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Game Information
- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Confidence Is a Factor
- The all-new Shot Confidence feature uses factors from your previous rounds to determine your confidence heading into each shot.
- PGA TOUR Mode: Build a golfer from the ground up in the most in-depth Career mode ever.
- Go from an inexperienced rookie to a crafty TOUR veteran on your way to becoming the world’s most dominant golfer.
- Experience the all-new FedEx Cup championship format by playing a dream round at Westchester Country Club, TPC Boston, Cog Hill, and East Lake.
- Take on the Most PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour Pros
- Features the greatest PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour pros, including Tiger Woods, John Daly, and Vijay Singh
- Plus Annika Sorenstam, Natalie Gulbis, Christie Kerr, and Morgan Pressel.
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
While Electronic Arts’ other sports games may be locked in a deadly rivalry with their competitors there really hasn’t been a golf sim to go head-to-head with Tiger Woods for years. There doesn’t seem to be too much laurel sitting going on though, especially since this is, like many Electronic Arts games this year, the first time the game has been designed specifically with the next generation of consoles in mind. Naturally that means the most realistic graphics yet, not only for the course itself but also for Tiger and the other real-world golfers. Their faces and expressions look totally life-like and on the PS3 and 360 you can use a webcam or digital camera to import your own face and graft it to your own in-game custom golfer.
In terms of gameplay the major new feature is the concept of "shot confidence" which monitors your performance through your whole career, adding an extra degree of tension to difficult shots but also allowing you to examine your game in detail to find out where you’re going right and wrong. After criticisms that last year’s game was a bit thin on options this new game has the greatest number of courses ever including Westchester Country Club, TPC Boston, Cog Hill and East Lake. There’s also the expanded GamerNet mode which acts like a sort of YouTube just for the game, allowing you post in-game videos and challenge other people to a game in an online world dedicated to nothing but golf.
Harrison Dent
Manufacturer's Description
You’re facing a long putt for par on the 17th hole with Tiger Woods clinging to a one stroke lead. You’ve been in this position before, but that doesn’t matter now. Or does it? Whether you play it safe or go for broke, Play with Confidence in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08. The all-new Shot Confidence feature uses factors from your previous rounds--including club selection, lie, hole, and More--to determine your confidence heading into each shot. Play with the confidence of a pro as you battle the best golfers from the PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour on the most courses ever in your quest for the coveted FedEx Cup Championship.
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70 of 71 people found the following review helpful
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Having skipped Tiger Woods 2007 after discovering that there was virtually no difference between the 2004 and 2006 versions, I was rather predictably disappointed with this version when it came out. There is virtually no difference between this and 2006, which means in essence EA Games have done very little with Tiger Woods since 2004.
On the plus side, some of the graphical glitches are fixed and the courses look a little prettier - although the golfers themselves still look cartoony (and if you add tattoos they still appear too bright compared to the rest of your golfer in poor weather).
On the minus side, the rest of the old problems are still there - stuttering and lengthy install times, illogical interface, mouse pointer visible right over the ball when the computer-controlled golfers are taking their shots, menu controls you can't do anything with until it's your turn, and golfers that walk across each other's lines (and indeed the hole itself) after making their putt.
Inexplicably this year, they managed to make the interface even more obscure by the over-use of hexagons, the shot-swing now suffers from a irritating and potentially aim-destroying stutter (and this is on a top-end PC), and they've added a screen-centre yardage counter that is huge compared with the ball itself and detracts hugely from the game.
On the laziness front, the PGA Tour from Hack up to Pro has barely changed - you still play the same matches against the same people as two years ago (although Dale Deputy now sports an afro for some reason). Most of the clothing items, tattoos, sunglasses, etc are also still the same.
The much-advertised (some might say 'only selling point') Confidence system boils down to essentially making the shots you've made before easier and the shots you failed to make before even harder. It seems to have had negligible impact on my round average and smacks of desperation to add some new feature to the game.
This is a truly disappointing release. EA Games would have done much better to go back to the drawing board and ask themselves where the fundamental flaws with Tiger Woods PGA Tour are rather than constantly trying to do minute feature additions each year and trying to market it as a whole new game. It isn't - it's the same as 4 years ago except in many places actually worse.
On the plus side, some of the graphical glitches are fixed and the courses look a little prettier - although the golfers themselves still look cartoony (and if you add tattoos they still appear too bright compared to the rest of your golfer in poor weather).
On the minus side, the rest of the old problems are still there - stuttering and lengthy install times, illogical interface, mouse pointer visible right over the ball when the computer-controlled golfers are taking their shots, menu controls you can't do anything with until it's your turn, and golfers that walk across each other's lines (and indeed the hole itself) after making their putt.
Inexplicably this year, they managed to make the interface even more obscure by the over-use of hexagons, the shot-swing now suffers from a irritating and potentially aim-destroying stutter (and this is on a top-end PC), and they've added a screen-centre yardage counter that is huge compared with the ball itself and detracts hugely from the game.
On the laziness front, the PGA Tour from Hack up to Pro has barely changed - you still play the same matches against the same people as two years ago (although Dale Deputy now sports an afro for some reason). Most of the clothing items, tattoos, sunglasses, etc are also still the same.
The much-advertised (some might say 'only selling point') Confidence system boils down to essentially making the shots you've made before easier and the shots you failed to make before even harder. It seems to have had negligible impact on my round average and smacks of desperation to add some new feature to the game.
This is a truly disappointing release. EA Games would have done much better to go back to the drawing board and ask themselves where the fundamental flaws with Tiger Woods PGA Tour are rather than constantly trying to do minute feature additions each year and trying to market it as a whole new game. It isn't - it's the same as 4 years ago except in many places actually worse.
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I agree with everything said by other reviewers. EA seem to have deserted the PC users of the Tiger Woods game. No user face and the so-called improvements are laughable. What really annoys me is the length of time between holes - on average you are waiting up to a minute from sinking the put to starting the next hole.
Very disappointing.
Very disappointing.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
The good news. The graphics look better, it works on Vista and there are more courses than before (and none of the stupid 'fantasy' courses). They've also fixed the sidehill issue so playing off sloping lies impacts the ball flight.
However, look beyond this and you find yet another shoddy effort in the TW series.
As is now expected, the computer driven players are hopeless, scarcely able to drive a ball more than 220 yards and often seeming oblivious of obstructions e.g. driving directly into the trees or into spectators who for some bizarre reason choose to stand direct in the players line.
The AI issues vary from frustrating to plain weird. Land in a greenside bunker and you will be presented with a sand wedge set to hit the ball a much longer distance. You have to select another club then the sand wedge again to have it set to the appropriate range. Also, once off the tee, you'll notice the majority of the spectators facing away from the play!
The Tiger Challenges are a nice diversion but have a huge issue. As you progress, you player wins attribute boosts. Get too far and your player is soon at 100% in strength/ability and the game becomes too easy. The issue is - despite indication that it can be done - there is no apparent way to reduce those attributes so you are stuck as a superhuman player.
For the perfect example to show the lack of testing by EA Sports, play a round at Westchester. The course is set to a par of 75 with 7 par 5's! With some of those par 5's at barely 400 yards, somebody made a huge screw up with the scorecard and leave it a farcically easy course to score low.
The final insult is the non-appearance of the course utilities function. This allowed the installation of third party courses designed by fans which, in most cases, were far better than the supplied ones.
EA Sports should be ashamed knowing PC golf fans will buy the game yet leave them disappointed by such lacklustre attention to even the most basic of details.
However, look beyond this and you find yet another shoddy effort in the TW series.
As is now expected, the computer driven players are hopeless, scarcely able to drive a ball more than 220 yards and often seeming oblivious of obstructions e.g. driving directly into the trees or into spectators who for some bizarre reason choose to stand direct in the players line.
The AI issues vary from frustrating to plain weird. Land in a greenside bunker and you will be presented with a sand wedge set to hit the ball a much longer distance. You have to select another club then the sand wedge again to have it set to the appropriate range. Also, once off the tee, you'll notice the majority of the spectators facing away from the play!
The Tiger Challenges are a nice diversion but have a huge issue. As you progress, you player wins attribute boosts. Get too far and your player is soon at 100% in strength/ability and the game becomes too easy. The issue is - despite indication that it can be done - there is no apparent way to reduce those attributes so you are stuck as a superhuman player.
For the perfect example to show the lack of testing by EA Sports, play a round at Westchester. The course is set to a par of 75 with 7 par 5's! With some of those par 5's at barely 400 yards, somebody made a huge screw up with the scorecard and leave it a farcically easy course to score low.
The final insult is the non-appearance of the course utilities function. This allowed the installation of third party courses designed by fans which, in most cases, were far better than the supplied ones.
EA Sports should be ashamed knowing PC golf fans will buy the game yet leave them disappointed by such lacklustre attention to even the most basic of details.
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