NHL 09

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  • Summary: Be A Pro: NHL 09 puts you on the ice with a dynamic new camera as you play the role of one player on a team. With pop-up feedback given on your performance as you play, you know exactly where you’re excelling and what parts of your game need improvement.
    Be A Pro starts your career off in    Be A Pro: NHL 09 puts you on the ice with a dynamic new camera as you play the role of one player on a team. With pop-up feedback given on your performance as you play, you know exactly where you’re excelling and what parts of your game need improvement.
    Be A Pro starts your career off in the ranks of the NHL and challenges you to become one of the best in the league. Rookie Controls: Hit, pass, shoot, and score using the simplified two-button control system. Now even players new to the game can challenge the best of the best. European Leagues - Reflecting the global appeal of the sport, NHL 09 has full dynasty modes for the official Swedish, Finnish, Czech and German Leagues as well introducing, for the first time ever, a season mode for the Russian Super League. [Electronic Arts]    … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Gamers.at
    89
    Whoever is not immediately enthralled by the graphic of the game will at latest be as soon as he tried the 6-vs.-6-online- or the “be a pro”-mode. EA never truly manages to release a proper sequel – but NHL09 should be counted among the top-3 sports games. [Issue # 16]
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  2. Worth Playing
    89
    NHL 09 is as real of a hockey game as it can get. It looks great, sounds good (if repetitive), plays great and has an amazing set of features.
  3. GameStar
    71
    It's still a good hockey game, but all in all it's the same game sold four years in a row anyway. While EA Sports polishes the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game, it neglects the PC version, e.g. it's impossible to change the aspect ratio to 16:9 and the maximum resolution is 1280x1024. Time for 2K Sports to step in with it's NHL 2k- series. It worked for NBA 2k9.
  4. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    60
    The best old engine you can get. PC players can be happy, all new game modes are present but regardless of these improvements the computer version is just a shade of the console ones. [Dec 2008]
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  5. IGN
    55
    At a price of twenty-dollars this game would have been easier to recommend but at a steeper forty-dollars there's no way that people should invest in an experience that they could have gotten years ago.
  6. Play (Poland)
    40
    It's a disgrace that this crude port which wouldn't look out of place on PlayStation 2 is pushed on helpless hockey fans worldwide. [Feb 2009]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 9 out of 14
  1. JanisLatvia
    Jan 16, 2016
    10
    Real good game It doesn't look like it would have 8 years this year because you see graphics are real better in next parts of NHL games but iReal good game It doesn't look like it would have 8 years this year because you see graphics are real better in next parts of NHL games but i feel like i would never play better than 09 because i just love the game!… Expand
  2. mohaczap
    Sep 4, 2020
    8
    I got this game in 2016 and have played it for hundreds of hours. It's a great game if it were from the PS2 era, however, it was made duringI got this game in 2016 and have played it for hundreds of hours. It's a great game if it were from the PS2 era, however, it was made during the 360/PS3 era and it's lacking in many aspects. It's a robust game and with mods, the updated rosters and jerseys made it a nice experience. Hopefully, the NHL series comes back on PC, but its EA so I have my doubts.… Expand
  4. 4ya5h1
    Jun 29, 2022
    8
    if we speak of it as a game of 2008 then its hecking gorgeous. last nhl game, and imho the best one. ofc sometimes it feels really old, thereif we speak of it as a game of 2008 then its hecking gorgeous. last nhl game, and imho the best one. ofc sometimes it feels really old, there are some bad things in gameplay, but overall there is nothing terrible.
    PS. LETS GO RANGERS    … Expand
  5. AndyE
    Dec 2, 2008
    2
    I played 09 on PS3 and got really excited and wanted to buy this on PC. Thank god I tried it first because this is really really bad. I was I played 09 on PS3 and got really excited and wanted to buy this on PC. Thank god I tried it first because this is really really bad. I was hoping that the new puck control would be so great with keyboard and mouse but nope. This is the same shit I played about 5 years ago.… Expand
  6. Flack007
    Oct 16, 2014
    1
    NHL 2004 with updated roster. Nothing at all. The worst hockey game for PC. Waste of money, waste of time. Rather play old versions. Btw it'sNHL 2004 with updated roster. Nothing at all. The worst hockey game for PC. Waste of money, waste of time. Rather play old versions. Btw it's last ice-hockey game for computers, so it's only one reason why to play or buy this game.… Expand
  7. Joe
    Dec 19, 2008
    1
    This would have been an awesome game like...10 years ago. NHL series peaked in 2001-2002 and been dropping like a rock since then. Its truly This would have been an awesome game like...10 years ago. NHL series peaked in 2001-2002 and been dropping like a rock since then. Its truly a disgrace that EA even has the balls to release this game for anything more than free, hell people who pirate the game will probably feel robbed of hard drive space. Yeah its that bad and that's putting it nicely. Another typical EA PS2 to PC port job, almost nothing new, game engine developed in the late 1980's, textures from 2001, horrible resolution support, lack of online support, overall just another turd straight out of the EA poopchute. To think we had games like oblivion setting the bar graphics wise in early 06 and crysis in late 07 and here we are late 08 getting this garbage from EA its just sickening, for a company so big, they produce games with quality so small.… Expand
  8. MarcosE
    Jan 3, 2010
    0
    This game doesnt deverse a 1.... the only positive point: licensed.... nothing more.... the controls are terrible, the response even worst, This game doesnt deverse a 1.... the only positive point: licensed.... nothing more.... the controls are terrible, the response even worst, doesnt have even a 16:9 resolution (NFL 08 have, one Year BEFORE)… Expand

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