NHL 2004

Overview

NHL 2004, developed by the EA Black Box studios, is an ice hockey video game. It is the successor to NHL 2003 and is widely considered to be a major turning point in the NHL series. The game adds 3 European Elite Leagues: Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), Sweden's Elitserien (SEL), and Finland's SM-liiga. (This is not the first time that European teams are included in an EA game; EA released both Elitserien 95 and Elitserien 96 for the Mega Drive in Sweden only and Elitserien and SM-liiga 2001 as an expansion pack for PC in Sweden and Finland which included those teams.) The ratings of the teams in the Elitserien and SM-liiga were comparable to the NHL rosters, however future installments had the league teams inferior to the NHL.

Developed by

EA Black Box

Published by

EA Sports

Facts

Game modes

Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Player perspectives

Bird view / Isometric

Themes

Non-fiction

Franchise

NHL

Series

EA Sports NHL

Release dates

• Nintendo GameCube: Sep 22, 2003
• PC (Microsoft Windows): Sep 22, 2003
• PlayStation 2: Sep 22, 2003
• Xbox: Sep 22, 2003