NHL HOCKEY '97
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Last updated 1997-10-27
  • Added a link to a new opened NHL 97 roster update page. He will update his rosters weekly. Go to JT's NHL97 weekly update for more info

    • Go here for my new NHL '98 section
    So you found your way in to my NHL97 page? Well, welcome in. This page is totally dedicated to the newest release from EA SPORTS. The graphics are more real than NHL96 but still is very similar. This game is the best game ever and if you haven't got it yet, then go and buy it!

    These are the new game features: Requiered: Recommended: I have just bought a new computer and it looks like this: Supported:
    Some info on NHL HOCKEY '97
    GAMEPLAY:
    It's much better gameplay than NHL 96. The defence is much better and they slide to cover the goalie when you shoot and tries to check anyone who tries to score a goal. In the offence you have better control of your players and everything you do looks real.
    FEATURES:
    This version of the game has all the features of the past versions and a few new ones. For example, they added motion capture to the graphics and actually managed to paste player faces onto the graphics, so Mario Lemieux really looks like Mario Lemieux, and some players also have that goat beard in their face, cool! Play-by play is another new one! The goalie control is out. 3-D polygons are now used for player graphics so, they look real! The goalies make vey nice saves! 3rd jerseys are now also included along with the new teams and uniforms (including Phoenix Coyotes). The FIGHTING is still here and it is fun to do. I haven't yet done a penalty shot, I can't get it. When I get a breakaway and get checked in the back then it's just a penalty but not a penalty shot.

    NATIONAL TEAMS: Now you can play with 5 National Teams. They are: Team Canada, Team USA, Team Russia, Team Scandinavia and Team Europe. In Team Scandinavia there are only players from Sweden and Finland in it, and in Team Europe there are players from all around Europe, The Chech Republic, Germany (Uwe Krupp). In Team USA, Canada and Russia you can figure it out for yourself what players are in there!

    ALL-STAR TEAMS: You can play with either All-Star West or East, but you could do that in NHL 96 too.

    MY THOUGHTS ABOUT NHL HOCKEY '97: I think it is the best game ever, except for some things: The play-by-play sound do mix the names after a while, the goalie can hold the puck without the referee blows his whistle so if you throw out the puck a player in the other team can take the puck and score. The game crashes sometimes. You can even score right after the face-off, you can face-off towards the goalie and it can slide through his skates (just once in a game) and you need a quite fast computer to play it smoothly. You can't save a game that you are playing. Here are the good things: They shoot much faster (better) than in NHL '96 and they skate very naturally just like in reality. The controls are much better. The goalies makes very nice saves, he can slide and get the puck with his blocker. The graphics are more real and they have pasted the faces to the players so the players looks real if you replay and zoom at the players. The sounds are great. I just dig the music that is on when you look at the stats and so on. So finally, everyone who hasn't got it: GO AND BUY IT!
    NHL 97 Patch NEWS!!!
     If you have heard about that Patch that will take care of all the bugs, these are some of the fixes that it will do:

    1. There will be Cyrix support (I can't give you specific chips, though).
    2. The game crashing problems should all be taken care of.
    3. The official will blow the whistle when the goalie gets the puck.
    4. The play-by-playfile will be loaded from the CD before each game so that it can't get corrupted.

    The NHL 97 (EA) patch is here!!!! Go here and get it

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