Friday, June 5, 2015

Looking back at NHL 07


A couple of years ago a few friends and I put together a gaming blog much like this one. It didn't last all that long. We all had other things in our lives that were higher priorities, school, work, the typical fare for a group of kids in their late teens.

We didn't get much up on the site before it quickly hit the backburner, but I did write the first post to go up. It was a retro review of NHL 07 on the Xbox 360, a look back at the game nearly seven years after its release. 

The point of the review was to see if the game still held up, even after all the steps the NHL franchise had taken forward in the time since. I said it did, and even though more than two years have passed since I wrote that review, I still believe it does. 

But hey, I'm feeling pretty nostalgic, and NHL 16 is on the way. So why not revisit NHL 07? Think of this post as a new version of the review I posted two years ago, just better adjusted for the changes the series has made since then, and with a bit more personal perspective, because this game holds a special place in my heart.

If you want to see the original review click here. Let's get started.