Super Blood Hockey

Super Blood Hockey takes the familiar structure of ice hockey and transforms it into a fast, bloody, and deliberately absurd arcade experience. Developed and published by Loren Lemcke, the game has little interest in accurately reproducing professional hockey. Instead, it concentrates on responsive skating, aggressive checking, quick passing, powerful shots, and enough pixelated violence to turn an ordinary match into complete chaos. Its retro presentation immediately establishes the tone, combining old-school sports design with exaggerated dark comedy. The hockey itself is straightforward enough for newcomers to understand within a few matches. Players move around the rink, pass between teammates, attempt shots, defend their goal, and smash opponents whenever an opportunity appears. The limited number of mechanics works in the game's favor because matches rarely become bogged down by complicated commands. Positioning still matters considerably, however. Charging directly toward the puck without considering defensive coverage can quickly create an opening for the opposing team. Passing intelligently and creating shooting opportunities become increasingly important against stronger…

It's like playing the NES Ice hockey game, but with a twist! Love it!

Super Blood Hockey is an old school hockey game that encourages fighting and has a surprisingly reactive campaign mode. Solid choice for just over $2 on sale!

this goes unexplainably hard, I feel like chugging 10 beers and beating my nonexistent wife

If you were a fan of the old school NES-era hockey games, you will get some enjoyment out of this. It primarily uses that formula with upgraded graphics and the addition of a career mode to train your players stats up between games. I found the career mode to be fun for about a season or so before getting tired of it and moving on. I have a lot of nitpicks with the UI as you must manage individual players by finding them in your quarters and the spreadsheets containing information on your entire team are also posted in physical locations in the team quarters. You will inevitably backtrack between the different rooms searching for players and info sheets. Why can't I just set everyone's diet in the kitchen, everyone's routine in the gym? Or even better, just do it all on the computer. There is no way to "shortlist" players and acquiring new talent means cycling through dozens of nearly identical random skaters to find the best deal and god forbid you accidentally back out of the catalogue (very easy mistake to make) and have to start over at the beginning My last critique is that the violence and atmosphere sometimes cross over the line into cruelty. I enjoy playing violent ga…

sick game