The game introduces several new real-life courses to play on, as well as a few fantasy courses; unfortunately, many of the courses included in Tiger Woods PGA Tour have been omitted, dropping the total number of playable courses from 19 to It's still a solid collection of courses that cover a great variety of locations, but it's a shame that classic courses like TPC Scottsdale and Spyglass Hill aren't included.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour was the first in the series to introduce online play, though it was only available on the PlayStation 2 version. This year it comes to the Xbox as well, and both versions have basically identical online capabilities, letting you play one-on-one with another player or compete in EA-sponsored online tourneys. Though the online is completely functional, it's not really much improved over the online support in Tiger for the PS2.
Though the visuals have received minor touch-ups year after year, the core graphics engine that powers Tiger Woods has been pretty much the same for the past three years. Tiger makes some modest improvements over the graphics in Tiger , with the player models looking more realistic and emotive than ever, but there are other aspects of the visuals that are now starting to show their age.
When you're doing a flyby, everything still looks nice and realistic, but it doesn't hold up as well upon close inspection. A lot of the foliage surrounding the courses has a kind of flat look to it, the picket fence-like rows of grass blades that make up the rough are plainly visible, and some of the fairway and green textures can look a little blurry.
The series really started to establish its own visual flavor back in Tiger Woods PGA Tour , when it introduced a bevy of dramatic camera effects to give more impact to powerful tee shots and make tense approaches and putts even more nail biting. Tiger maintains these designs.
This year, EA has done away with many of the older shots and introduced a whole new set of crazy effects, which include a sepia-tone effect and a zoomed-in shot that follows the ball off the tee.
Some of these effects are quite effective, but their overall quality just doesn't seem quite as consistent as in the past.
All three console versions of Tiger Woods PGA Tour are pretty much comparable in terms of content and quality, though there are a few system-specific idiosyncrasies. The graphics on the PlayStation 2 seem especially aliased, and along with a lack of online support, the textures in the GameCube version seem to have just a bit less clarity than the other two versions. And, like last year's Tiger, the GameCube version of Tiger comes on two discs, which is a testament to the amount of content contained within the game, to be sure, but having to swap between discs at seemingly arbitrary points in the game is a hassle.
Most of the differences are ultimately pretty nominal, but when compared side-by-side-by-side, the Xbox version definitely has the greatest graphical fidelity. Their delivery is natural and unhurried, and more irreverent than ever. Even though this means you'll have to hear a few more bad puns from Feherty, it can be amusing when one of them miscalls a shot and the other chides him for it. Outside the commentary, the sound is pretty good, though some of the "wackiness" creeps into the environmental sounds.
The most obvious example of this is the sound of another golfer shouting "fore! It's kind of clever the first time you hear it, but the joke doesn't really stand up to multiple plays. Save for the inclusion of OutKast's "The Way You Move," which plays by default at so many of the menus that, despite being catchy, it quickly wears out its welcome, the rest of the music in the game is provided by dance music producer BT.
The soundtrack has a uniformly relaxed ambience to it. Rather than vie for your attention, the soundtrack here does what it should: complement the visuals and help establish the mood. From strictly a bullet-point perspective, Tiger Woods PGA Tour is a more full-featured game than last year's with the notable exception of the smaller number of courses , and it still stands as one of the best games of golf for the PlayStation 2. However, many of its improvements over Tiger Woods PGA Tour feel kind of incremental, and unless you're an Xbox owner who is itching to take the game online, owners of Tiger shouldn't necessarily rush out to pick it up.
Technologically, we added an entirely new face creation system where the user can overlay several textures onto the face, as well as blend between different ages, skin colors, and skin tones. Additionally, we added height scaling and a bunch of other new sliders. GS: Obviously, last year's introduction of GameFace was impressive. What's new this time around? How detailed can gamers get this year? We feel we have achieved this goal. The industry-leading GameFace technology just got a whole lot deeper, with more control and freedom to let you express your creative vision from a youthful prodigy to a grizzled veteran.
Using the new texture blending and bone scaling, GameFace II provides nearly infinite combinations of facial proportions and features, fully customizable body physique and tone, and a host of new equipment and accessories to adorn your created player. Create and place both logos on your apparel and tattoos on your character. Everything you see in game on your character can be customized, from your swing to the way you react to your shot. Make sure to pick a funny hat. DW: This year the number of items available to the player has more than doubled.
Sponsors like Oakley, Never Compromise, True Temper, Grafalloy, Dunlop, and Cobra have been added to increase the variety and type of equipment and apparel available. In addition, the entire lineup of sponsored equipment and apparel has been updated to the new lineup. Six years later, after ceding space in the golf world to longtime competitor 2K, EA Sports re-emerged in March of , announcing its intent to revive the PGA Tour franchise.
It was then overshadowed by far-less-serious circumstances just two weeks later, when EA announced the return of the series Woods once fronted. Released in and , The Golf Club and The Golf Club 2 were niche course-design tools more than the full Tour-branded, golf simulation fans had previously come to expect from EA.
Featuring 15 real-world Tour stops at launch, the likenesses of a handful of Tour pros, and the inclusion of equipment and apparel manufacturers, 2K finally returned to golf gamers what they had previously received from EA Sports years prior. Bucket-list venues like Augusta, Cypress Point, Pine Valley, Merion, Oakmont and more are easily accessible in 2K thanks to dedicated users who have painstakingly reproduced these courses down to the individual blades of grass.
We're super excited to tell you more, but until then we're continuing to add new multiplayer content in PGA Tour 2K21 so our fans can get in and play together today.
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