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July 29, 2015Galette released by Saints
July 29, 2015
With Tiger Woods’ career a complete mess, EA Sports decided to halt its golf gaming series for a year to lick its wounds.
It announced about six months ago that the series would resume and the Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour would be born – a game built around the skills of the young, dominant European golfer.
So in the spirit of summertime – the peak of the PGA Tour season -1 picked up a demo copy of this inaugural title and decided to give it a twirl.
About three hours and 150 or so holes of golf later, my mind was made up. This game is a bogey – one of the worst sports titles that I’ve picked up this year.
When dealing with golf games, the formula is pretty simple. Provide simple, easy-to-learn game play, give gamers an abundance of courses and have plenty of well-known golfers to pick from.
This title does none of the three.
The game-play controls aren’t overly difficult, but there are too many options to pick from. The real problem is that there is such little grey area and such little wiggle room. The “basic” controls are too easy to use and make the game bland. The “hard” controls turn simple golfing to brain surgery. No one wins.
But the real bummer is the lack of courses and competitors.
When the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series was at its peak, gamers could literally play the game for weeks without going through all of the characters and courses.
This game has just half the courses that the final Tiger Woods game had. It also has just a quarter of the total players.
I didn’t mind the title, and I played it for a cool three hours without blinking an eye or thinking twice about what I was doing with my Saturday afternoon.
But I am a golf junkie.
The rest of the world is not.
This game does little to attract the common fan.
Miguel Angel Jimenez’s virtual character strikes a pose after hitting a shot on Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour on Playstation 4. The game was released earlier this summer. It hasn’t drawn good reviews from critics who say that the game lacks the options of other golf games that are on the market.
