NHL 2K2
NHL 2K is a series of hockey games by 2K Sports for the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, iPhone, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the Wii. Initially discontinued after the release of NHL 2K11 in…
NHL 2K2 is a sport developed by Treyarch, released 14 February 2002 on Dreamcast.
What NHL 2K2 is
NHL 2K2 is a sport game developed by Treyarch and released in 2002. It was published by Sega. It is available on Dreamcast only. It runs on TrueMotion.
The premise, in the publisher's words
NHL 2K is a series of hockey games by 2K Sports for the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, iPhone, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the Wii. Initially discontinued after the release of NHL 2K11 in 2010, the brand was revived on mobile devices in 2014. The games are officially licensed from the National Hockey League and NHL Players Association. While its games were released on consoles, its main competition was EA Sports' NHL video games.
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 2K2 is the 48th of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. The next entry was NHL 2002 in 2002. Its critic score of 81 is 7 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is NHL 09 at 90.
How it was received
NHL 2K2 holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NHL 2K2 launched on 14 February 2002, within three weeks of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Jet Set Radio Future, RalliSport Challenge and Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Jet Set Radio Future, RalliSport Challenge, Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny.
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