Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: The Best Takes a Step Backward

If you are completely new to NHL Hitz, you may enjoy this one; however, those who have owned and loved older versions may not. The fight engine has been reworked, and it has become quite clunky. The fights completely lack action now. The franchise mode no longer lets you play against real teams. Finally, you can no longer lock yourself to an individual player. You can not even lock the goalie to compuer control. This constant switching of players can be very disorienting. I was terribly disappointed to find that all of my favorite features were massively reworked for the worse or gone altogether. I am glad, though, that they used a different naming scheme. Perhaps this indicates that they meant for this to be a different game than the others. The graphics are good, and I am hoping that Midway returns to their tradition with an "NHL Hitz 2004".