NHL FaceOff 2003

NHL FaceOff 2003

The cover of NHL FaceOff 2003, featuring then-Colorado Avalanche defenceman Rob Blake.
Developer(s) SolWorks
Publisher(s) SCEA
Series NHL FaceOff
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Release date(s)
  • NA November 5, 2002
Genre(s) Sports

NHL FaceOff 2003 is an ice hockey video game made by SolWorks and published by Sony Computer Entertainment of America, released on the PlayStation 2. It features then-Colorado Avalanche defenceman Rob Blake on its cover. Mike Emrick and Darren Pang return from the game's predecessor, NHL FaceOff 2001, to provide commentary.

Features

New features in this installment of the NHL FaceOff series include a Career Mode, in which you control the General Manager of your favourite hockey team, doing managerial duties such as signing players, making trades and drafting. It also introduces a fully revamped game engine with over 700 new animations, as well as redesigned player and arena models.

The game was also the first “FaceOff” to be made exclusively for the PlayStation 2, as well as the first one without a version for the original PlayStation.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings59%[1]
Metacritic55/100[2]
Review scores
PublicationScore
GameSpot4.6/10[3]
GameSpy[4]
GameZone6.9/10[5]
IGN5.2/10[6]
Official PlayStation Magazine (US)[7]
PlayStation Magazine6/10[8]
X-Play[9]

NHL FaceOff 2003 was met with mixed to negative reviews from critics. GameRankings gave it a score of 59%,[1] while Metacritic gave it 55 out of 100.[2]

IGN gave it a “Mediocre” rating of 5.2 out of 10, with reviewer Chris Roper stating that "The career mode is there, but you have to actually play the game to use it. The game also supports eight players, but you'll have to find others who want to play it first.”[6] GameSpot gave the game 4.6 out of 10, indicating “Poor” status. Game reviewer Craig Beers wrote that "NHL FaceOff 2003 is a substandard hockey game [...] Everything this game tries to do is done better in other hockey games like EA's NHL series.”[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "NHL FaceOff 2003 for PlayStation 2". GameRankings. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NHL FaceOff 2003 for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Beers, Craig (November 1, 2002). "NHL FaceOff 2003 Review". GameSpot. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  4. ↑ Steinberg, Steve (November 26, 2002). "GameSpy: NHL FaceOff 2003". GameSpy. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  5. ↑ Lafferty, Michael (November 12, 2002). "NHL FaceOff 2003 - PS2 - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on November 6, 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Roper, Chris (November 5, 2002). "NHL FaceOff 2003". IGN. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ Zuniga, Todd (January 2003). "NHL FaceOff 2003". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine: 134. Archived from the original on March 29, 2004. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Review: NHL FaceOff 2003". PSM: 44. December 25, 2002.
  9. ↑ Baldwin, Michael (November 27, 2002). "'NHL FaceOff 2003' (PS2) Review". X-Play. Archived from the original on November 26, 2002. Retrieved April 27, 2015.

External links

Preceded by
NHL FaceOff 2001		 NHL FaceOff 2003
2002 		Succeeded by
Gretzky NHL 2005