NHL Blades of Steel '99

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NHL Blades of Steel '99
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North American Nintendo 64 cover art, featuring Jaromír Jágr of Penguins
Developer(s) Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka (N64)
Climax Studios (GBC)
Publisher(s) Konami
Platform(s) Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color
ReleaseNintendo 64
  • NA: April 5, 1999
  • EU: September 1999
Game Boy Color
July 6, 1999
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

NHL Blades of Steel '99, known as NHL Pro 99 in Europe, is an ice hockey game for Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color (as NHL Blades of Steel). The N64 version has Controller Pak and Rumble Pak support. NHL Blades of Steel '99 is the second game in the Blades of Steel series following Blades of Steel for the NES. The third and last game in the series, NHL Blades of Steel 2000 , was released for the PlayStation.

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Features

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [1] [2] IGN said of the N64 version, "Konami's NHL Blades of Steel '99 title was plagued by terrible gameplay and horrible control and few nice touches didn't compensate for a disappointing and generally dull game." [10] Nintendo Power gave the same console version a mixed review over a month before it was released stateside, [12] while the same magazine gave the GBC version a mixed review over two months before it was released. [11]

Notes

  1. ↑ In Electronic Gaming Monthly 's review of the Nintendo 64 version, four critics gave it different scores: 4.5/10, 3.5/10, 6.5/10, and 6/10.
  2. ↑ In GameFan 's review of the Nintendo 64 version, one critic gave it 74, and the other 83.
  3. ↑ GamePro gave the Nintendo 64 version two 3/5 scores for graphics and overall fun factor, 3.5/5 for sound, and 2.5/5 for control.

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