On the other hand, the commentary sounds a bit homemade and the player selection can be frustrating - set it to Auto and it makes unwise selections when you're defending but set it to Manual and you don't even get automatic control of the player with the puck. And it's got the Olympic licence, which means you can play through a complete tournament at Nagano. The controls are simple and intuitive, and it moves pretty quickly (but on anything less than a 166 you'll see more jerking than on a Boy Scouts' camping trip). The graphics here are pretty good (as long as you have a 3D card, otherwise the players look like a shotgunned cereal packet), and when you score there's a nice lighting effect that's a bit like a cross between Holiday On Ice and a sixth-form disco. And while Actuo Hockey is decent enough, it's by no means as good as EA's festival of fun. Anyone going up against the game-playing meisterwerk they call NHL 98 has to come up with something pretty amazing to get any attention.

it's got the lot.Īlright, so you might have to' give them thighs like prop forwards, but that never did Chun Li out of StreetFightcr any harm. Mind you, if a games company wanted to inject a bit of Lara Croft-style madness into a sports game, hockey's the way to go: large-breasted women, short skirts, untrammelled violence. Most odd.Īll of which has nothing to do with this game, because it's ice hockey, not hockey. (Although admittedly they seem to be wearing the same skirts.) But there's nothing in between. They go away for the summer holiday, and when they come back they're slatternly 30-year-old women with stockings and stilettos, and mouths that look like they could suck the top off a fire extinguisher. Speaking of which, did you ever notice the weird effect that time had on the girls of St Trinians? At 12 they're about three feet tall and three feet wide, with hair that looks like it's been set on fire. Damn, I Thought This Was Going To be field hockey - I was looking forward to a St Trinians simulation, with women running about in gymslips, beating the shit out of their opponents with pieces of wood.

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