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I just played through a full season of NHL 2K on Dreamcast as i never could get through that game before it does some things amazing and not at all like later 2K games really.

My fav for a long time has always been NHL 2K2 its really where the gameplay of 2K3-2K7 begins. I am blown away with the real stadiums on dreamcast and how its basically 2K3 minus the franchise mode and actually came out only six months before 2K3 and if you have a dreamcast its nice to be able to play something of the quality of later 2k games on it.

We are talkin real physics, deflections, even 60 frames per second. I run it on a VGA box for 480p and it blows me away whenever i play how its just like later 2K games.

Not sure what happened after 2K3 but i always felt like when Treyarch no longer made it some pieces of the realism left the games for 2K4 and later its just not quite the same but some things are done better as well, the skating is what stands out for me. Played every single year the day it came out from 2K2 to 2K11 each title, 2K11 the least.

2k9-2k11 id say did a lot great but really need slider adjustments and some animations as mentioned are a joke.

My fav though as im always a Sega fan and they really made the entire 2ksports lineup, a shame its still not under sega sports major mistake on their part to leave just because of NFL licence is 2K2 because it shows the Dreamcast couldve had 2K3 and later games that were on xbox original had they kept making dreamcast games.

If you havent played 2K2 for dreamcast its quite a gem. Its hard for me to put it down.