The 'Create a golfer' system is refreshingly comprehensive. Once you've mastered the controls, it's time to dive into the game proper. Like all good control methods, it takes moments to learn but several hours to successfully reach the standard of the Tiger himself. Speed of movement is registered with impressive accuracy and curling your stylus motion as you complete the swing adds directional spin to the ball.
Simply tapping the end of the club with the stylus and pulling back to the required power level primes the swing skimming the stylus forward activates the shot. Simple to use, it grants an astonishingly complete degree of control over your irons and woods. Its replacement is a joy to behold, though. It was clear the developer of the maiden DS installment was finding its feet when it came to making convincing use of the touchscreen. The method used in the 2005 edition was clunky and unsatisfying. The first thing to go was the control system. Ignoring the traditional EA plan of building a game engine and then tweaking it year after year, developer Exient has instead thrown out the old template and started afresh, constructing every element of the game from the ground up. So after the first DS title, the noticeably rough-around-the-edges Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005, was released, EA sensibly decided to make sure its follow-up would be more in keeping with the professionalism associated with the Woods' ethos.įor that reason, it skipped the potential 06 and 07 editions a decision that's paid dividends when it comes to Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, seeing as it's a vast improvement in almost every respect. Thankfully though, hooking up with the Tiger Woods brand has forced EA to take the rest of the game more seriously.
If nothing else, Tiger's provided the company with the perfect excuse to include the same irritating hip R&B styles within its golf games that incongruously infect its other sports titles. EA was in quick with the sponsorship dollars, too. Small wonder that he's since become the world's most marketable athlete, with deals from the likes of American Express, TAG Heuer and Nike. Woods gave them the kick in the pants their baggy chequered trousers deserved. Before the youthfully exuberant American came along the sport had become hopelessly uncool, populated either by capable yet criminally unfashionable types or poorly dressed also-rans. The impact of Tiger Woods on the world of golf is hard to overestimate.
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