NHL Face Off '97
NHL FACEOFF '97 has all the basic features you've come to expect from a hockey game. All 26 NHL teams from the 1997 season are included, and you'll find all the players as well. The Season mode lets you take a…
NHL Face Off '97 is a sport, released 23 October 1996 on PlayStation.
What NHL Face Off '97 is
NHL Face Off '97 was released in 1996. It is available on PlayStation only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
NHL FACEOFF '97 has all the basic features you've come to expect from a hockey game. All 26 NHL teams from the 1997 season are included, and you'll find all the players as well. The Season mode lets you take a team through a full slate of games while you keep an eye on how the rest of the league is doing. Players can be traded from one team to another, and created as well. This is Sony's first PlayStation hockey series, and graphically it is considered one of the best-looking hockey games ever to appear on the system. You'll find all the action of the real game here, including wicked slap shots, hard body checks, and plenty of fancy skating and stick handling. Up to eight human players can…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the NHL series
NHL Face Off '97 is the 19th of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. The next entry was NHL 97 in 1996. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is NHL 09 at 90.
How it was received
NHL Face Off '97 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 70% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NHL Face Off '97 launched on 23 October 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Twisted Metal 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Twisted Metal 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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