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Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Review by Dan Whitehead
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Away from the career mode the main addition to the menu is Live Tournaments. Taking part in these daily and weekly events is easy - you just play through the tournament as you would in Career Mode, and your performance is added to the relevant leaderboard. Needless to say, it won't be long before the top spots are the sole preserve of the maniacally dedicated, posting scores of 70 under par, but as a concept it's mostly welcome. Play The Pros is a bit more interesting, since it ranks players of the game alongside the actual tournament scores of PGA professionals. As a bridge between game and sport, it's a very clever idea and plays well into EA Sports' increasing obsession with presenting their titles as real life sports broadcasts.
Finally, there's Tournament Challenge, which replaces the Tiger Challenge mode. Rather disappointingly, it's one of those modes where you're placed into a famous moment from sporting history and have to replicate - or improve on - the performance of the pros. Unlike the varied challenges of previous games, it feels obvious and uninspired. There are even notable omissions, with the course designer conspicuous by its absence.
Crucially, however, the game itself remains almost completely unchanged, the creative inertia all the more noticeable given the radical overhaul the series enjoyed over the course of its 2008 and 2009 incarnations. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since the game is about as polished as videogame golf is likely to get on the current hardware, but nor does it justify another full-price release.
And that was the first and last time Tiger searched for "goatse"...
Given the game's focus on using RPG-style stat levelling to improve your golfer, there's just not enough incentive for players of PGA Tour '09 to start from scratch with another rubbish creation, hitting weak drives and fluffing easy putts because the skill of your carefully crafted avatar hasn't reached the appropriate numerical mark. For those who have already gotten good at this stuff, it's a grind getting back up to speed again.
Looking back over the list of new features, there's really very little here that couldn't have been offered as premium downloadable content for the last game, were it not for the commercial necessity of releasing boxed products with bigger numbers at the end of the title. Unlike the faster-moving world of FIFA, where fans will always want to play with the latest squads and kits, maybe it's time to accept that Tiger would be better served by following the Fight Night model, only releasing a new entry in the series when there's a game worth making, not just because the calendar has rolled over. It won't happen, of course, but if the cycle holds true then at least Tiger Woods 2012 should be a belter.
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TheStatics
08/06/09 @ 07:49
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Anyone know what the score is re. continuing LIVE support for Tiger Woods 09 when this new version comes out?
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andywilkie35
08/06/09 @ 08:13
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I buy Tiger every year since '04, but I think this year I'll take a break. I really enjoyed 09 but haven't played it enough to warrant getting another one so soon. I'll wait a year, hopefully my love for it will have rekindled by then
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Well I've decided I'm not bothering with Tiger Woods this year because the games are pretty much the same every year and the graphics still haven't improved at all (they're still underwhelming IMO). I hardly touched TW09.
The games play alright but if you have one game from the last two years then there's no real point in playing any of the new ones because EA are content to keep churning out the same game each year. A good if samey game but an unspectacular one if you ask me unless you're absolutely nuts about golf. |
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Kirly_Wombat
08/06/09 @ 09:36
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I think EA needs some competition, being the only half decent golf game out there is slowing advances imo.
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Annoyingly a lot of the comments seem fair, though the review has missed the best part of the game which is multiplayer(not necessarily online). I wish that they did not push out a new version every year, but I am very keen to see new courses.
They have been massively focused on the Wii version this year, I imagine that the major upgrade in this is that it is a much stabler game, the previous version has many technical errors which commonly crash and stall ps3 and 360, if you look at the EA forums, it is that fans number one gripe. It is the only game that commonly crashes my ps3, for that reason only I will get the new version! (hope it is not my machine) Definately getting the Wii version. I get the feeling that FIFA is a much more popular game, but I am not interested. |
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Meh, from what I've heard from people involved with the project, the best feature which you glossed over is the Play the Pros live tournament feature, and the online options.
I'd have liked to have had a focus on those since they are actually new, rather than a checklist of things which we already know about. |
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HuggyAtHome
08/06/09 @ 10:57
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Used to love the TW games on the PS2. Played the demo of this one - hated it. Just too, well,,............ American. I don't want whoops and cheers with every bleedin shot. Go away. Also agree with earlier comment that the graphics were average at best. I will stick to the cartoon but enjoyable world of everybody's golf.
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marronthered
08/06/09 @ 13:03
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If you want to have lots more fun playing golf with mates or online... buy Everybodys golf world tour!
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Oh dear, another year another dissapointing TW release. Used to be such a fan of these games but it seems EA just cant be arsed with it anymore. I guess its a case of if its still selling reasonably well, which I assume they do or they wouldnt keep releasing them, then why bother to spend more effort and money on development. A shame when you think of what a TW game could be. EA have shown that they are capable of developing top notch games - Dead Space for example. But year after year with the TW franchise they just churn out the same old game. At the very least improve the graphics, how hard is it to make static buildings look half decent? Why is the dlc always just a couple of boring (expensive!) real world courses? What happened to the fantasy courses of the older TW games that were arguably more interesting to play and a few of which would surely make for a half decent dlc pack! I dont expect to see any of this from EA any time soon however unfortunatly...
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i missed 09 so am getting 10... and agree with the reviewer about getting away from the annual updates purely for their own sake.
Looking at the courses, there still seems to be 16 of em. But they take some away and add new ones which is annoying. Maybe its a disc space issue or they want to release the others as DLC. Its a waste to have other courses from previous games not included. The annual levelling-up thing needs addressing too. They make u do this every edition! |
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I'm afraid there is simply NO alternative for the 360 guys. A couple of half baked live games don't count for me. I have the two of them, and they aren't worth it. I'm crying out for links to come back, and wasn't there meant to be a vijay singh golf game announced one year ? I bought tiger 09 after 03 on the xbox was my last one, and couldn't believe how little had changed. i could still shoot 48 ! I played it on tour pro level, which was a bit better, but it still is just not golf to me. Why aren't there leaderboards for each course and over all the difficulty levels ? Instead we just get some weird gamernet shit that i can't even understand. Get proper leaderboards ! Trying to beat a 'proper' course record on the hard tour pro level would certainly give it a bit of a boost in the kudos dept in my book
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IronCladChicken
03/07/09 @ 20:17
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I'm thinking of pickking up the Wii version myself... Seems like a lot of other people are too...
Eurogamer ignoring other consoles and concentrating on the XBox360?! Whaf a surprise! Actually, I'm not that sure Eurogamer own any consoles other than the Xbox360? :P |
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