With a controller, you still pull the left stick back and then flick it forward, but your swing is presented in a much more readable way.
The swing system has been overhauled, and now offers far more detailed and helpful feedback to your stroke.
The most significant changes, however, are mechanical. Andrews while being buffeted by blustery winds. Fortunately, most of the best courses are already available: golf fanatics will still feel a certain frisson from striding out at Augusta or tackling the back nine of the old course at St. Though these extra courses aren't on the disc, it again raises awkward questions about the nature of service-based gaming and ownership. Playing a single round costs 6000 in-game coins (or 160 Microsoft Points) and the average round won't yield nearly enough for another attempt. The idea is to complete the Course Mastery objectives in order to gain unlimited access, but the gold level targets are difficult and plentiful. More insidiously, some courses are locked until you earn (or buy) enough coins to purchase the ability to play rounds on them. There are plenty of daily and weekly live tournaments to compete in, too.īoost pins offer attribute buffs for a single round. Online country clubs are essentially Tiger's version of the localised league modes of other EA Sports games: invite-only competitions that make you feel more than just a number on a leaderboard. Tiger's backstory is fascinating and worthy of exploration here, it's reduced to a poorly presented Challenge mode.Īnd what of those other back-of-box features? It says much about Tiger that EA Sports sees fit to include a menu option pointing out what's new in case you're having a hard time spotting the differences, but for once, the changes are obvious. With a bigger budget, we could perhaps have had a moving examination of Tiger's relationship with his golf-mad pop, but instead we're treated to brief snatches of narration in Tiger's soporific tones followed by flat, lifeless scenes of a chubby youngster whacking balls into a post-apocalyptic paddling pool. Even back then, it seems Tiger was destined to front an EA Sports game, as proven by the sponsor's flag in his back yard - but these sepia-toned sequences are set in a world as desolate as the opening of 28 Days Later. It fancies itself as a story mode, taking you through pivotal moments in Tiger's career, all the way back to when he first picked up a club as a toddler. Nowhere is this corner-cutting more noticeable than in Legacy mode, a feature deemed worthy of mention on the back of the box. Kinect alleviates the issue as there's no bar to gauge the power of your stroke. On lengthy putts, sometimes the swing meter can disappear off the bottom of the screen. Some effort has been put into improving the tournament atmosphere, but the handful of spectators in view on some courses doesn't match the noise produced.
TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 13 FULL
Few people buy golf games for the graphics, but in places this is an ugly game: character models are fuzzy around the edges while the troublingly barren courses are full of flat textures. It is, quite evidently, a game that has been made on a lower budget than other EA Sports titles. But does this year's game have the feel of a creaky but experienced older stager, or the raw energy of a fresh young whippersnapper? Yet now he's back, albeit with ruddy-cheeked pretender Rory McIlroy lurking (if such a cuddly man can lurk) in the background. 12 months ago, Tiger Woods suffered the ignominy of having his face removed from the box of EA's golfing game owing to his off-tee indiscretions. Last year's philandering cad is this year's comeback king.
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