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NHL Championship 2000 (PS)

Description: Genre: Sports

Newest Review: ... a game that deserves to rival EA's NHL games, in the same way that Konami's ISS franchise keeps tripping up the FIFA ... more

... series when the ref isn't looking. NHL Championship 2000 looks so similar to NHL '99 that it's difficult to tell them apart. Enhanced with FMV snippets of body-checking, puck-skimming rink action, Activision's ice sim structures its gameplay around some excellent TV-style presentation. So authentic are the multiple camera angles, the pop-up stats and the real-time commentary, it's like being able to control your own live TV coverage. The superbly textures, motion-captured players glide realisti...more

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NHL Championship 2000 (PS): Not another game involving a toilet freshener! (481 words)
by - written on 02/09/01
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NHL Championship 2000 - PSX Aiming to succeed where NHL Face Off '99 and NHL Powerplay Hockey failed, Activision's NHL Championship 2000 is a pretender to EA's ice hockey throne. It's a tall order - NHL '99 scored quite a high standard by which all puck-thwackers are now judged, while its inevitable sequel, NHL 2000, seems to be slicker and quicker than ever before. So what, you may ask, does this frost-fest have to offer? Does it have all the officially licensed logo-happy razzmatazz of real ice-hockey? Are all 28 NHL teams represented in such incredible visual detail that you can see their ugly mugs as you play? The answer to ... Read the complete review