NHL2K6 Metareview

I got NHL2K6 to try out (rental) but I was REALLY disappointed.  I don’t know if the team that developed this software is from Canada but if they are then they should be flogged, whipped, beaten and clubbed with a broken hockey stick.  This game is just plain bad, especially if you are a hockey fan.
The voice-overs are weak and extremely cheesy.  The gameplay looks like something taken back from the NES or earlier.  The graphics for a next gen system look like pure ass and I’m sure NHL98 I have for my PC could easily compete with it.  The amount of player control is very good and probably would take a while to really master but playing in single player mode these expert control mechanisms are irrelevant.  I didn’t take the game online but possibly the control schemes would be of value there but the game left such a negative impression on me I couldn’t bother to take the game online.  I played it for about 1.5 hours and returned it as it was a huge disappointment.  
This is in pretty sharp contrast to the overall positive impression FIFA:RTWC left on me.  I would say that NHL2K6 is the worst 360 game I’ve played, even worse than PDZ which I had as my gamer motto:  “PDZ=garbage”.  That doesn’t say much for NHL2K6