Background Info
"CrossCheck is a bold and innovative step in the hockey simulation genre," says G.R.Moore, President of GrimWare. "We're giving the often overlooked hard-core hockey fan something to cheer about with our attention to detail and accuracy. CrossCheck is as close to real hockey as is currently possible with today's technologies."

CrossCheck sets a new standard for hockey simulation games. Immersive gameplay and an unprecedented degree of expandability makes CrossCheck the most enjoyable and challenging game of its type to date. Designed as a role-playing style hockey simulation, gamers create their player, determine his capabilities, perform with him, improve his skills through practice, watch as those skills diminish with age and injury, and wish him well when he retires. Add to that extensive coaching options and an accurate business model and you have a hockey sim that's sure to be a hit.

Hierarchical key-framed and interpolated animations produce fluid, flicker-free character and object motion, while CD quality music, 3D positional sound effects and player responses pull you into a highly immersive multimedia experience. The LithTech 3D engine, combined with Intelligent Agent Module™ extensions custom-written by GrimmWare, and a wide array of shooting, checking and passing techniques make CrossCheck a game that hockey simulation fans everywhere will want to own.

Key Features

• Emphasis on coordinated teamplay.
• Accurate puck and board physics.
• Several modes of gameplay: General Manager Mode where you control the business wheeling and dealings of your hockey franchise, Coaching Mode where you design set offensive and defensive plays and run your players through practice drills, and Player Mode where you take on the persona of your player.
• Singleplayer and multiplayer action, both with multi-season career play.
• A wide array of draft and trade options, with both human and computer participation.
• An accurate business model which includes contract negotiations, salary caps and team merchandising.
• 3D players, coaches, rinks, referees and linesmen.
• Fully customizable team art, including rink art, uniforms, logos and player faces.
• Six well defined player attribute categories with nearly 75 distinct attributes per player.
• Full player statistics kept on a game-by-game, season, playoff and career basis.
• Full range of in-game injuries.
• Full NHL rule set.
• Fighting!
• Real time game clock.
• 28 fully rendered, physically accurate rinks with on-ice logos and localized board advertising.
• Power and angle control for both shooting and passing.
• CrossCheck Hall of Fame and record book.
• List of Player Attributes