Re: Tiger Woods 10 (360, PS3, Wii, PC, PSP, iPhone, Nokia95, Barclays card reader...)
(Before I start I should point out that I'm utter crap at 99% of games...)
Practically finished the game now, which is a real shame. Not in terms of game completion %, in terms of every game I play I'm winning against the CPU, on the hardest difficulty, so there's no incentive to carry on.
Been up since around 5am this morning so I decided to do a four round tournament. Literally, IN THE FIRST ROUND, I had the top five drive records, the least putts record, the most fairways in regulation record, the most greens in regulation record, and another one (most birdies record?).
What made me laugh was that after this, and after beating my nearest competitor Vijay Singh by 5 shots, my power, shot accuracy, short game and putting stats all went down. Okay then, so I beat everybody in the PGA Tour, in my first season ever, and you're saying I played poorly? Whatever. (And after four rounds, beating everyone in my first season to win the very first PGA Tour event after becoming a pro, they all went down 10%...)
Since then in every round I've broke all of the above records again, and I ended up winning by a mile. This is the hardest difficulty, and I've not even got maximum stats like all the kiddies online who've paid for them (currently I'm 9.7 power, 9.2 accuracy, 9.2 short game, 10.2 putting - all out of 12).
As a golf sim I have to say it's absolutely pathetic, it provides no challenge whatsoever and the fact that you can hit 340 yards every time after you've got 50% of the way through the Tournament Challenge mode is utterly ridiculous. You can't get a challenge against the CPU and online you can't get a fair game, people get scores of -25 per round - my question is, how can EA sit back, look at those scores and say "this is all looking good"? It's the equivalent of winning games of FIFA 18-10 game in game out.
I tried the extreme tournament to get a challenge - even though the scores there are still around -20 - and when you get to the greens there's no grid. Now I want it to be hard, and if you could actually see some kind of breaks purely by looking at the lighting, I'd love that. But you can't. It's just a plain green surface, so you've got no chance unless you play the course so often you know the greens inside out. Maybe after playing it for six months I'll be okay with that but at the minute I just think, what's the point?
So what is left to do with the game if offline it's way too easy and online it's impossible?
2K Sports needs to make a golf game. Screw the licenses, let us all create custom characters and play online.
EDIT: Or someone needs to make a EUROPEAN PGA Tour game, with UK commentators and UK crowds, so we can avoid the "silly" commentary and the "WOO YEAH AWWW GO CRUSHER!!" crowd noise every time you fart...
. Won't be today though, tomorrow I reckon with a bit of luck, but if not then Tuesday.
