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Summary: good but unrealistic
Review: it is a good game but the scoring of the computer is unrealisitc. in the 3rd tournament to get to the next level in the career there is no way you can be -8 after a round with almost 40 mph winds. gimme a break. i am currently frustrated as all hell with that. the best i can do is even par. if you dont play the career mode its good but if you do play it plan to be quite frustrated.
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Summary: Great golf game!
Review: The 2003 version of EA Sports Tiger Woods is a game that everyone can enjoy. I am a golfer and love it. However, I could see anyone that simply likes to play computer games enjoying this game. The last version I had was the 2000 EA Sports and the new version is drastically improved. Career mode on the 2003 version is fun and challenging. The only drawback that I have found so far is that the commentary can get annoying at times, but there is a feature to turn it off.
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Summary: Freeze up Galore
Review: This game crashes more than a drunken pilot.A total waste of money.
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Summary: Addicting!
Review: This game is definitely addicting, and a lot of fun to play. Advice: Be sure to read and familiarize yourself with all the features and shortcuts (F1-F9 camera angles, quick-keys for club selection, advance to next-shot, etc, etc...) as it makes the game that much more fluid and enjoyable, and saves you time having to "click" around. The Career Mode is awesome, although I have already quickly made it to the Tour level (3 of 5 levels), even though I've only been playing the game for 2 days. (Would like to have been a little more challenged for longer?!) I also agree with the other reviewer, that the commentary can get annoying- but that's not a big deal, and you can turn it off. The "True Swing" works well.
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Summary: tiger woods 2k3
Review: this game is great, i like to scratch my nuts while i play the game and then sniff my fingers, i'm not sure what that has to do with the game but i thought i'd add that in. nothin bad to say, sweet graphics!!!
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Summary: Review of the PC version
Review: This is a landmark video golf game that should appeal to every golf fanatic and novice. It offers every type of gameplay conceivable: stroke, alternate shot, match play, Stableford, skin game, skill shot competition, four ball, etc. You can play in "career mode", where you start as a rookie, compete in calendar events, improve your equipments, and improve to pro, champion, and master status. You can play in "season mode", where you create a new player (male or female) with the abilities of your choosing, and compete in an editable list of events. You can also, of course, just play a single match where you choose the course, the number of holes, and the opponent(s). You can also play some "side competitions" to earn some quick money. You can also hit the practice range, or take some golfing lessons as well. The game keeps good statistics of your player -- number of holes played, driving distance and accuracy, number of chip-ins, aces, pars, birdies, and bogeys, money earned, all-around ranking, round-by-round scores of each event, etc. Statistics of virtual players are kept only when you choose them as your opponents before each round. Your statistics in everything you participated in, whether in season mode, single match, or side events, are consolidated. One unique feature in the game is its use of "TrueSwing" motion to simulate the club swinging motion. You simply move your mouse backward to backswing, then move it forward to swing. In my opinion, this is an infinitely more intuitive, more realistic, more controllable, and more exciting method of simulating the swinging motion than the traditional 3-click or 2-click methods (included in the game also) used in older golf games. The effectiveness of the swing depends on the straightness, steadiness, and speed of your mouse swing. To hit a fade or a draw shot (a curve ball), you need to move the mouse in a diagonal, yet still straight and steady, line. TrueSwing offers 5 difficulty settings: "Amateur" and "Pro" settings give you a bigger margin of error, while "Tour", "Champion", and "Master" settings require you to move the mouse in an almost perfectly straight line. Many standard features are present as well. On each hole, you can see caddie's advice. You can view a hole "fly-by". Before each shot, the computer makes a club selection for you (which is sometimes a poor choice). You can see a "shot target" view that shows you the ball's projected destination -- which may be cheating, but the projections are not always accurate. You are shown the wind speed and direction. If the ball is in the hazard, you are told whether it is in light rough, deep rough, light sand, etc. You can see an overhead view of the hole, and access several camera angles. If you like your last shot, you can save it to be replayed later. Also, the computer automatically saves whatever good shot that you hit. Unfortunately, the last shot of each hole cannot be saved (a bug?), unless the computer saves it automatically for you. The game comes with 12 courses, with a nice variety of geography, difficulties, and scenic qualities. It also comes with a course designer. And you can download courses designed by other users on the web. The game's graphics look very realistic. There are many 3D-rendered objects as well as some judicious use of 2D sprites. Human players look very life-like; many real-life PGA Tour players are rendered in various degree of realism -- Singh, Garcia, Montgomery, O'Meara, Furyk, etc., and of course, Woods. Spectators don't look or behave very convincingly, however. This game was released a year ago, and it runs pretty smoothly on my Pentium 4 2.4 GHz with a GeForce4 video card at 1280x1024x32 resolution. There is a demo version of this game (which can be downloaded at many PC games web sites, such as gamesdomain.com) that you can try to see if your PC can run it. But the upcoming 2004 version, to be released later this year, will surely require new hardware that will take advantage of DirectX 9.0, which enables much more realistic-looking graphics to be created.
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Summary: Review of the PC version
Review: This is a landmark video golf game that should appeal to every golf fanatic and novice. It offers every type of gameplay conceivable: stroke, alternate shot, match play, Stableford, skin game, skill shot competition, four ball, etc. You can play in "career mode", where you start as a rookie, compete in calendar events, improve your equipments, and improve to pro, champion, and master status. You can play in "season mode", where you create a new player (male or female) with the abilities of your choosing, and compete in an editable list of events. You can also, of course, just play a single match where you choose the course, the number of holes, and the opponent(s). You can also play some "side competitions" to earn some quick money. You can also hit the practice range, or take some golfing lessons as well. The game keeps good statistics of your player -- number of holes played, driving distance and accuracy, number of chip-ins, aces, pars, birdies, and bogeys, money earned, all-around ranking, round-by-round scores of each event, etc. Statistics of virtual players are kept only when you choose them as your opponents before each round. Your statistics in everything you participated in, whether in season mode, single match, or side events, are consolidated. One unique feature in the game is its use of "TrueSwing" motion to simulate the club swinging motion. You simply move your mouse backward to backswing, then move it forward to swing. In my opinion, this is an infinitely more intuitive, more realistic, more controllable, and more exciting method of simulating the swinging motion than the traditional 3-click or 2-click methods (included in the game also) used in older golf games. The effectiveness of the swing depends on the straightness, steadiness, and speed of your mouse swing. To hit a fade or a draw shot (a curve ball), you need to move the mouse in a diagonal, yet still straight and steady, line. TrueSwing offers 5 difficulty settings: "Amateur" and "Pro" settings give you a bigger margin of error, while "Tour", "Champion", and "Master" settings require you to move the mouse in an almost perfectly straight line. Many standard features are present as well. On each hole, you can see caddie's advice. You can view a hole "fly-by". Before each shot, the computer makes a club selection for you (which is sometimes a poor choice). You can see a "shot target" view that shows you the ball's projected destination -- which may be cheating, but the projections are not always accurate. You are shown the wind speed and direction. If the ball is in the hazard, you are told whether it is in light rough, deep rough, light sand, etc. You can see an overhead view of the hole, and access several camera angles. If you like your last shot, you can save it to be replayed later. Also, the computer automatically saves whatever good shot that you hit. Unfortunately, the last shot of each hole cannot be saved (a bug?), unless the computer saves it automatically for you. The game comes with 12 courses, with a nice variety of geography, difficulties, and scenic qualities. It also comes with a course designer. And you can download courses designed by other users on the web. The game's graphics look very realistic. There are many 3D-rendered objects as well as some judicious use of 2D sprites. Human players look very life-like; many real-life PGA Tour players are rendered in various degree of realism -- Singh, Garcia, Montgomery, O'Meara, Furyk, etc., and of course, Woods. Spectators don't look or behave very convincingly, however. This game was released a year ago, and it runs pretty smoothly on my Pentium 4 2.4 GHz with a GeForce4 video card at 1280x1024x32 resolution. There is a demo version of this game (which can be downloaded at many PC games web sites, such as gamesdomain.com) that you can try to see if your PC can run it. But the upcoming 2004 version, to be released later this year, will surely require new hardware that will take advantage of DirectX 9.0, which enables much more realistic-looking graphics to be created.
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