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77/100
Critics2 reviews
NHL Slapshot cover

2010 · EA Vancouver · Ice hockey · Sports

NHL Slapshot

Nintendo exclusive

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

Released
7 September 2010
Platforms
Wii
Genres
Ice hockeySports
Developers
EA Vancouver
Publishers
EA Sports
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Third person
Country
Canada
Age ratings
ESRB E
Languages
English

About

NHL Slapshot is EA Sports' first ice hockey video game on the Wii, released in 2010. It was the first game in the NHL series since NHL 2005 to receive an Everyone rating from the ESRB, mainly because the game does not include fighting.

Keywords

  • ice hockey
  • national hockey league
  • ice skating
  • artificial intelligence
  • licensed game
  • platform exclusive
  • polygonal 3d
  • character creation
  • pax prime 2010

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Reception

The game received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
Wii7 September 2010North America · Europe 16 September 2010 · Australia 16 September 2010

Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update

Title ids and disc serials by release
PlatformTitle IDRegionLatest update
WiiSHYP69Europe—
SHYE69North America—

Box artone per regional release we hold art for

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