Product ReviewsNHL 2004 (Microsoft Xbox, 2003)

If you like Defensive hockey this game is for you!!

NHL 2004

If you like Defensive hockey this game is for you!!

This game introduced the Dynasty mode to the EA Sports NHL series. NHL 2004 focused on a more defensive gameplay model. Scoring goals was pretty difficult at first but once you master the controls the game got pretty easy.

The game also included an updated fighting system and a manual deke control button. The figthing was great but the manual deke button made the game look very choppy and extremely amateur.

Final Verdict:

3/5

Rent or Buy?: If you're looking for a good hockey game from this era of EA Sports video games, pick up NHL 06 or even NHL 07. This game was good, but doesn't compare to those two.

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Fun; shows its age but there's enough here to make it an enjoyable change-of-pace not just a regression

A seminal game in the NHL franchise; the first time you could bank the puck off a goalie rather than it teleporting into his mitt the instant it touched any part of his body. The first time a goalie could make an impossible save and I was impressed by the save rather than feeling the game cheated.
I mean, it's from 2004; the graphics are good... for 2004. It's clearly aged in many ways, but it's still fun to play. And even some of the "problems" are interesting wrinkles, the downside of the less polished draft classes and players (no player types, relatively basic stats, uninteresting player potential), no AHL teams, at least make it *different* than the newer games in the series. If it was the same, just less polished in every area, then it wouldn't be worth playing. But the differences aren't simply a matter of caliber, NHL 2004 had a different approach to the series. The GM is as deep as its every been, and the gameplay is mostly realistic compared to, say, an arcade-style game like Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey, but there's enough of an arcade-feel to it that I'm less bothered by unrealistic moments.
Also, the other team commits penalties and gets called for it. Not enough, but much more frequently than in today's games; you're not going to have 1 PP per game.Read full review...

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: second.sale

some times u get a diamond in a ruff from EA games!!!

I not crazy about EA games as a software company!!! but some time even tho they are rare times!!! they put out a really great game & I have a hard time saying that about a EA games game but this one is one of those games that is a must have hockey game if u are a sports fan or a hockey fan it is loaded with everything u can imagine in a hockey I think EA games when releasing this game they must of had mind laps or fell on there heads what ever the case might be it's a really well made hockey game Read full review...

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: new | Sold by: tornado-c5

soooooo fun

old but gold!! they haven't improved much over the years on this awesome game play

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: itembazaar

Probably the best Hockey game ever

Just bought it for collection purposes

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: britad1

NHL 04...it’s in the game

Awesome sauce

Verified purchase:  Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: colres_online

Game does not read.

When I put the game into the xbox it is unable to read the disc. I tried cleaning it and still nothing.