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Title: What's going on?
Review: The NHL series got me hooked on EA Sports about nine years ago. I loved this game so much my friends and I would play for hours. It's what dropped my 3.5 to a 3.0 in college. Once I landed a PS2 my first purchase was NHL 2001. I was, and still am sick with disappointment over this game. Yes, I can see Brett Hull's nose hair, and yes, the gameplay is smooth and every international team from Austria to Zimbabwe is represented, but the little things are gone. The most irritating of these is the lack of a franchise mode. One season and then you're back to the title screen. No taking your favorite perrennial crappy team to the top with trades and front office maneuvering. This, to me, has taken the games legs right out from under it. I can play head to head, but alone it's a yawn factory. Save your money and wait for my hate mail to EA Sports to prompt the needed changes for 2002.
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