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Sega Touts NHL2K3 Goaltender System

by Steven Rodriguez - November 7, 2002, 10:52 am EST
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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!

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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.

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