Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 [Nintendo Wii]
June 13th, 2009 | 69 views | Posted by in Cheap Video Games
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
Feel the drama of playing professional tournament golf like never before with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. For the first time in the history of Electronic Arts’ much lauded golf simulation franchise, players can take aim at capturing the US Open Championship on the ever-challenging Bethpage Black.
Playing in front of huge galleries and hearing crowd reactions from nearby holes, take your game to the next level when it matters most as you try to hold off a charging Tiger Woods and other PGA Tour Pros. Whether you’re fighting the course, the crowd, dynamic weather conditions, or the field, feel the drama on every swing with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10.
Key Features:
- Wii MotionPlus Control Accessory Included – Elevate your game with an enhanced, true-to-life golf swing that features precise draw-fade capabilities and authentic sports motion which mirrors your every move.
- Win the US Open Championship – For the first time ever, feel the drama of playing in the US Open, one of golf’s biggest—and toughest—tournaments of the year. Known for its extremely challenging playing conditions, Bethpage Black tests even the best golfers.
- Precision Putting – Check out precision putting that will change the way you play the game. Using a single long range putter, the combination of backswing length and the tempo of your downswing determines the distance your ball will travel.
- Dynamic Weather Conditions – Powered by the Wii Forecast Channel and the Weather Channel, real-time weather now has a major effect on gameplay conditions. If it’s raining in Pontre Vedra Beach, Fl, then you too can face the challenge of a rain-soaked TPC Sawgrass.
- Enhanced Draw-Fade – Experience heightened accuracy and control with the Wii MotionPlus as it reads how you’re rotated in 3D space when you swing the ball. A slight rotation will result in a slight draw or fade as will a more extreme rotation end up in a greater draw or fade.
- All-New Disc Golf – Trade your clubs for discs in a fun, new game mode based on the family-fun sport of Disc Golf. Play from custom tee locations on all 27 courses in the game.
- Multiplayer Support – Online and local support of 2-4 players.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Review
Mostly, I purchased this game to get a crack at the new Wii Motion Plus controller accessory, so this review is as much a review of the game as the hardware. If you buy the version with the wii motion plus pack-in, you also get a new silicone sheath for the wii remote, which is a nice touch.
GAMEPLAY: So basically, the game is golf, something that I do quite poorly at in real life. Golf games and I do about as poorly. Every few years I go out and buy a golf game, and I basically pay attention to fun and accessibility. On both counts, the game is very, very good.
CONTROL: With the Wii Motion Plus, this game plays better than any other golf game that I’ve ever played. Give yourself thirty minutes with the new motion controls and you may never be able to go back to Wii Sports Golf. The controls feel realistic and responsive, but kind enough to make the game accessible to a golf neophyte. Without the Wii motion plus, all I could think of doing was putting the motion plus accessory back on as quickly as possible.
GRAPHICS: Serviceable. I’ve seen a lot better looking games on the Wii. Water is barely animated and looks pretty pixelated, trees are low res, and character models are only a bit better looking. Character animation is very smooth though and the game seems to match your motions in real life fairly nicely. Oh, but not the crowd… they look really really bad and are animated extremely poorly.
AUDIO: It’s golf with announcers. Sometimes the announcers say some pretty funny stuff, but mostly it’s what you would expect from any golf event, either in a game or in real life.
FEATURES: Absolutely stuffed.
- This game has lots of game modes, one of them being disc golf. I can already tell that disc golf is going to be one of my favorite party games. Disc golf does away with the announcers and replaces them with some tacky elevator music, but party games usually end up with the stereo blasting mixes from someone’s iPod or Zune at unhealthy levels, right?
- Character Customization: Deep and highly customizable. Want to make an aging, pot-bellied, Asian, redneck, punk-rocker with missing teeth, a mohawk, cowboy boots, fu-manchu, mutton chops, and a kilt? You can do it. My friend and I spent at least 45 minutes tricking out our characters trying to make the most outlandish combinations we could think of and we had fun doing it. You can go into the shop and buy additional stuff with your winnings to get even more cool items to trick your character out with.
- As you play, your character gains experience in different abilities and areas. You can spend this experience to boost your stats. This definitely increases the replay value for completionists.
- Online play that doesn’t require friend codes!
- Dynamic weather that integrates with the Wii Weather channel. Seems kind of cool. The feature definitely isn’t based off of your local weather and seems to be based off the weather at that particular golf course in real life. I’m pretty sure of this because it was raining heavily all evening in my town and none of my games had any rain.
VALUE: With over 20 courses, disc golf, and a decently deep experience system will keep dedicated players playing for a very long time. Multi-player gameplay is a blast and great for groups of friends.
Overall, I recommend this game to anyone that enjoys golf games and also to gamers that only casually enjoy golf games. I’m not exaggerating when I say this is the best golf game that I’ve ever played to date. This game has features that I’ll probably never ever see or even touch, but other people may love them. The nearly instantaneous ability to pick up and play the game is very nice, but there are enough nuances to the game that hardcore players will definitely have a game to hone their skills on. This is probably one of the only sports games I will ever review as a “must have” title for anyone who enjoys the genre.
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