Before a crucial Masters tee shot, a fan’s body blocked the swing meter. Graphical beauty can occasionally create problems. Each typically lasts for a few swings – say, a driving accuracy test – then back to a loading screen, then the menu. Training challenges offer sponsorships and XP, but it’s clumsy and tedious. When combined with the slow progress, the pressure to spend feels overt. Meanwhile, PGA Tour pesters players to spend between $5 to $50 on in-game cash for new shirts or a +3 club power boost to speed up this process. Earning XP happens quickly at first, but the final stages in each stat take way too long, and the currency accumulates just as slowly. Only generic heads and an abysmally small line of clothes fill the menus, the latter widening via the in-game shop.įrom there, it’s a matter of entering tournaments, playing majors, and leveling up. Setting up a career (the only long-term single-player mode), the disappointing character creator limits your options. That’s the crisis facing EA Sports PGA Tour, trapped with the studio’s arcade-esque legacy while competing with golf-sim rival 2K Sports. Notably returning is the chance to jam a button for power during the backswing and add spin as the ball goes skyward, a wholly unrealistic option. Even on easy, if the swing is a smidgen off in power or straightness, it misses, short putt or not.Įlements from EA’s retired Tiger Woods series remain. Greens present a useless guide showing the best ball track but no indication of what that line represents to help aim. This becomes more forgiving when leveling, however marginal the gain. With the ball airborne, a small window shows the analog stick’s motion, and any left/right deviation (no matter how small) means a drastic gaffe. That’s true to the sport, as any one of those can cause a botched shot, yet EA’s PGA Tour doesn’t allow a sense of what’s going wrong at the moment. Each stroke accounts for forward and backswing speed, length, loft, and wind. The analog stick swing functions logically, but results vary, with little feedback on what sent a tee shot slicing toward trees. Fairways and greens seem stuck on their hardest/fastest setting. Prestige comes with a cost – this is a daunting golf sim. Each hole is lined with realistic-looking spectators, but their lack of reaction when struck with a ball removes the immersion. Gorgeous vistas line the courses, and every individually rendered blade of grass is visible, even on the fairway. Quiet commentary meaningfully discusses each hole during flybys. Presentation counts, like the Masters’ first day showing opening tee shots from Jack Nicklaus and others. In licensing, EA wins, scoring the Masters and key courses like Pebble Beach. While gorgeous, with pro golf’s best interactive presentation, the on-the-course action delivers inconsistent results. The North Course at Olympia Fields Country Club is now available across game modes.EA returns to the PGA with an inconsistent, frustrating simulation, struggling with its identity. New technology allows every golf ball bounce and roll to behave more accurately across a greater variety of terrain and course conditions. Innovative Ball Behavior has been redesigned from the ground up. Every fairway, green, and rough is meticulously scanned, handcrafted, and uniquely tuned to simulate the individual nuances of different courses and terrain variables like undulations, ground cover, and grass type. Lifelike Course Dynamics ensure no two golf courses play the same. The 20 different Shot Types in EA SPORTS PGA TOUR give golfers all the tools to attack every hole like a pro. Powered by official PGA TOUR ShotLink® and TrackMan data, Pure Strike provides unique golf swings with a fluid feel, and realistic outcomes on every golf shot.
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