I used to love the Tiger Woods golf games on PS2 and this is my 1st game on PS3. For some reason i avoided these games (probably too much Call Of Duty!), but anyway.
I picked this game up second hand just to see whats what, and my goodness, was i disappointed.
Graphically the game is ok, nothing more. I was expecting to see and improvement in the golfing ambience i.e. spectators and grandstands more realistic, but no, its the same thing from the PS2 days.
The courses look quite nice in a way and the game plays fairly smoothly but i was expecting more.
The golf swing and aim is still the same from the old days, but thats a good thing as its easy to pick up and play, so that was a positive.
After this though its all downhill. There seem to be an awful lot of bugs in this game and considering its been out for time, these haven't been rectified, e.g. driving a ball into a tree and seeing it drop in heavy rough. But my next shot is clearly sitting on the fairway ??? I mean c'mon!
Then there's the XP progress. Its slow and extremely laborious.
What i liked about the older games was the fact your earned money to make your way through your career and earned sponsorship deals. This made you feel like a real golfer so the better you played, the better the equipment you got. All this has now gone. So in its place is a slow progress earning Xp or going to the PS Store and buying improvements rather than earning them.
And to me thats just a huge rip off. The game is expensive enough as it is (when new), so this just stinks of EA Sports been greedy and trying to make as much money as possible while sacrificing the enjoyment of the game.
Then we have the online play. This seems to work fine, but again uses the XP system which means you have to play so much golf to make it worthwhile.
All in all, a disaster and a game to be avoided IMO (Even second-hand).