NHL Slapshot
Wayne Gretzky is the game's cover athlete, and also serves as the in-game coach for beginners. This marked the first time that the EA Sports NHL series featured a retired ice hockey player on the cover as well…
NHL Slapshot is a sport developed by EA Canada, released 7 September 2010 on Wii.
What NHL Slapshot is
NHL Slapshot is a sport game developed by EA Canada and released in 2010. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Wayne Gretzky is the game's cover athlete, and also serves as the in-game coach for beginners. This marked the first time that the EA Sports NHL series featured a retired ice hockey player on the cover as well as Wayne Gretzky's first appearance on a cover of a video game since 2006
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 Slapshot is the 79th of 111 entries we hold in the NHL series. The next entry was NHL 11 in 2010. Its critic score of 77 is 3 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is NHL 09 at 90.
How it was received
NHL Slapshot holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NHL Slapshot launched on 7 September 2010, within three weeks of Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Pokémon Black Version. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Pokémon Black Version.
Official trailer
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