Platform: Nintendo Gameboy Advance

Publisher: Midway Sports

Released: October 2002

Whats Hockey without Hitz

NHL Hitz 2003 unleashes a total hockey experience with visually stunning graphics, lightning-fast, adrenaline-style hockey animations, much improved artificial intelligence, numerous all-new gameplay modes and realistic NHL attributes.

NHL Hitz 20-03 lets you take control of your favorite NHL teams in a 3-on-3 (plus computer-controlled goalies) match-up. When a match begins you choose a center, winger and defenseman from your team's roster. Each player is rated in six categories, including Speed, Passing and Shooting.

Adroit dekes, powerful slap-shots and bone-jarring checks are all at your disposal in this arcade-style hockey game. Of course, it wouldn't be hockey nor Hitz if fisticuffs didn't transpire every now and then.

Nor would it be Hitz without a multiplayer mode. Brush up on your gloating, and be sure you have GBAs and Game Paks for every player and enough GBA Game Link cables to connect all systems.

You can choose from three difficulty settings and set offensive and defensive strategies.

Season Mode let you play a full season of 82 games. You can also choose an abbreviated schedule or skip right to the Playoffs. Arenas are all identical, but the appropriate team logos and uniforms represent the Home and Away teams.

Press

"The GBA version doesn't have the minigames of the GCN version, but the core game is loads of fun [Jan 2003, p176] 80%." - Nintendo Power Magazine

"With another round of development on the title, it's possible that the Game Boy Advanced version of the series can match the consile version in almost every way." - IGN