Let's start with the options: As you'd expect, you can play one-off exhibition games to your heart's content. Every current nhl team is available, along with two All-Star teams. You can play your way through an entire season, or you can simply launch straight into the knockout-basis playoffs and pretend you've done all the hard work already. There are extensive facilities with which to customise your teams and every one of the 24 teams can be human-controlled. You needn't even play all the games on the same computer: players can export the league database to a floppy disk, take the floppy home with them to play their games, then import and merge the results onto the central database using the extensive League Manager's facilities.
For those of you who've never played an ea Mega Drive game, the first thing you'll notice is how well designed the controls are and how quickly they become intuitive. Button one can best be summarised as the 'subtle' button. This is used to select the player nearest the puck, to pass the puck and to make tackles with the stick - either to steal the puck or to trip the opponent, depending on your timing.
Button two could be looked on as the 'force' button, used to shoot on goal a quick press flicks off a wrist shot, a long hold means a big backswing and massive slapshot , to inject pace into a player's skating and to charge, batter and smash your opponents to the ice or into the boards.
Pressing both buttons at once means your defender attempts to hold an attacker. It's all tried and tested, well thought out and most importantly, the select-the-player-nearest-the-puck bit works well.
Goalies are computer controlled and play to their ratings. All players conduct themselves with intelligence when you're not controlling them which makes it something of a shame when you get your hands on them, really. The sound is universally outstanding through a Sound Blaster. There's everything from the sounds of stick on puck and bone, to authentically tinny organ music.
Crowds scream and howl and boo and are whipped into a frenzy by the crowd-o-meter. There are grunts of pain when you floor an opponent and satisfying smacking noises when the puck hits them in the face. A digitised announcer, complete with slight echo, calls the penalties out, recounts the goals and assists, and the ubiquitous Ron Barr introduces the match and winds down the show when you quit the game. The graphics, from the tv show-style presentation screens to the in-game stuff, are excellent, and the quality of animation is as high as you'd expect if you'd seen the Mega Drive originals.
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