Review: Fun but flawed
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm not usually big on sports simulation, but this one is pretty good. It isn't to tough and the options are good(love the create a player mode). I liked the fact that with create players and trading you could take the crappiest team in the league and make them the best(which I couldn't do on the last NHL game I bought which was 94 on the old Sega Genesis.) Or vice versa. Lol. The P.A's hilarious(my favourite is when he announces that their accepting resumes for a new p.a(public address) man. And it's the hometeam that wants to get rid of him. Kudo's for not making the p.a just bland and repeating the same thing about goals and such.

The Bad

Well there's a few bad points to it. Your AI controlled players on your team are next to useless(they give incoming forward wide berths in your zone. and seem to skate senselessly around) Cheap goal(Backhands going in on in from the bluline? 100mph slapshots from right in front of the net?) and as some have pointed out already, the AI controlled team goes on scoring spurts where everytime they shoot the puck at your net it goes in. But there's a balance they forgot to mention that you also go on these type of spurts and they don't happen in every game. But it's still annoying when your up 3 goals near the end of the last period and your suddenly down 2 with 10 seconds to go. Also the animations and p.a stuff is a bit repetetive.

The Ugly

Why do all the coaches look the same?(plus the NHL president) and is it just me or do all the coaches look like a young Vince Mcmahon?

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