Don't know if anyone ever found fixes for those 2 things but if they did I would give it another shot. Two things that really hurt it for me though were the lack of creativity on Offense by the AI and lack of scoring by D-men. I hope they draw those up from scratch so they look and animate better in the future. I also don't like the character models being hunched over. I know it's a great game but it lacks an excitemant factor for me. Was the skating any smoother on the PC than the console. I've never played any of the WE series, but I've read that it's fantastic.ĭid you do your own tweaks to NHL 2004 or did you download from somewhere. I think I'd have to give a slight nod to 2k5, but 2004 is by far EA's best effort.Ģk5's gameplay is second to none, and for me it provides the most realistic brand of hockey (I prefer a sim style game). To me it's a toss up between NHL 2004 and ESPN 2k5. I have tweaked rosters and settings for 2004 that provide some pretty great games.īest hockey game of all time? Tough one. I am.I mostly play ESPN NHL 2k5, but I also play NHL 2004 (PC) quite a bit. I'm using his sliders as well and they work very well in franchise. This forecastor guy went above and beyound the call of duty with his work and it shows. So far the game is 100% more enjoyable with the edited rosters and files. The graphics and animations are top of the line as are the crowd noise and arena noise on surround sound. I notice in last years game that the game played more realistically with less speed and hitting as the season wore on and players became less perfect (fatigue, injuries, etc). I'm going to try a franchise with these modified files. This alone makes the game a lot more tolerable because of the risk/reward factor. These sliders were useless on the consloe version and it was impossible to miss hits. One thing I've noticed is unlike the console version if you turn hit difficulty way up and bruise control way down it does make it easy to wiff on a hit opening your goalie up for a one on one confrontation. I got it to work finally thanks for your help. viv files), they should be able to be used to overwrite or replace any file within the NHL 2005 directory. The zip file is compressed, but once the contents are unzipped (all of the.

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