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The Tiger Woods game I've been waiting for
posted by Droppo (HOUSTON, TX) Aug 30, 2008
Member since Dec 2006
27 out of 27 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
I have been playing the 2005 PC version of Tiger Woods since it came out and with each year, hope comes to my house that the 360 version will pull me away from that great 05 version. This is finally the year that it has happened.
Everything about this year's version except for one thing is exactly what I've been looking for. The depth of player creation is great. The actual gameplay is easy enough to work on a gamepad. The graphics are the best yet in the series. The music is good, but nothing too in-your-face (which removes the one complaint I had about the 05 version). Load times are slightly long, but not quite enough to get frustrated. There are a lot of graphics being loaded, so I don't mind that it's a 10-15 second wait for the next area to load.
I like how your player's skills increase and decrease based on how well you play. In past years, you might earn enough coin to spend on increasing your stats. This feels more natural and makes you think about each shot as a way of affecting your player's performance in the long run. Every shot counts.
The one thing that I don't like about this game is the commentary. It ranges from good and just exactly like in past years to horrible. They do mix up who is talking enough that the horrible ones aren't consistently who you are listening to, but when they do speak, you have to cringe. Tiger's trainer guy delivers lines very flatly and it's not very good either, but it's better than these commentators that sound like they were either sick or in a bad mood when they were asked to record their work. I can't believe that these lines were heard by someone out there and approved to be in the game.
I guess they had to find at least one thing to mess up so the game wouldn't be the perfect Tiger Woods game. If it were, no one would bother looking at next year's version.
Everything about this year's version except for one thing is exactly what I've been looking for. The depth of player creation is great. The actual gameplay is easy enough to work on a gamepad. The graphics are the best yet in the series. The music is good, but nothing too in-your-face (which removes the one complaint I had about the 05 version). Load times are slightly long, but not quite enough to get frustrated. There are a lot of graphics being loaded, so I don't mind that it's a 10-15 second wait for the next area to load.
I like how your player's skills increase and decrease based on how well you play. In past years, you might earn enough coin to spend on increasing your stats. This feels more natural and makes you think about each shot as a way of affecting your player's performance in the long run. Every shot counts.
The one thing that I don't like about this game is the commentary. It ranges from good and just exactly like in past years to horrible. They do mix up who is talking enough that the horrible ones aren't consistently who you are listening to, but when they do speak, you have to cringe. Tiger's trainer guy delivers lines very flatly and it's not very good either, but it's better than these commentators that sound like they were either sick or in a bad mood when they were asked to record their work. I can't believe that these lines were heard by someone out there and approved to be in the game.
I guess they had to find at least one thing to mess up so the game wouldn't be the perfect Tiger Woods game. If it were, no one would bother looking at next year's version.