![]() It doesn’t seem to take your player’s attributes and clubs or the environmental conditions into effect whatsoever. In Arcade mode, the cursor for guessing where your shot will land is flat-out broken. It is the Dark Souls of sports-gaming modes. And the Tour mode, the actual hard mode, is an unspeakable horror. I spent most of my time playing arcade-style, which is supposed to be “for everyone.” I thought this would be an easy, fun playstyle to smash some balls and sink some putts. You may have a million ways to customize your shot before you take it, but you are totally screwed once you swing that club. ![]() Image Credit: EA Sports What you won’t like It’s a shame that we’re forced to play such impossibly hard and boring golf on these beautiful courses. I enjoyed the scenery in Rory McIlroy PGA Tour. Couple this with the Quick Rounds feature, which mercifully enables you to play four of 18 holes and then simulate the rest, and you can zip through tournaments in an hour. The switch to Battlefield’s Frostbite 3 game engine allows for slashed loading times across the board. These various courses also don’t require loading between holes. You can also choose to play a strange practice course in the Night Club Challenge, PGA’s after-dark take on a typical skills challenge mode. The title even features one course based on Parcel Storm, a Battlefield 4 map. EA’s licensing deal with Augusta and The Masters tournament expired, so it didn’t make the cut. Three of pro golf’s four most recent major tournament locations are represented. ![]() A dozen actual courses and five fictitious ones offer a great variety of settings. It’s clear that EA Tiburon put its focus on course development, and that shines through in the final product. However, some of you may know enough about golf swings and clubs to make excellent use of these options.įor me, every shot that doesn’t hit the audience or land in the water is a perfect shot.Ī good variety of courses with minimal loading times I am pretty sure subtracting loft from my driver made the ball go faster, but I can’t be certain. I didn’t grasp most of this customization. I think they are some sort of wood/iron mix, and frankly, it’s just not natural. If you are feeling especially adventurous, you can even try hybrid clubs. Choose from various wedges, irons, woods, putters, and drivers. Players also have a ton of decisions to make about which clubs actually go into their bags. You can bend shots with the wind to wrap balls around major obstacles, or you can ease up on the shot stick to hit the ball shorter than your club’s maximum distance. You’ve got punch shots to get you under the trees and flop shots to stop your ball from rolling. One of Rory McIlroy PGA Tour’s few bright spots is its dizzying array of shot types, clubs, and spins. Tons of ways to get your ball on the green If you don’t know the difference between a punch and a flop shot, then run - run far away. If you are a hardcore golf fan, this has a few things for you. Even its highly touted real-life golf course selection is missing the Augusta National Golf Club - site of The Masters Golf Tournament and one of the most famous courses on Earth. It lacks the customization options and expansive roster of playable characters we expect from a triple-A sports franchise - especially a battle-tested EA one. The team at HB Studios, which EA contracted to work on its annual golf franchise, went on to release its own independent golf game, The Golf Club, that year.ĮA Tiburon took its time with the development of Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, but I honestly have no idea what it spent all of that time doing. After EA cut ties with Woods, the development of a 2014 PGA Tour game never got sorted out. The franchise sustained a major blow when its poster boy, the seemingly squeaky clean Tiger Woods, made a series of questionable decisions regarding evening entertainment.
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