NHL 2K10
NHL 2K10 redefines the sports gaming experience with a new emphasis on social gaming. Whether you’re a die-hard NHL fan or a casual player, NHL 2K10’s pick-up-and-play controls, true-to-life authenticity and variety of on- and off-line multiplayer modes promise hours of entertainment for any gamer.
| 2K Sports NHL 2K10 redefines the sports gaming experience with a new emphasis on social gaming. Whether you’re a die-hard NHL fan or a casual player, NHL 2K10’s combination of pick-up-and-play controls ensuring accessibility, the game’s true-to-life professional hockey authenticity and its variety of on and off-line multiplayer modes promise hours of entertainment for every gamer, regardless of experience level. Key Game Features
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User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Ignore the first 2 reviews, this is a very good game
Ignore the first two reviews. This game is getting MUCH better reviews everywhere else. CNET rated it excellent (4 out of 5 stars [...]), Gamespot gave it an 8.5 out of 10 (can’t post more links right now), and IGN said it is “Impressive” and gave it an 8 out of 10.
Some comments from IGN:
8.0 Gameplay
The core game of hockey is a bit touch-and-go, but once you get the hang of it and start messing with sliders its fun. MotionPlus rocks, even in its preliminary state. More please.
8.5 Lasting Appeal
There’s a near-endless amount of modes. If you can get into the core game, 2K10 is one of the largest feature sets in any Wii product. Online is spotty, but case-by-case.
If you like Wii games this is money well spent. If you prefer 360/PS3, get EA NHL 2010. I play on all three consoles, and this is my current hockey game.
4 Stars From a long time hockey gamer
Now I’ve ben playing video hockey games since hat trick for the atari 7800 so I’ve played a lot of hockey games in my time and in my option this one’s pretty good overall. First off the graphics on the game are actually pretty good considering it’s on the Wii. I mean after seeing the screen shots I agreed with most people that this looked like a psp game at best, but once I played the game it looked a lot more polished then I was expecting. (The only reason anyone might think it would look bad its because they’re comparing it to the HD versions but I’m reviewing the game with the thought that you only have a Wii) As for the rest of the game the sound effects are pretty good and the music is ok though your opinion on this may differ based on your musical tastes. As for the game’s control I played the game without the motion plus attachment but I found the game’s control pretty good overall as my only gripe with it is the checking motion in the game as sometimes it checks and sometime it poke checks but it wasn’t that bad. I also didn’t look to see if you could change it in the options so that might not be a gripe. Sadly I didn’t get a chance to play the game online so I can’t comment on the quality of that. Overall though I found the game to a very good hockey game and easily the best hockey game on the Wii. The only thing I would recommend changing for people who play it is to change the game’s speed setting since the default setting seems a bit slow to me for a hockey game. Other than that though I didn’t have any things I would change about the game.
2 Stars More challenges.
I saw the commercial for this game and decided to get it, but thought about it a little more. My family and I are big hockey fans, we used to go watch games from a minor league and just fell in love with the sport of hockey. I decided to remove this game from my wish list because it has too many options, I think and I was never a big fam of the 2K sports. However, I would be willing to play this game any day of the week, especially because it’s on the wii.
2 Stars Meh. Maybe my expectations were a little too high?
Each of the past two years, I’ve bought EA’s NHL release for the X-box 360 (NHL 2008 and NHL 2009). While both games had a few drawbacks, they were both a lot of fun to play — alone, with friends, and online. By comparison, 2K10 for the Wii is pretty terrible.
The Wii isn’t an HD console, so it wouldn’t really be fair to compare the graphics of this game on the Wii to the graphics of NHL 2009 on the 360; but after playing NHL 2009 on the 360, 2K10 on the Wii is just painful to look at. (I was expecting it to be worse, but I was shocked by how bad they were.)
While I was expecting inferior graphics, I was also expecting the Wiimote-based controls make up for it. Unfortunately, they haven’t. (Even with the Wii MotionPlus adapter.) Maybe it just takes more than a few games to get used to, but even something as simple as passing the puck can be an infuriating process. (The act of passing isn’t difficult, but the act of passing to the player you want to pass to is quite a feat!)
Shooting — an essential part of the game, mind you — is also frustrating. You really do have to take a full swing to get decent power on a slapshot. That’s great, in theory, but with the nunchuck tethered to the Wiimote, it’s tough to get a full swing without getting tangled in the wire. (Maybe someone with a lesser arm-span doesn’t have that problem, but at 6′2″, I’ve found myself running into that problem frequently.) This could probably be corrected with a wireless nunchuck, but I don’t really want to fork over more money for more accessories — especially accessories that duplicate the features of accessories I already have — just to play one game.
The motion-based controls DO make the game more fun, when they work the way you expect them to. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of getting used to; and even when you feel comfortable, you’ll still find yourself wondering what just happened on several occasions per period.
You could play with a classic controller, but at that point, you may as well be playing on a graphically-superior console.
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