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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10
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| List Price: | $49.99 |
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Product Description
Feel the drama of playing tournament golf with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10. For the first time in franchise history, take aim at capturing the U.S. Open Championship on the ever-challenging Bethpage Black. Playing in front of huge galleries and hearing crowd reactions from nearby holes, take your game to the next level when it matters most as you try to hold off a charging Tiger Woods and other PGA TOUR Pros. Whether you're fighting the course, the crowd, dynamic weather conditions, or the field, feel the drama on every swing with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #80 in Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Model: 19019
- Published on: 2009-06
- Released on: 2009-06-08
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Platform: Nintendo Wii
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .57" h x 5.46" w x 7.55" l, .36 pounds
Features
- Trade your clubs for discs in a fun, new game mode based on the family-fun sport of Disc Golf. Play from custom tee locations on all 27 courses in the game.
- Wii Motion Plus Integration elevates your game with an enhanced, true-to-life golf swing that features precise draw-fade capabilities and authentic sports motion which mirrors your every move.
- For the first time ever, feel the drama of playing in the US Open, one of golf¿s biggest¿and toughest¿tournaments of the year.
- Replay dramatic scenarios from past PGA Tour seasons as you¿re placed on the course at the precise moment before history was made¿only this time, you determine the outcome.
- Play alongside actual PGA Tour Pros during real-world PGA tour events or swing away in daily and weekly tournaments as you fight to stay atop the leaderboard.
Editorial Reviews
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Customer Reviews
Wicked fun, but plenty of the ridiculous too.
First, let me say that I really, REALLY enjoy this game. You absolutely must have the motion plus attachment to get the most out of the game, too. I actually did take my motion plus off once and played that way... and not only did I lose a substantial amount of control over what I was doing with the swing, but the feedback is pretty worthless too. With the motion plus you get the club face angle and the direction of the swing. Without the motion plus you get only the direction. Also, one great improvement in my mind is that it's much more difficult to hole out a shot from the fairway. I played TW 09 about a dozen times (renting it) and had about 15 holes-in-one and numerous other eagles by sinking it from the fairway. When the heart thumps started and the close-up on the ball came on, I learned to leave the spin alone because that thing was going in the hole EVERY TIME. On TW 10 the heart thumps mean it's getting CLOSE, but I've only had one ace in two months of play... and I like it since it's more realistic.
So, that being said, there is much to ridicule about this game. Most of it happens if you happen to be pretty good at it. Let's suppose you're playing a tournament and (either because you're that good or have a great round) shoot something like a 61 or lower, and nobody else has shot better than 67 or so. You would think that you have a nice cushion, right? Well, you do until you tee off the next round. The computer AI apparently thinks anyone who shoots 61 is a sandbagger (for the non-golfer, that's someone who is a lot better than he or she claims to be and shoots much better than his or her handicap). As a result, in the next round (and subsequent rounds in that tournament), the computer-controlled players will start shooting scores like 56 or 57 so that they can catch up to you. The problem is, if you don't normally shoot as low as 61 and wind up following it with 67 or 68, you're now behind, and you won't catch up unless you can shoot 55 or so in the round following. So to win a tournament you must either (a) hold back by missing putts or hitting the occasional shot out of bounds so you don't beat the AI players by too much, or (b) simply shoot 54 or 55 each round so they can never catch up.
Within all that are the individual updates. It's interesting to read that someone in the tournament has double-eagled a hole... especially if it's a par 3, since that means the score on the hole was a ZERO!!!!! Tell me how that works, please? I've yet to finish a hole in TW golf (or in real golf, for that matter) with a ZERO! The only thing that was nearly as ridiculous as that was noticing that someone had made a hole-in-one... on #2 at TPC Sawgrass, which is a par-5!
Needless to say, I try to ignore those stupid updates and play my game, but it's a little annoying to think that for all the effort they put into the game, such stupid things are a part of it. Maybe they'll fix it for TW 11, but who knows...
Tiger 10 is great
This game is just the kind I wanted when I bought the Wii. They have improved it a lot over 09 and using the Wii Plus just makes it that much better. The whole idea is computer games is to meet certain goals to increase your skills and performance, so no, it's not going to be great until you work your way up, take the challenges, increase your skill level and buy items which also increase your skills. I had to learn that with 09. Now that I know it I like 10 even better.
Some of the challenges are very easy, some are very hard. Isn't that the whole point of a game?
A great idea...finally perfected!
If you have ever hesitated to buy Tiger Woods before, then you should not hesitate to buy it now!
Purchasing the Wii Motion Plus brings this game on par with a new level of realism with the Wii Motion Plus capturing every nuance that your wrist has to offer. Want to fade your shot? Not a problem as long as you master the technique of spinning your wrist on a shot in the correct direction! Hitting straight can now be a challenge if you fail to keep from rotating your club during a swing!
The Wii Motion Plus controller is simply amazing in its ability to capture how you're holding your club and how you're swinging it. It certainly has brought Tiger Woods truly at a high level on the Wii platform to make you wonder why you would ever play it on any other console. This is what the Wii was made for and Electronic Arts finally "gets it."
Another fun little feature is the game's ability to take real weather data and apply it to the course that you're playing on. I even went to the trouble of verifying the actual weather...it's spot on.
Other fun features include disc golf which is fun for the whole family as well.
If you do decide to buy the game, try to get the Tiger Woods 10 Bundle which includes the Wii Motion Plus for $10 more. This is typically cheaper than getting the Wii Motion Plus on its own which normally retails for $19.99.
Have fun golfing! You will NOT be disappointed.
