NHL Blades of Steel 2000

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NHL Blades of Steel 2000
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Developer(s) Konami (PS)
Climax Studios (GBC)
Publisher(s) Konami
Platform(s) PlayStation, Game Boy Color
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: February 22, 2000 [1]
  • UK: February 2000 [2]
  • JP: March 30, 2000
Game Boy Color
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

NHL Blades of Steel 2000 [a] is a set of two hockey video games published by Konami for PlayStation and Game Boy Color in 2000. A Nintendo 64 version had been planned (and was even reviewed by Game Informer while in development), [4] but was later cancelled. NHL Blades of Steel 2000 is the third and last game in the Blades of Steel series following Blades of Steel for the NES and NHL Blades of Steel '99 for the Nintendo 64.

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Reception

The Game Boy Color version received average reviews, while the PlayStation version received unfavorable reviews, according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [5] [6] Game Informer gave the latter console version a mixed review while it was still in development. [9] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 27 out of 40. [8]

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: NHL ブレイズ オブ スティール 2000, Hepburn: NHL Bureizu obu Sutīru 2000
  2. ↑ In GameFan 's early viewpoint of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 58 and the other 60.

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