NHL Hitz Pro
NHL Hitz Pro is an ice hockey video game developed by Next Level Games and published by Midway Games. It's the third and final game of the NHL Hitz series. It was released on September 25, 2003, for the…
NHL Hitz Pro is a sport developed by Next Level Games, released 25 September 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What NHL Hitz Pro is
NHL Hitz Pro is a sport game developed by Next Level Games and released in 2003. It was published by Midway Games. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
NHL Hitz Pro is an ice hockey video game developed by Next Level Games and published by Midway Games. It's the third and final game of the NHL Hitz series. It was released on September 25, 2003, for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Xbox. Unlike the previous titles in the series, this game has 5-on-5 gameplay instead of the usual 3-on-3 gameplay with the earlier titles. Despite that fact, however, the game does not include penalty shots, and it is still an arcade-type hockey game like its predecessors. It also has, as the name suggests, a lot of hard hitting, appealing more often to casual hockey fans than hardcore ones. The cover athlete of the game is Nicklas Lidström, and…
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 Hitz Pro is the 56th of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. The next entry was NHL Rivals 2004 in 2003. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is NHL 09 at 90.
How it was received
NHL Hitz Pro holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 70% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NHL Hitz Pro launched on 25 September 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy and The Simpsons: Hit & Run. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run.
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