NHL 2004

September 22, 2003 EA Black Box EA Sports
Simulator Sport
XBOX NGC PC PS2
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NHL 2004, developed by the EA Black Box studios, is an ice hockey video game. It is the successor to NHL 2003 and is widely considered to be a major turning point in the NHL series. The game adds 3 European Elite Leagues: Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), Sweden's Elitserien (SEL), and Finland's SM-liiga. (This is not the first time that European teams are included in an EA game; EA released both Elitserien 95 and Elitserien 96 for the Mega Drive in Sweden only and Elitserien and SM-liiga 2001 as an expansion pack for PC in Sweden and Finland which included those teams.) The ratings of the teams in the Elitserien and SM-liiga were comparable to the NHL rosters, however future installments had the league teams inferior to the NHL.
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Release Date September 22, 2003
Developer EA Black Box
Publisher EA Sports
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective Bird view / Isometric
Themes Non-fiction