Self explanatory really, it's an Ice Hockey game, loosely based on the EA Hockey series that started on the Sega Megadrive in the early 90's.

Play through a series of increasingly tougher games in the world cup modes to get your mits on one of several different trophies.

Game options in Hockey Rage include Single Player, World Cups, and a Bluetooth 2 player versus mode, period lengths can be changed from 1-20 minutes and you can also turn certain penalties on or off, though it kind of takes it away from playing if there's no rules!

You have a choice of 16 national teams to choose from, which is obvious that no licenses were splashed out on with a lack of any league which is a big disappointment.

There's some half decent 3D graphics to be seen here, the Nvidia chip inside the Gizmondo is actually being used and can be seen in the polygon players, crowd and smooth reflective Ice the game is played on, and surprisingly looks quite nice on the small screen.

It all adds to the atmosphere when players and lights are being reflected real time on the Ice, sure its nothing amazing but looks nice and would have 'wrong' if it wasn't there.

It's not during play when you can admire the graphics but when the replay's are shown they come into their own and are worth a look even if the goal you scored is a naff scramble!

The in-game presentation is nothing spectacular, but does the job in an 'oh well' kind of way with simple menus that you certainly won't get lost in. Almost forgot to add before each quarter there's a little feature that lets you drive the Icing machine, some may say its a relaxing intervene, I'd just say it's an annoying intervene after the first couple of goes, but it's a free added extra so I shouldn't really complain.

The music is from a group called 'Riot Life' ...yes we haven't heard of them either, but anyway its all very heavy metal music i.e crap, not to put a finer point on it!

Luckily the in-game sound effects are better and you won't be listening to the menu music very much anyway.

There's quite a bit of digitized speech in the game, mainly your opponents trying to wind you up and when you rough them up a bit, the only naff part is the voices are the same no matter what country you are or play against! A bit of voice acting would have gone down a treat here!

Other effects, such as slicing of the Ice, puck whacks, dinks and whistles are all present. It all sounds very much like a proper console game, which has done its job pretty well then.

This will almost certainly be compared to EA Hockey, which can only be a good thing, the control method is almost identical which is also a good thing as its a very playable game.

The basic control method is using the d-pad to control the movement and 2 buttons, one for passing, another for shooting, some may moan that the lack of any trickery and complicated shooting may put them off, but others looking for a simple easy to pick up will find this to their liking.

As also mentioned, the world cup modes will only keep you entertained for so long, the lack of a game league and other teams is poor, though the 2-player Bluetooth mode can only add to the fun.

• Playable
• Decent graphics & sound effects.

A sleeper hit to coin a phrase, in my opinion, not a lot has been heard of people getting into this game, I hope this review will inspire some people to go out and get a copy.

It loses a good point or more however, for having such a lack of any leagues and more teams, which is almost certainly going to take away from it's life span, with these features and more then it may have well got a gold, maybe in a  sequel?

• Not enough teams
• No leagues will shorten game life.