Phhh, big deal, so the goalies can dive around. I remember back in the day where goalies didn't even wear masks! If they took a 100mph slapshot in the mouth, they'd stay in the game!
SEGA SPORTS NHL 2K3 DELIVERS NEW DEPTH WITH INNOVATIVE REACTIVE GOALIE
POSITIONING
New Goalie System Makes Players' Abilities More True to Life; NHL 2K3 Offers
Other Notable Industry "Firsts"
SAN FRANCISCO - (November 7, 2002) - SEGA® of America, Inc. announced
today a hat-trick of innovative game features for "SEGA Sports™ NHL®
2K3" that will send video game pucks to the back of the net. Hitting store
shelves next week for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system,
followed soon after by the launch on the Xbox™ video game system from
Microsoft® and the Nintendo GameCube™, "SEGA Sports NHL 2K3" is
revolutionizing the way hockey is played with new features not found in
other hockey video games.
With an all-new goalie system called Reactive Goalie Positioning, "SEGA
Sports NHL 2K3" allows goaltenders to react to slap shots, wristers,
one-timers and deflections with all the moves and abilities of their
real-life counterparts. While other hockey games feature goalies without
specific player attributes, who attempt saves with limited movements, "SEGA
Sports NHL 2K3" shows goalies playing the position as it is meant to be
played. In "NHL 2K3," goalies can move side-to-side, and from dive to save,
without ever having to return to a center or idle position, allowing them to
make save upon save with the most realistic goalie maneuvers of any hockey
video game.
"The days of static goalies with limited and unrealistic movements are
over," says Greg Thomas, president of Visual Concepts Entertainment, a SEGA
development studio. "Goalies use every limb to try and stop pucks from
going to the back of the net. That is how the game of hockey is played, so
that's exactly how we want 'NHL 2K3' to be played."
Also new in "SEGA Sports NHL 2K3" is Complete Lines Control. Gone are the
days of flipping back to the menu to set offensive and defensive strategies.
Now gamers have the ability to rotate offensive, defensive, power play and
penalty kill lines independently and set strategies for each of these lines
on the fly.
Two other video hockey game firsts are featured in "SEGA Sports NHL 2K3,"
including new Board Pinning, where gamers can battle it out for the puck up
against the boards. With the ability to pin players against the boards and
dig for the puck with multiple control options, "grinding for the puck" has
taken on a whole new meaning.