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Mmn hmmn, I am a chick golfer. Make your own assumptions. I started playing Tiger Woods golf games in with the 2002 demo from a free disk that was in Playstation magazine. It was a good Demo and we went right out and bought the game. Those free disks were great. There was always a creative interface, such as the underwater submarine. Which at the time looked amazing.
When I downloaded the new Tiger Woods 10 Demo from the PSN network, the controls felt quite different from the last rendition that I played. So I figured “Why not?” I got out the old tin AOL CD box, (remember those) and fired up the Demo disk. First I had to create a PS2 memory card on the PS3 which was a very simple task. I got into the Tiger Woods Demo and was I ever surprised. The avatar of Tiger Woods was floating up in the air with arms and legs raised like a Cirque du Soleil acrobat. As I attempted to play, the contortions just got funnier. Poor Tiger began to shimmy around the golf club like a pole dancer! Somehow the controls worked on the ball, but the golf club also began to do weird stuff too. Too bad I couldn’t get screen shots of this for you, but I am sure someone with a better digital camera than mine will read this and get the pictures. Believe me it’s hilarious, try it if you still have those disks.
The new Tiger Woods Demo is pretty good. After a few minutes and a more thourough look at the directions the my hands adapted like I had never left the game for six years. These games are always solid, and if you haven’t picked one up in a while this game is so advanced that it will satisfy the pickiest golf enthusiast. There are two holes from Beth Page – too bad Tiger lost. And two more from another course. There is also a Tiger challenge where you have to match Tiger’s shots from existing games he played in the past. Can you hit some of those incredible shots like he did? I’m glad to say that I won the challenge neatly.
A few complaints. Why only an ugly looking ginger guy for an avatar? Oh right it’s EA Sports. If I were them I would have put the character customization on the Demo. That way once you have your character you’d become more involved in the game and have to buy it to keep your character alive. That is how WoW and the other MMO’s do it. Then the female reviewers would be happy and not have to write “Yet again no female avatar.” Secondly, and I don’t know if this will be different in the game, but you spawn at the tee or at your ball. Your character can’t walk around the course. The other issue is that the angle control for the club face is on the right hand stick where we are used to having the camera in all other games. That fine tuning is a good feature, but it’s only for advanced players and it really should not be taking up the prime real estate on the controller. Over all I’d like to see a wider view of the course on the camera. In fact I wonder if this game will be appealing to casual gamers since there are so many numbers, graphs and stats all over the place which could be intimidating. Tiger Woods 10 looks fun and it’s a nice summer game for family time. I’d buy it, and it is certainly worth a rental or at least trying out the free, yet homely Demo character.
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