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From Live the experience and taste the emotion of NHL 2001. The game features: a new challenge mode-earn more player rewards like extra boosts of speed, shot power or accuracy, aggressiveness, and fighting; improved defensive AI; enhanced user control for shot blocking and body checks. Feel the game momentum change. Hear the excitement build! See it onscreen-player and team attributes increase after key goals or winning a fight. New camera angles let you watch up-close spectacular goalie saves, taunting, replays and post victory celebrations New Mo-Cap delivers real big hits, shots, skate cycles, dekes, and fighting moves seen in the game.

Two types of player controls allow easy pick-up-and-play and advanced controls for die hard fans. NHL 2001 includes all 30 NHL teams and players, including the expansion Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild; and 20 International teams, including new teams Ukraine and Latvia.

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The series is known and popular for its unique style: it focuses on fast-paced hockey with an arcade feeling to deliver entertaining hockey to gamers, but features neither injuries nor. As the name suggests, the series has a lot of hard hitting which is more often appealing to casual hockey fans than hardcore ones. The first two games, and, feature 3-on-3 (3 skaters, 1 goaltender) hockey., however, goes a step further, featuring 5-on-5 hockey. The NHL Hitz series has, apart from the (NHL) license, also the (IIHF) license, allowing the series to use the national teams' official jerseys. Contents.

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NHL Hitz 2002 is the first game of the series, developed. It was released in September/November 2001 in, and in March/May 2002 in the, except for the PS2 version which was released for PAL already in November 2001. During gameplay, three skaters and one in each team are on the ice, and three skaters in each team are on the bench. Because of this, only three fights may occur in each game; any player that loses a fight is taken out of the game permanently. If a player scores an uninterrupted (i.e. Three goals in a row), that player becomes 'On Fire', meaning that the player can make more powerful shots and is tougher to knock down.

'Team Fire', similar to 'On Fire', can be achieved if the team scores three uninterrupted in a row. NHL Hitz 2003 is the last game of the series to use 3-on-3 hockey, developed by and. It was released between September–November 2002 in both North America and the PAL regions. Exient Entertainment were called up to exclusively make a handheld version of the game for the (GBA). The GBA version exclusively can be linked up with four GBA's for four different players in a single game. In gameplay, goalies can stick-handle the puck around, and take a shot on the other net to sometimes score.

The rosters are shortened to mainly starters and fan favorites (such as and ), with far fewer free agents. The game uniquely includes a rule that can be set to win the game for one of the teams whenever that team leads by a.

For example, if the winning goal difference is set to 5, the first team to lead by five goals automatically wins the game. If the winning goal difference is set to 1, the game is practically a game. NHL Hitz Pro was developed by and released between September–November 2003.

It is the only game in the series to include 5-on-5 gameplay. The game has many game modes, one of the most popular being the 'Pick-Up Hockey' game mode, where the game would turn into either a roller, street, or pond hockey match-up between two amateur teams. The game further includes an exclusive 'Hockey School', where former NHL coach and NHL players help out newbies. See also.