The first one was an absolutely exceptional idea ruined by the following:
-Unacceptable, game-breaking performance with both serious frame-drops and massive screen-tearing to the extent that it would interrupt your swing;
-A diabolical menu system that would hang randomly and made courses hard to find; and
-Easily the worst commentary I've ever heard in a sports game, to the extent that I felt like the dev team was trolling me.
If those 3 things alone have been fixed, we could be looking at an incredible game.
The strengths of the first one were considerable:
-The best putting ever seen in a golf game. Felt so real it was incredible.
-Infinite courses with some great 'official' designs.
-Asymmetric online multiplayer and 'ghost' balls. This is simply THE way to do golf online. It's perfect, and everyone from Clap Hanz to Nintendo to EA should be copying it if they haven't already.
Will wait eagerly for reviews. My local course has shut down the front nine for returfing over the next 3 months so rather than playing 2/3 times a week I'm gonna be playing virtual golf instead I guess. Well timed with the release of this and Everybody's Golf in August.
May try this, I was very disappointed with EAs last golf game.
There was a lot to like about Rory PGA Tour but putting was inexplicably bad, which kinda killed it. The course selection was fantastic for a licensed game, however, and the courses had character, commentary regarding the courses was good and by and large the tee to green game was fun if you put it on expert. Problem was that there was the single player career was severely undercooked for what's supposed to be the PGA 'pro tour' game.
