Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
As opposed to the more realistic hockey gameplay seen in Electronic Arts' NHL series, the game featured a more unrealistic arcade-style of gameplay, featuring moves such as "power saves", which caused the…
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey is a sport developed by Williams Entertainment, released 1 October 1996 on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Arcade.
What Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey is
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey is a sport game developed by Williams Entertainment and released in 1996. It was published by Atari Games. It is available on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Arcade. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
As opposed to the more realistic hockey gameplay seen in Electronic Arts' NHL series, the game featured a more unrealistic arcade-style of gameplay, featuring moves such as "power saves", which caused the goaltender to briefly transform into a brick wall, "power shots", which would set the net on fire or knock the goalie into the net, and "power checks", which would send an ambulance across the top of the screen. It featured high-scoring games and over-the-top fights. There was also a simulation mode for those looking for more realistic gameplay. The game allowed the creation of profiles and would keep track of important individual and team stats, including goals, assists, and wins, among…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the NHL series
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey is the 18th of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. The next entry was NHL Face Off '97 in 1996. Its critic score of 71 is 3 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is NHL 09 at 90.
How it was received
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey launched on 1 October 1996, within three weeks of Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: Circle of Blood, Wipeout XL, Mortal Kombat Trilogy.
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