![]() ![]() You can choose from three initial swing types – Arcade, Classic (Three-click) and Advanced – but now you can customise your own difficulty of swing. In play the courses are beautiful to look at, grass bends in the wind, clothes crease with movement, divots fly up on harsh swings, water shimmers and glistens as light reflects on its surface, golfers have the most immaculately sculpted buttocks seriously, in play it is lovely. Stroke play, multiplayer (online now complemented by the fact other golfers are rendered alongside you playing, rather than taking it in turns), challenge modes and, of course, the career championship are all present and correct but packaged within a menu system that’s just dreadful to navigate.įor a series that has twenty-five years of pedigree behind it, it’s not surprising that Rory McIlroy’s PGA Tour gives you a rather brilliant game of golf. It’s a FIFA style menu system that really just obfuscates how to access all the game’s modes. Frame rates seemingly drop with menu selections, while icon fade-outs and new segment fade-ins judder during their transitions. Immediate impressions aren’t favourable: menus are clunky and laggy, with inputs either not registering or taking a while to execute. Looks are excellent in some places, but competent in others, which is odd for a style of game that isn’t traditionally aesthetically taxing. It took a hiatus in 2014 due to severing ties with Tiger Woods and has been rebuilt from the ground up in DICE’s Frostbite engine – famous for its use in Battlefield and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare – and it shows. ![]() I skipped downloadable title The Golf Club and, with the newest entry in Clap Hands’ series still a while away, I was looking forward to EA’s rebranded game hitting our shiny new consoles.Īnd so, here we have the latest entry in EA’s PGA Tour series. Alongside this, I find going a few rounds on golf games to be a great way to spend my time, sinking hours upon hours into Sony’s Everybody’s Golf series and several of EA’s PGA Tour titles. Yet, put me on a pitch and putt or crazy golf course and I could happily play all day. Try as I might, I just cannot watch it when it’s televised. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with golf.
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