NHL 10

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NHL 10
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The cover of NHL 10 featuring Patrick Kane
Developer(s) EA Canada
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Series NHL series
Platform(s) PlayStation 3
Xbox 360
Release
  • NA: September 15, 2009
  • AU: September 17, 2009
  • EU: September 18, 2009
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player
Multiplayer (online, local)

NHL 10 is a video game in the NHL series developed and released by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts, and is the 19th game in the series. The game debuted at Hockey Fest '09, a three-day interactive festival celebrating the sport of hockey and the Los Angeles Kings, which took place in downtown Los Angeles from August 28 to 30. [1]

Contents

On October 1, 2011, all online services for NHL 10 were discontinued. [2]

New features

In addition to the standard NHL and AHL leagues, NHL 10 also features the Swedish Elitserien, Finland's SM-liiga, Germany's DEL, and the Czech O2 Extraliga, all of which were featured in the previous installment, NHL 09 . This game also adds a new league, the Swiss National League A. Despite being featured in NHL 09 as the Russian Superleague and being one of the highest-ranked hockey leagues in the world, the Kontinental Hockey League was not featured in NHL 10. Like the previous game, NHL 10 features national teams from multiple countries; however they are not licensed by the IIHF and as such, the rosters used are not the official ones, and some countries' teams such as Great Britain's, Italy's, and Japan's had to use fictional players on the rosters due to the lack of players and teams from their respective countries in the game.

Reception

The game received "generally favorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [4] [5]

During the 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated NHL 10 for "Sports Game of the Year". [17]

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