NHL 07 (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

NHL 07

NHL 07 is an ice hockey video game, released in 2006 as the successor to NHL 06. The game improved the series' gameplay with more realistic features, such as stickhandling and a wider variety of controller…

74 12 September 2006

What NHL 07 is

NHL 07 is a simulator game developed by EA Canada and released in 2006. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

NHL 07 is an ice hockey video game, which was released in 2006. The game improved the series' gameplay with more realistic features, such as stickhandling and a wider variety of controller schemes. As NHL 07 was released on the Xbox 360, this is the first game in the NHL series to be released on a seventh generation console. It was also the last NHL game to be released on the Xbox and the only installment to be released on the PlayStation Portable.

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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 07 is the 66th of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. It arrived 12 months after Gretzky NHL '06. The next entry was NHL 2K7 in 2006. Its critic score of 74 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is NHL 09 at 90.

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How it was received

NHL 07 holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

NHL 07 launched on 12 September 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Pokémon Diamond Version, Test Drive Unlimited and Call of Juarez. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Pokémon Diamond Version, Test Drive Unlimited, Call of Juarez.

Cheats and codes

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