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Summary: I can't even install it
Review: I always get a Error type 1 (a memory error). It won't install. I have 768 MB of Ram. What a thrill to have a game that won't load.
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Summary: Similar in appearance to LS 97-2000, until you actually play
Review: I got the cd-rom, was annoyed by the mandatory loading of disc 1 to play. There may be a way around it, if you delete the Intro Quicktime Bold Gator video from your Links CE folder. After doing that, I don't have to place disc 1 in for verification anymore when I play CE. At the very least, you won't have to see the stupid video each time you start Links CE. The adding of courses via the CD's 1-4 can be spotty, sometimes not loading them to your hard drive, but insisting on loading them from directly from the cd. You should be able to place CRZ courses directly into the courses folder and have them show up from the course manager as available courses. As for play, the graphics do not dazzle, but CE has changed significantly in ball physics, both in flight, and in putting. Also, hitting into the rough has huge penalties, just like it should. In links 2000, except for special rough on some courses, most of the time you just went down an Iron. The putting is much harder and the colored grids are nice for viewing gradient changes. The CRX to CRZ course converter results in courses that look just like they did when you played them in LS 2000 but with the new physics in effect--much more fun. THe games can be buggy in some cases when hitting the ball, but all in all, this games plays similar to the windows version, just does not look quite as nice. The worst thing about this game is the inability to play Windows users online--I dont get that at all, it is senseless. Still, this is a great golf game! Make sure you have plenty of RAM, and a g-5 dual would not hurt.
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Summary: Wish it worked better
Review: I had high hopes for this game. Pre-ordered and waited months. The Graphics are beautiful, the courses are challenging, but after a few weeks of crashing every other time I played, I've purged the game from my files and am using all that memory for more productive endeavors. A major disappointment. I refuse to re-configure my computer for a game.
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Summary: Some answers for other reviewers, I hope...
Review: I have a G3/350 512MRam ATI Rage 128 running OSx.1.5 & 9.2.2. The game installed and ran right out of the box, there that's a few myths dispelled. It does run in X (better than 9 actually), it does work with a Rage, it doesn't require a Dual 1.25Ghz G4. For the reviewer from Watertown, USA - the remaining animations are on the CDs. For Marcus Lingl - read the readme, get the ATI updated drivers for X and it will run just fine, better than in 9 actually. For the many peope who want to know why it took so long take a look at http://www.greendragon.com/links.html For anyone who is curious to learn more and maybe find more help for their problems with CE, come and join us at http://www.linksgolfcommunity.com All we use are Macs and all we play is Links
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Summary: excellent
Review: I have a PowerBook FireWire labtop running OS 9.1 with 128Mb memory and this game works flawlessly for me. It has never crashed nor have there ever been any graphics problems. I play the game with every bell and wistle at a maximum and have never had a problem.
It is nice to play a video game that is actually challenging and requires some attentive playing. The courses are beautiful and the sound is wonderful. I recommend it to anyone interested in playing golf at home.
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Summary: Warning! Save Your Money!
Review: I ordered this game in January 2002 after seeing an advert in Mac World. I guess I bought into the hype and had high expectations. I finally received the product in August. I've only played it once, yesterday, and I was frankly shocked at how bad it is. I'm writing to warn you to save your money. Despite being released many months late, this feels like Beta software. You can choose from 12 different golfers, but there are only animations for two of them. The Arnold Palmer animation is acceptable, I guess, but where's the rest of the characters? I cannot figure out why the software was distributed on 4 CD-ROMs, each of which holds 200 MB or so of data. Juggling 4 discs is clunky -- it doesn't seem like the distribution was well thought out. Only Discs 1 and 4 are needed for installation of the game and the course designer, respectively. The scanty documentation does not mention what Discs 2 and 3 are for. I got prompted to insert Disc 2 the first time I played a new course. I'm guessing the geometry of the various courses is stored on that disc. Excuse my language, but apart from the Arnold Palmer animation, the quality of the graphics sucks. The details of the main views of the courses are noticeably grainy. The interface is sluggish, clunky and unresponsive. I think my old Links LS was a much better golf game. For what it's worth, I'm running this program under Mac OS X on a Power Mac G4 with 512 MB of memory. Maybe I need to change the screen resolution somehow, or perhaps the program works better if installed under Mac OS 9... I haven't tried any of this yet. I keep thinking I must be missing something basic about the set-up because as it is I just can't believe how bad the game is.
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Summary: Nice challenging golf game for the Mac
Review: I play this game usually in downtime on the train or just to kick back and relax for a challenging round. Graphically it is a pretty good game but nowhere near the graphics level of PS2 or XBox. The physics of the game are fantastic and the courses rather challenging. Seems extremely difficult to get a hole in one. I run this on my Powerbook G4 with 768 megs of ram and the 8 megs of video running OS 10.2.4. It runs flawlessly when no other apps are open, but if you have a few ram intensive apps open, close them before you begin the game. One enhancement that I see as a neccessity is the ability to still navigate the dock when the game is running. I run iTunes at the same time as playing usually, and if I have to close the screen for some reason, iTunes stops playing and cannot be restarted without going to the dock.
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Summary: Links LS was better
Review: I too looked forward to this release, having gotten sick of the same 3 courses on Links LS. Great variety of courses here, great graphics, but if there were a ranger on the course, this game would be warned for slow play. It simply takes forever (I guess with Sergio Garcia in the package, that should be no surprise). I don't mind flip-flopping the CDs all the time, but I've played REAL rounds of golf in less time. My system isn't the fastest but I didn't expect anything like this.
Also, sometimes the golfer will hit shots to places no where near the spot to which they were aimed. I've aimed the marker straight into the hole on a 3 foot putt and the stupid guy hits it almost directly to the right.
And those comments! Awful! My golfing buddies would laugh me off the course if I said most of those moronic lines. "I am the spanker"! I think I know what THAT guy is spanking, and it ain't a golf ball.
A fun game but too slow--not worth the money. And if anyone has figured out that course designer (someone without a degree in computer design/graphics, that is), I'd like to know about it!
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Summary: Links LS was better
Review: I too looked forward to this release, having gotten sick of the same 3 courses on Links LS. Great variety of courses here, great graphics, but if there were a ranger on the course, this game would be warned for slow play. It simply takes forever (I guess with Sergio Garcia in the package, that should be no surprise). I don't mind flip-flopping the CDs all the time, but I've played REAL rounds of golf in less time. My system isn't the fastest but I didn't expect anything like this.
Also, sometimes the golfer will hit shots to places no where near the spot to which they were aimed. I've aimed the marker straight into the hole on a 3 foot putt and the stupid guy hits it almost directly to the right.
And those comments! Awful! My golfing buddies would laugh me off the course if I said most of those moronic lines. "I am the spanker"! I think I know what THAT guy is spanking, and it ain't a golf ball.
A fun game but too slow--not worth the money. And if anyone has figured out that course designer (someone without a degree in computer design/graphics, that is), I'd like to know about it!
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Summary: Nice, but will it ever actually be released?
Review: I too played this game quite a bit at MW SF. It was the best, most realistic golf game that I've ever seen. Still waiting for it to be released. And waiting, and waiting. MWSF was in January, btw. They've been delaying the release of this game quite often. Not sure why. In the 20-30 minutes that I played it at MWSF, under OS X, it seemed quite polished and stable. Not a single crash. Can't wait!
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