The Tiger Woods franchise has been rolling along on auto-pilot for several seasons now, but the '08 offering is prepared to up the ante for new-gen golfers. EA's Tiburon studio, fortress stronghold for Madden Football, NCAA Football, and NASCAR among others, has taken on the challenge of revitalizing Tiger's namesake and they're hitting all the greens.
As expected there are cosmetic upgrades all around. Photo Game Face enables you to map photos from a digital camera or an Xbox Vision camera to your created golfer's noggin. There are seventeen courses including five new ones, eight new golfers, and a load of fresh animations.
Online this year, Tiger's introducing GamerNet for a major focus on community-building. This is basically a collection of video channels where you can upload your best shots, best rounds, or goofy golf hijinks using the game's excellent replay feature. GamerNet will also display its own challenges, which you can try to beat, such as longest drives or best course scores.
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David Kenson writes "Tiger Woods 12 manages to squeeze out a few more improvements on Tiger Woods 11's already full rostrum of options. Like last year, MotionPlus allows the game to capture a one-to-one backwards and forwards stroke, but now it adds the Balance board into the swing equation for the first time."
He provides a comparison of the different version of Tiger on the Wii, which highlights the up-and-down nature of the EA franchise.
That's a very thorough look at the last five titles in the series as compared to the latest. I have to say that I'm occasionally addicted to golf games, although I prefer them on the arcade-y side (I loved Sensi Golf on the Amiga!). If I take the plunge again this will be really helpful!
Sensible Golf on the Amiga sold very badly and was considered a commercial failure, I believe; but, I thought it was an excellent title.
Not 100% sure about using the balance board. I suppose it isn't as vigorous as Raving Rabbids but the board isn't as stable as a golf course. Interesting use of the board though.
Good grief... well I guess if I played golf this could be an amazing teaching tool. As I don't Ill have to play it with features all turned off if I want any hope of success. Still good for EA to at least be trying to make use of the Wii peripherals and iterating on a franchise on a console where most developers just pump out lazy ports.
Teh at Gogaminggiant.com takes a look at the Tiger Woods franchise and its decline of quality over the years. Through the use of facts and cultural puns, Teh brings us an opinion piece that you don't want to miss out on anytime soon.
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The last and best golfing game I played was Links 2004 for the Xbox. It was an absolute blast with 3 other friends or through the old XSN leagues. I miss that game.
I wonder why MS has never brought Links golf to the Xbox 360? This is truly a injustice! I have always been a fan of Links golf since the days of the Amiga.
John Daly powerstroke golf was to come out this past holiday season, but after getting lousy reviews,it has been pushed back to late spring 2011. The BIG question is will the release delay make it any better?
Like the author of this story,I was a big fan of TWG for many years with my favorite edition being in 2004 with the "Tiger Vision" feature. The "Tiger vision" feature made it easy for non-console golfers to enjoy the challange of putting.
After TWG 2009,I decided that that was it for me and the TWG games. They have become so hard to play( driving,putting ) that playing it to the point of enjoyment was just not there and spent my gaming $$$ elsewhere.
This year though, I may break down and buy "the Masters" as I miss a good console golf game!
I've always hated golf games, I just dont see the lure of golfing games since they're both so boring.
Also, yes it would be fun to have the south park tiger woods fighting game. Pre-nup power-up!
This is quite off topic but....
whats absolutely crazy, I feel bad for Tiger, sure, he is a cheating a-hole, but he had to give his wife like 500 million dollars, this is an embarrasment, think about it, his stupid wife get's 500 million for not putting out, what a stain on society.
While some guy's wife who gets the shit beat out of her by his druken worthless ass, gets half a carton of newports and some state paid reconstructive surgery.
There should be a cap for what a woman is entitled to, she does nothing and gets everything.
The limit a woman should be allowed to get in a divorce should be like $50,000
alright lady, go off on you own, heres 50 g's, shiiiiit, Tigers wife would be blowing him right now then giving him a pedicure if she knew leaving only ment 50 g's.
not 500, I'm a big golf nut so I follow this stuff, but yeah everything you said is dead on. She was a nanny before she met Tiger. that does not pay that well.
Tiger Woods is an overrated f*g and this golf crap games sucks. If anything I would play Hotshots golf 5.
I loved Tiger Woods 04' but since then the games have gotten worse every year. The controls are'nt as good (why did they switch the swing sticks around?) and the career mode is lacking.
If there are any Tiger Woods players here that want to try their hand against me send me a friend request on LIVE. My Gamertag is the same: Syko 360. I have been ranked in the top 25 the last 2 years and was as high as 3rd overall last year in 07'. I believe I am still in the top 25 despite not playing for 6 months or so, due to the online being so broken last year.
Needless to say I am stoked about this year and so far haven't heard any major complaints from the community. Look foward to reclaiming my top ten status this year again. see ya on the links.
This game is making me buy the vision cam. Ill rent the game just to put my mug in it.
TW on the PS3 plays at 30 fps ... EA devs complain about getting one character to animate at 60 frames