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| NHL 2006 | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 11274
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 0.5 x 7.5
MPN: 14946
Model: 14946
UPC: 014633149463
EAN: 0014633149463
ASIN: B0009Q2KKI
Release Date: September 8, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Sports Sniper Stick - With a flick of the stick, pick your spot and execute brilliant signature shots while controlling the power and location of each shot. Create your own scoring opportunities and go to the net in style | | • | Realistic Puck Momentum (R.P.M.) means the puck is dangerous- hard shots can injure defensemen, shake up goalies in the crease, or knock water bottles off the net to add insult to injury | | • | Classic Deking Control - Movement on the ice is more intuitive as you skate and deke using the stick. Own the ice like the the glory days of the EA Sports classic NHL 94 | | • | Fluid Skating Response - Feel what it's like to skate on an icy surface. Make smoother crossovers as you glide through turns with a more authentic response | | • | Create a player who looks like you, with the new Analog body and facial sculpting controls -- now YOU can raise the cup! |
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Product Description
NHL 2006 gives you a chance to hit the ice&take complete control of every scoring opportunity. Express your shooting style with the new Sniper Stick - fire off pinpointed slap shots or execute sweet backhanders in a precise location with the flick of the stick. All-new deking control adds to your arsenal by letting you skate arond, between, and through opponents while maintaining full puck control. Shoot and score like never before with NHL 2006.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Ridiculous amount of scoring with no defense July 9, 2007
This game looks great on the surface: good graphics, nice depth of creating your own team, playing as a dynasty franchise, etc. but then you actually PLAY a game and everything rotten about this game just calls out to you:
A) I won a game the other night 16-12! There is absolutely no defense or goaltending in this game, the previous reviewer was right when they said that the game is nothing but a continuous stream of end-to-end rushes.
B) The absurd flashy and obnoxious deking. I had been warned by older NHL fans that Commissioner Gary Bettman hates hockey and would rather change the league into the NBA, and playing this game makes me believe that his advisors had a major role in influencing Electronic Arts down this path.
When have you ever watched a real NHL game and seen the first 2 lines of a team perform a dozen deke moves a piece? COME ON, the deking crap is way out of proportion. On a real NHL team maybe one or two players maximum would attempt moves like this and I doubt that they'd even do them once on average in a single game, but in this game it is deke, deke, deke, all the time and it goes on and on and on.
Then when one of these deking forwards finally scores of course his face has to contort and he has to move around real showboating/flashy. The entire tone of this game is totally obnoxious and intentionally LOUD and in your face garbage designed to appeal to the lowest garden variety of meth-head teenager!
Now what can your goalie possibly do against an entire forward line of "magic hat" dekers? ALMOST NOTHING, the goalie flops down on the ice and begs for mercy as soon as the puck gets anywhere near the slot area which strangely enough your so-called Defensemen sure as heck aren't standing there, and as a matter of fact they don't do anything at all besides "hope to check" one of the forwards which is pretty difficult considering that the dekers hop around like an acrobat and as soon as they see you coming they put on another move or pass it to their circus deker buddy. How many teams have these magic dekers? ALL OF THEM!!
Doesn't matter which team you play against they've got a bunch of deking garbage to entertain you with and run your scores up to. One night I got lucky and INJURED Colorado's first two lines of forwards and I won the game 17-1, yes I scored 17 goals because once again not only do you not have any defense but the computer opponent doesn't either. And don't bother thinking that it has anything to do with the Goalies, a 95+ overall goalie in this game still gives up at least 7 or 8 goals a game, and if you think you have a prayer of winning a game with a goalie rated an overall under 80 you might as well just empty your net because he isn't going to stop the puck.
C. The create a team mode is interesting and deep although it too is made foolish by a tremendous error that doesn't remove the players you choose from their original team. How stupid is it? Really stupid, I saw my brother playing a game with his created team and his Kovalchuk got a penalty for slashing Atlanta's Kovalchuk, and there was another game he played in which Joe Thornton played against Boston for his created team and he injured Joe Thornton out of the game. Want something even lamer? For my created team Cale Hulse got in a fight with himself on Phoenix. Yep, Cale Hulse fought himself!! IDIOTIC!!! And there was no reason that EA had to do this, each roster holds 40 players, so if I select Cale Hulse for my Created Team just remove him from the Phoenix roster, is it so impossible to do?
D) If you create a team they don't actually have their own original stadium, you are forced to pick from a list of pre-existing arenas. I was forced to play my home games at the Air Canada Center with huge Toronto Maple Leafs banners hanging over the ice even though my team was the Prince George Lions from British Colombia who played in the Western Conference!
E) The moronic 3 fight limit per game, so wait a minute? I can only have 3 fights a game but I get to see 500 dekes, how about a 3 deke limit EA? Make that limit, you pinheads.
F) The fans in the crowd, oh please, take a close look at the fans behind the net and notice that their faces are turned around, their eyes are literally on the back of their heads, what is this? A 1990 video game? PLEASE SPARE ME, there's no excuse for that kind of pathetic error from a game made in 2005!!!!!
 nhl ps2 January 10, 2007
I bought this game as a gift for my brother for Christmas. He is 26 and loves it. He plays it when he has a break from med. school. Im not sure how easy it is for kids to play. The ordering and shipping process was easy and on time!
 NHL 2006 January 5, 2007
Gave as a gift but he said it wasn't what he thought it was.
Who comes up with this crap? March 23, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Where do I start? The persons involved in the making of this game, should actually try and watch hockey. Lets start out with the rediculous scores, I score over ten goals a game, in dynasty mode, on the difficult level. The game will get into little spurts where the computer is totally unstoppable. I will give you a hint, it all starts when you try and check a player and they will not fall down, even if they are gang checked. Needless to say a few short seconds after this the computer scores, what most of the time is a goal from the book of Doug Henning magic tricks. Also the speratic passing that the computer seems to control, in order for it to get back in the game when falling behind, such as the forward pass that for some reason goes in reverse into my zone. Then the computer player sprouts jets and lets say, a player such as Mike Modano, cant catch them, sometimes it even feels as if they are being held back by a force field and just wont skate. Are you starting to get my drift here? this game is terrible and causes me many hours of swearing at the T.V., as a matter of fact I just got done playing a dynasty game, in which I led 9-1 in the second period, and had to hold on for dear life to win 11-9. I saved by biggest complaint for last, whats up with the goalies? when an AI player gets behind the net, it seems like the defense on my team part like the red sea, and you know its coming but you cant defend it oh yeah the raparound. When this occurs the goalie flops to opposite side of the net, and the AI puts into an empty net. This all seems to happen while my defensive players I'm not controling are hanging out at picnic or something. If your going to buy it save your money and your hair, because it aint worth losing it over. And just an idea for NHL 2007, besides revamping the whole game, hows about something new like a broken stick during a onetimer or slapshot, and making the player go to the bench for a new stick, that would cause some odd man rushes aye? gotta go i've vented enough frustration.
MUST PLAY THIS GAME!!! March 1, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I absolutely love this game! I'm not even sure I liked hockey that much before this game. This definately quenched my thurst for an awsome sports game! I would even say its my favorite game ever!!!!
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