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Power-ups added to the intensity of scoring goals and players would even catch on fire when they were performing well. Big hits would send players flying through the glass and into the stands, and the play wouldn’t stop. The arcade-style 3-on-3 hockey game had no rules, no penalties - just chaotic action-packed plays.

The game of hockey is generally viewed as a wildly fast-paced sport with bone-crushing collisions NHL Hitz took that concept to the extreme. Goals could be scored not just in the offensive zone, but from all areas of the ice, prompting the signature goalie goal. Skill plays were more successful and easier pulled off using the right joystick in charge for stickhandling and dekeing. New features such as the hip-check would send players hurling over one another. This gave a more realistic and responsive feeling to the game and opened up what players could do on the ice. Mechanically, NHL 2011 revolutionized how we played the game today with its revolutionary physics-based game engine.

This opened a whole new aspect to grinding NHL games and is a huge reason for the game’s popularity today. Players would then face off against one another in online matches and climb the HUT ranks. The NHL Ultimate Team or also known in short as HUT allowed players to build their very own team.

With games like FIFA and Madden already having an Ultimate Team mode, it was about time NHL had one. NHL 2011 paved a new path for the series with NHL Ultimate Team. Nonetheless, we are dying to know just as much as you what NHL games make the top five of all time. With so many iterations of the game, it can be hard to single out the best ones, however, some gamers are still playing some of the classics today. Even 2K produced some notable NHL games, such as NHL 2K11. While hockey video games date back all the way to 1979 with Hockey!/Soccer!, the genre has seen many notable installments such as Slap Shot by Sega and Blades of Steel by Konami. The hockey games genre has been conquered by EA, with 31 installments in the NHL video game series since 1991. Since the NHL video game series inception back in 1991 with the original NHL Hockey, gamers and hockey fans alike haven’t been able to get enough of the fast-paced, hard-hitting, skill-based sports game that we know today.