NHL 06 (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

NHL 06

Hit the ice with EA Sports' NHL 06 for the XBOX. This entry in the NHL series builds on the 2005 version by adding new rules and an up to date rooster that includes just about every big name in the National…

88 6 September 2005

What NHL 06 is

NHL 06 is a simulator game developed by EA Canada and released in 2005. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hit the ice with EA Sports' NHL 06 for the XBOX. This entry in the NHL series builds on the 2005 version by adding new rules and an up to date rooster that includes just about every big name in the National Hockey League. NHL 06 includes everything from NHL 05, including the revamped shooting controls. New to the 2006 version is the use of the left analog stick for deking, which in hockey terms means to dodge and fake out defenders. The right analog stick is used to pull off fancy moves like a spin or between the legs pass. These fancy moves will distract goalkeepers, giving the gamer an opening to shoot. The drawback to these moves is that only superstar characters can pull them off…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the NHL series

NHL 06 is the 63rd of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. The next entry was NHL 2K6 in 2005. Its critic score of 88 is 14 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is NHL 09 at 90.

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How it was received

NHL 06 holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 21 points above the year average.

What it launched against

NHL 06 launched on 6 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

Cheats and codes

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