A great ice hockey game developed by Canadian sports games experts MindSpan (makers of Hardball series and Joe Montana Football).
Faceoff! was MindSpan's first game, and was instantly touted (although not loudly enough in my opinion) as one of the best ice-hockey games of its time for the IBM-PC. What makes the game an instant classic? Although good graphics doesn't guarantee a good game, great graphics goes a long way toward making an ice hockey game an action-packed, "total immersion" experience. And immersion is what Faceoff! offers in spades.
Even more so than Konami's classic Blade of Steel, Faceoff! offers very fluid controls, excellent player animations, and just a lot of atmosphere-- including very good fighting interface for this essential part of real-life hockey game. There are some coaching options which are adequate, although of course not as extensive as complex hockey sims such as Hockey League Simulator.
Faceoff! delivers a great you-are-there experience that all hockey fans will enjoy. Two thumbs up, way up!
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Here's some commands while playing that you might not know (I'm mainly going off memory here; really wish someone with a manual to this game could reupload it somewhere):
Pressing the same direction twice causes your player to turn around and skate backwards
Pressing fire twice after getting knocked down will cause you to challenge the opponent to a fight
While fighting, you can press and hold fire and the direction towards your opponent to put them in a headlock (only if they don't block high; the CPU often does)
If you win the fight by knocking them down, you can press fire and the direction toward the opponent to jump on them and continue to hit them
I also came up with the worst player team if anybody wanted to mess with that. None of these players can be traded for anybody.
Forwards: (worst to "best")
Roggen (det)
Mell (buf)
Bruce (van)
Mclean (win)
Duff (chi)
Debane (det)
Adams (buf)
Boudria (la)
Smallwood (mon)
Ouellette (buf)
Defense:
Darcy (cal)
Hoskin (ny)
Kelleher (nj)
Alexander (bos)
Koper (stl)
Goalies:
Kempf (cal)
Dresdin (win)
Sorry Jwow, i just saw this after prpbably a few years. A team of the best players in order is:
Forwards:
Chaput (cal, yes a 28 year old minor leaguer is the best player in the game)
Nault (mon)
Broadbent (stl)
Bennett (hfd)
Colls (mon)
Carpenter (min)
Singletary (ny)
Buck (ny)
Hanson (que)
Bosa (la)
Defense:
Sunbury (edm)
Smith (nj)
Standish (hfd)
Merrithew (was)
Taylor (buf)
Suarez (la)
Halliday (que)
Goalies:
Speaker (la)
Rossmere (phi)
@jesse011 i'd love to see them!
If anybody has interest in this game still I have the best players written down from years ago I can list on here
This is great, I still have the user manual with password info in it! Can't believe this can be played again. Fav game ever!
Blades of Steel looks like it may have gotten the rights to this game or made a knock off version for the NES.
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.