Options include the following: penalties can be toggled on, off, or on except offsides; line changes can be set to automatic, manual or none; and period length can be adjusted to 5, 10 or 15 minutes. NHL FaceOff also features trades, team and individual statistical tracking, full-color player cards, instant replay, an option to create players with twelve different abilities, and signing and releasing free agents (each team can have no more than 25 players). Saving statistics, created players, modified rosters and/or season progress requires the use of a memory card with two to eight blocks free.
The first in the NHL FaceOff series. You'll find one-timers, a wide selection of checks, slap shots, drop passes, every NHL player and team, and statistics.
Also found in FaceOff includes pretty good AI for the time of the game's release. In terms of sound, FaceOff really tries to recreate an in the arena hockey sound, with the announcer's voice echoing combined with organ music and cheering from the crowd.
General Information:
Developer: Sony Interactive Studios America
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.
Release Date: 1995
Rated: Everyone
Console Availability:
Sony Playstation only
Features:
NHL Season Play: Exhibition, 84 games season, Playoffs & Stanley Cup modes.
Team Management: Make players trades and create your own players to build a dynasty.
Multiple Playing Perspectives: 4 different interactive playing views, you choose the camera angle!
Real Hockey animation: 5 types of checks, slapshots, one-timers, multiple goalie saves, dekes defenders & goalie, speed burst and more!
Fully Interactive 3D Environment: Players on the bench, the crowd and the official will interact in the action.
Real Players attributes: Players' abilities all based upon their actual NHL player stats. Plus, NHL players' pictures are in the game.
Other Features:
Skate your way across the ice of such modes as Exhibition, Playoff, and Stanley Cup
Featuring over 650 NHL players including Chelios, Federov, LeClair, and Bourque
Select your favorite perspective from four different playing views
Theses are not the actual game screenshots!
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