Monday, September 27, 2004
Tiger Woods 2005 aka 'crack' review
It's pure crack cuz the last time my dad was addicted to a game, it was Dr. Mario. For NES.
The gameplay is similar to TW2004. The main reason you keep playing is the create player/golf RPG. It's just tons of fun to win tourneys, earn money, unlock items in the pro shop, increment your attributes, and do it all over again. There are an infinite number of ways to customize your character. As if sports games weren't addictive enough, right? After years of gamers hacking their PC copy to add individual shoes to the game, NBA Live finally added this option last year. Fighting games are doing it too, with VF4 starting the trend and Tekken5 continuing it. Customizable characters, unlockable items, some kind of career mode -- good.
The first character I created was myself. Pretty standard right? There are a ton of sliders to adjust so you can try to recreate yourself as accurately as possible. If you want an orc you can click randomize and it'll spit out some hideous creature. The guy I created just turned out to be the typical asian, was hard to get any closer. I got quickly bored of me, and next tried to create Michael Jordan. Beyond Tiger, there aren't that many "cool" golfers in the world. Two minutes later, I got frustrated and gave up. Then I created golf's "Anna Kournikova" and she's been my character ever since :)
There are a ton of new courses this year. Edgewood@Tahoe is quite fun to play, as is the course in Japan (I'm guessing they got the idea for Mount Fuji in the background from LOST IN TRANSLATION). However they axed a bunch of last years courses, only 3 remain. A bit of a shame, why not keep the old ones as well. Guess I'll have to fire up the course editor. Graphics this year are outstanding with lush vegetation and awesome water effects. My only complaint would be that some of the "victory animations" get repetitive.
At first I started out by dueling the local wackos on the legend tour. After beating them, I switched to playing tournaments where you can earn huge sums of money. This allows you to take lessons where you can improve your golf skills even more (i.e. controlling the amount of spin on your shots). There are also golfing challenges where you earn more money.
Basically there are a billion things to do. Say goodbye to your social life (if you are lucky enough to have one).
¶ 10:53 AM
The gameplay is similar to TW2004. The main reason you keep playing is the create player/golf RPG. It's just tons of fun to win tourneys, earn money, unlock items in the pro shop, increment your attributes, and do it all over again. There are an infinite number of ways to customize your character. As if sports games weren't addictive enough, right? After years of gamers hacking their PC copy to add individual shoes to the game, NBA Live finally added this option last year. Fighting games are doing it too, with VF4 starting the trend and Tekken5 continuing it. Customizable characters, unlockable items, some kind of career mode -- good.
The first character I created was myself. Pretty standard right? There are a ton of sliders to adjust so you can try to recreate yourself as accurately as possible. If you want an orc you can click randomize and it'll spit out some hideous creature. The guy I created just turned out to be the typical asian, was hard to get any closer. I got quickly bored of me, and next tried to create Michael Jordan. Beyond Tiger, there aren't that many "cool" golfers in the world. Two minutes later, I got frustrated and gave up. Then I created golf's "Anna Kournikova" and she's been my character ever since :)
There are a ton of new courses this year. Edgewood@Tahoe is quite fun to play, as is the course in Japan (I'm guessing they got the idea for Mount Fuji in the background from LOST IN TRANSLATION). However they axed a bunch of last years courses, only 3 remain. A bit of a shame, why not keep the old ones as well. Guess I'll have to fire up the course editor. Graphics this year are outstanding with lush vegetation and awesome water effects. My only complaint would be that some of the "victory animations" get repetitive.
At first I started out by dueling the local wackos on the legend tour. After beating them, I switched to playing tournaments where you can earn huge sums of money. This allows you to take lessons where you can improve your golf skills even more (i.e. controlling the amount of spin on your shots). There are also golfing challenges where you earn more money.
Basically there are a billion things to do. Say goodbye to your social life (if you are lucky enough to have one).
¶ 10:53 AM
