Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
by Electronic Arts
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Product Summary
Brand: Electronic ArtsRelease Date: 2007-08-28
Platform: Sony PSP
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Product features:
- Confidence Is a Factor-The all-new Shot Confidence feature uses factors from your previous rounds-including club selection, lie, hole, and more-to determine your confidence heading into each shot.
- Nine Unique Mental Games-Regain your composure and stay focused while playing one of the new confidence building micro-games. They're easy to pick up and hard to put down.
- 14 Championship Courses-Featuring eight new courses, experience the all-new PGA TOUR FedExCup championship format by teeing up at Westchester Country Club, TPC of Boston, Cog Hill, and East Lake.
Video Game Reviews of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Customer Review: Buggy Game Ruins and Frustrates an Otherwise Decent Woods Outing
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a simple review. It focuses solely on the negatives because they are so powerful, that no matter how good the positives are, they are completely eclipsed by the bad.
The game play is fun, the graphics are good but nothing special, and there are lot of courses, mini-games and interesting details and physics.
So why such a low review? The bugs in the game make it a miserable experience. There are two types of serious bugs in TW '08 for PSP. Why is this such a big deal? First, because the bugs are rampant and unpredictable.
The first bug is that the game freezes. A lot. As in dozens and dozens and dozens of times. A lot of the time the game simply freezes for no apparent reason at random times. Some instances are: on your second stroke on the 18th hole, when you go to the pro shop after stomping your opponents, even right when you are about to save your progress. In short, you have to repeat a lot of courses and events, which just becomes boring and mundane (and of course infuriating if you've just gotten a hole in one and back to back eagles.)
The second reason is that the saving system does not help prevent you from avoiding the regular freezing glitches. The first time I hit my first big freeze, I lost about five or ten hours of game play. This is because I assumed there was an auto save feature. There's not. You have to go into four sub-menus to find the save option. Very inconvenient. So, you have to save every time you complete an event, something which takes a few minutes to do and is extremely annoying.
But that's not even the bad part. Here's where it gets rough. You can save in the middle of an event or tournament. Seems convenient? It's not. You have to save and quit out of the event. Then you have to reload the event, taking away another couple minutes of your life that should be used for actual play time. Plus, it feels like cheating; I mean if you're going to have to save every four holes or so, are you really going to take that triple bogey...?
Now here's the third and truly horrifying part. The bugs are not limited to freezing. There is a second bug, and it's a whopper. THERE ARE SOME HOLES THAT ARE SO POORLY DESIGNED THAT THEY ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPLETE. That's right. If you get to that hole, you are screwed. Now, you can skip an entire event (which you have to do when you come across these incompetently designed holes), but what do you do if you have already saved mid-match (just in case it freezes and you don't want to start all over again) and now are caught in a paradox of having your player automatically loaded to a round of golf that cannot be won? Game over, man. Game over. You'll have to start all over again. As in delete your character and start from scratch. I cannot believe how many of these literally impossible holes slipped past the makers of this game. For just one example, there is one hole in which you must take your first shot from under water, with the horizon upside down. No matter what you do, you cannot hit the ball any distance or in any direction. It's absolutely terrible game-making. There is no excuse.
So, in other words, playing Tiger Woods 2008 for the PSP is a worthless crap shoot and a terrible effort by EA. If you don't save mid-match every so often, you run the risk of having to play the 18 holes over again, which can be endlessly frustrating. If you do save every so often mid-match, you run the risk of permanently locking up your character into an endless loop, and you will have to start the entire game all over again. (Not only that, but like the above reviewer wrote, there appears to be a massive glitch in the game in which you simply cannot advance any further at some particular point. I'm not there yet, but I doubt I'll have the patience to get that far in this poor excuse for a game.)
In sum: do no buy this game. Try out Tiger Woods for the DS (no glitches there) or a different console, but definitely do not buy Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08 for the PSP. (Unless you're an utter masochist.)
Description of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Take on the world in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08. For the first time ever, every portion of your game is recorded?from the first tee box in Play Now mode to your final putt in a FedExCup tournament. Post your most amazing?and unthinkable?performances on EA SPORTS GamerNet, a revolutionary interactive gaming hub that hosts user-created content online. Set the bar high by posting your top moments or take on challenges set by others to determine who truly is the world's greatest golfer. Whether you're uploading an unbeatable round or the craziest shot, take the world by storm with GamerNet and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08.Kids & Family Games
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