Thursday 14 February, 2008

Game Entry #2

Gameplay
This game is great for hockey fans and to play two player, against or on the same team, with another person. It’s easy to reenact your favorite hockey teams and players. All the trash talking that is done in the NHL can be talked or brought up while playing this game. The most frustrating part of this game is being faked out or pressing block to soon because your player dives on the ground and the opponent gets a break away. The best part is scoring because it takes some skill to quickly pass and get a shot off.

Design
This game is played inside a hockey arena and there are different camera angles to choose from. My favorite one is facing up; where the camera is behind the player and moving up the screen to score and down to defend the goal. Just like sports on TV whenever a team scores a goal or a player does an outstanding play, there is a replay of the highlight. These are fun to watch after scoring or at the end of each period. Controlling the puck is something the player can really do by moving the sticks of the hockey players, this way they can fake or avoid having the puck stolen. There are wrist shots which are good for up close shooting, but for farther shots you can do a slap shot which is a hard shot for the goalie to block.

This is rather short and shallow. More elaboration on the gameplay and a deeper analysis would help. You only really talk more about the gameplay in the design section, so really, any analysis at all would be good.

Amy Leek (grader)