First of all what a ridiculous title for a game, it should be called Hockey A Go Go or something similar. It should at least have hockey in the name because whenever I’m telling Greg I’m going to go play NHL2K10 I always say I’m off to play hockey (he assumes I’m not playing real hockey out in the street, I guess).
There is a second reason why the name should be different.
It’s an awful lot like EA Game’s hockey game’s name NHL10.
So much so that when going through the ordering process, by ordering process I mean that I ask Tracey if she could use her internet magic to find me a really cheap copy of a game and then she orders it, I wait and then it shows up. We somehow ordered NHL2K10 instead of the desired NHL10.
But look, a hockey game is a hockey game even though they don’t use the word in the title (yes I know that H stands for hockey, it’s not really my point). So I had a 
play with the game and realised that I did not pay enough attention to The Mighty Ducks franchise of films and thus knew very little about any hockey terms except a flying duck and there doesn’t appear to be a button for that.
There are buttons for a bunch of other stuff but I’ve got no idea what they’re talking about so apparently I’m going to have to go to wikipedia and learn stuff.
Damnit.
I have gotten myself into a nice pattern of losing by huge numbers and only using the two button, shoot and pass. Actually that’s a lie the circle button can be used when you don’t have the puck to smash into other players including your own as well as the net and the wall.
To date I have won one match. The team I was playing must have been drunk or something, are there drunken hockey teams out there? If so then this would be their simulation and I can only hope to play them again.
In fairness despite my aversion to actually winning, the game is a lot of fun so far and does make me want to scratch the surface a little deeper.
Now off to wikipedia to learn what the hell a deke is and why I want to do it?
