“I don’t want to take the spotlight from the guys who have made all this possible,” Tuomainen says. “We’re grown-ass men, every one of us, and we still dedicate our time to this.” “It’s hard to explain something like this,” Hannu Tuomainen says. The obsessive attention to detail is the point. The soundtrack, the graphics, the announcers - all, basically, unchanged from 18 years ago. The end result is a game that grafts flourishes of customization and modernization to fundamental elements that modders wouldn’t change if they could. If you want to alter the physics of the game, or incorporate rule changes that came after the 2003-04 season, you can.įor the people who love it, it works.
It’s “NHL 2004” with everything from 2021 - the players, arenas, jerseys, goal horns, pregame ceremonies - included in an enormous, downloadable series of “patches.” If you want to play as Cale Makar, or the Seattle Kraken, or at Climate Pledge Arena, or in the Penguins’ new alternate jerseys, you can. The Original Six, all nine of them, are part of a community that’s larger still: the tinkerers, enthusiasts and obsessives behind what’s known as “NHL 04 Rebuilt,” a nearly full-scale reimagining of what many believe to be the greatest hockey game of all time, pulled from the past and kept fresh, vital and current through sheer force of will. They’re at the cabin to play a computer game that EA Sports sent to the dustbin nearly two decades ago - a game older than Shane Wright, the consensus No. Those are appetizers and incidentals, though.
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