Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 takes golf game to a new level of realism. Try the new generation of technology as Tiger Woods comes to life - you see and feel every emotion in detail, as shown on the screen in the face and movements of the golfers. Play under pressure just like the professionals, and go further in their game with the enhanced career mode. Tiger Woods Comes Alive: see and feel every emotion in every detail with the introduction of the new Universal Capture (UCAP) technology. The No. 1 golfer seems so real, you will not believe your eyes. GameFace the most profound changes with a new tool, more apparel, equipment licenses, and specialty items challenge up to three players in five new game modes, or play in online tournaments with lists of silver, full stat tracking, league leaders, and more work on your game or challenge a friend in Match Play, Battle Golf, 21, OneBall, and more
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Great Fun - Regular Golf plus Mini-Games
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 for the PS3 really helps to show how far golf games have come. The motions are fluid, the characters realistic, and the gameplay is fun.
First, the gameplay. That's always what matters most in a sports game. We've been playing a lot of Wii sports games and are really impressed with being able to swing the controller like a golf club, which is very "natural". That being said, they did a great job here with what they had available.
Rather than using a "power bar" like some golf games, you simply watch the golfer on the screen, and judge by his actual swing. This means you have to have some knowledge about the real game of golf, to know how much a golfer *should* swing. However, it also means that this doesn't turn into an arcadey button-pushing exercise. You're actually paying attention to the swing and proper form.
On the other hand, once the ball goes up into the air, you can press buttons to affect its flight - including once it lands. I find this a little cheap myself, as if you have a remote control and are moving the ball around. I realize that it'd be a lot to ask a player to do, to control the swing speed, angle, backspin, etc. while they are swinging - but again that would be realistic. So with one hand they giveth, and with the other they taketh away.
There are the standard styles of gameplay here - match play, best ball, as well as a range of fun mini-games. I really like how they handled the tutorials, allowing you to jump in and out of them as you need to. They even let you read them, watch them, or just try them, based on your individual style.
There are different levels of difficulty, so you can let your kid play in easy mode to learn the game, while the experienced golfers can tune their gameplay with a more difficult challenge.
The graphics are rather impressive for a just-after-launch title for a new console. You don't expect those releases to be able to fully utilize what the PS3 offers, but they did well here. Tiger Woods himself looks very realistic and impressive; his movements are quite smooth. You can see individual blades of grass on the greens. The water is a little odd, and the trees are a little pixelly, but I'm sure when '08 comes out they'll nail some of those smaller details.
The key thing with golf is mainly that you can see the fairway, and then read the greens. You don't really pay attention to the details on the audience's faces. I do like how they handle the greens in this game vs in other golf games. The combinations of grids, lines and colors give you a good sense of each area of the green. There are even nice details like shadows of clouds drifting by and reflections in objects.
Does anybody really listen to sound in a golf game? You get the roaring of the ocean, the chirping of birds, and the inane chatter of the commentary folks. Some of their statements made me laugh out loud. You can choose various songs if you're playing with a soundtrack.
If you're a golfer with a PS3, this is definitely the game to get. If you've got other systems, it'll depend if you like the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wii enough to offset the lower graphics on that system ... or the motion-twisting PS3 controller vs the 360.
These Guys Are Good
Real-life golfers and folks that don't play golf in real life will enjoy Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07. But if you are a golfer and you are at all familiar with the players and the 12 courses offered in this game, you will find this game most enjoyable.
The courses/players are modeled after the real things, and they are indeed designed to play just like them too. You get Pinehurst, Turnberry, Carnoustie, TPC at Sawgrass, Pebble Beach, Firestone, Glen Abbey, The Prince Course, Spyglass Hill, Riviera, Bandon Dunes & St. Andrews...or you can tell the game to choose a random 18 (or 9).
You can choose to play as some popular golfers that all look like perfectly created CGI versions of the real players [with the exception of Colin Montgomerie who looks more like a scary character out of the other game that I'm currently fascinated with, Resident Evil 4 (PS2 format)]. But the best and most fun way to play is creating your own golfer that you save; then improve your skills through the driving range, practice games and challenge matches.
Besides stroke, match and skins play, there are several other game modes to try (which, frankly, I have not done yet).
It is vital that you play in the aforementioned three modes prior to joining the PGA Tour which is, just like the real thing, a series of Thursday through Sunday four day events (you don't really have to play them on Thursday through Sunday).
Completing practice games and events rewards you with improved skills and cash to spend in the pro shop on items that also help improve your skills.
David Feherty and Gary McCord (the popular PGA TV announcers) narrate your game play during matches. And their commentary can be colorful at times (annoyingly so especially when you hit a bad shot).
I chose to work on my approach shot and putting at first as opposed to power. It has reaped big rewards. By doing that, in the Tiger Challenge mode, I'm already finishing rounds under par and kicking the butts of the likes of Vijay Singh, Retief Goosen and the one and only Tiger Woods. (Then I put down the SIXAXIS, see my actual clubs in the corner and think about the countless rounds of real golf in my future where just breaking 100 is a banner day.)
Up to 4 people can play at a time (my 5 year old crushed me yesterday; he played as Tiger; I played as me), and online play is an option (which I have not done).
After beating all of the golfers in the Tiger Challenge mode, your skill should be sharp enough to now play on the Tour in the Event Calendar mode; I'd highly recommend not joining the tour until you acquire the full potential of your skills by defeating golfers in the Tiger Challenge (and at the range).
Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07 on the PS3 can kill an hour quick if you've got one to spare. Fastest 18 I've ever played. When you're playing with more than one person, set aside a good amount of time if you go a full 18 holes.
Overall, this is a terrific game that is addictive as you are driven to improve your custom golfer's skills. It's great fun for the whole family. Add it to you cart.
Be the ball.
Update: August 28, 2007....The '08 version releases today at more than double the price of the '07 version (as of this writing). A few courses have been added to the '08 version as well as some AI enhancements. But the '07 version at half the price (before it's discontinued and out of stock) is a no-brainer.
Great Gameplay, some more then ignorable graphic weaknesses.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour has been the best golf game for years, and with each new release, the better it gets. This year is no exception, however, the port to the PS3 was either rushed or the game designers are still learning how to create for the new console.
The game's greatest strength is the game play. EA has built on it's past achievements and brought a much more realistic round of golf to gaming. There are no more power bars with which to hit the shot just right, or any computer type menus to help you hit your shot. When striking a ball, all you see on screen is the golfer and his club. The strength and straightness of the shot is established by how much back swing you use and how straight your movement is on the thumb stick. This brings a much more genuine feel than the use of power bars and graphical guides and is a bit more fun then just trying to get a cursor to stop and start where you want it to.
You will have to analyze every aspect of the shot to succeed in this game. The wind, the lay, the elevation. I know that is typical of any good golf game, but the controls give all this new meaning an importance. Hitting a ball at 70% power without the assistance of a power bar brings a whole new level of difficulty and satisfaction once you master it.
EA also spent more time creating the computer generated (CG) Tiger. His skin tones are near perfect, his animation is smoother then ever before and he just looks plain awesome. On the downside no other player is rendered at anywhere near the same quality as Tiger, making it a bit distracting to play as anyone else. You have the ability to create your own player, but the results look last generation compared to the CG Tiger.
Here comes the real problem with the PS3 version...
The graphics of the courses themselves are much lower then on the xbox 360 version. The flaws here are not uncommon to early adopters of any new console, but after seeing the beautiful 360 game, it's hard to ignore what's lacking here.
The trees and leaves are very crunchy and noisy and the background falls off to downright ugly very quickly. Some render artifacts are apparent and just nasty. Some of the windows on nearby buildings flicker and flash as the PS3 tries to generate them and the result is by no means next gen. Even the grass on the putting green is soft and blurry. The 360 version is close to photo real when looking at it from above. On the PS3 it looks no better then the PS2.
If you are lucky enough to have both systems, you will be mistaken to grab the PS3 port, but if you're a one system kind of guy/gal and the PS3 is that system, then have no doubts, you will enjoy this game and be able to spend many hours blistering your thumbs.
Price: $17.10
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