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1997 edition of EA's NHL sport simulation series. Improvements in this edition come mostly in the graphical arena, with a refined version of the "virtual stadium" system that adds new camera angles (including the classical top-down one strangely missing from NHL 96), and polygonal players instead of the bitmap-based ones with motion-captured animations.
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Cool, clear, unpretentious and abstract.
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IGDB rating 8.9/10 from 9 ratings.
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“Is it the best sport game of its decade?”
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“Has NHL 97 aged badly?”
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