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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (PS3) | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £30.78
You Save: £19.21 (38%)
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: golf-games
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930065720
ASIN: B00169L8JG
Release Date: August 29, 2008 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 EA got it just right August 29, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Year after Year, EA release a TW game and each year us gamers have to settle for just a few new courses and maybe some new courses and also maybe 1 or 2 "gimmick" features. So what's different about Tiger Woods 09 that would make the golf veteran come back or make newcomers more interested than before? First of all, Tiger Woods Coach Hank Haney is put into the mix, At the start of the game, he'll assess your attributes based on your first few shots. Then after each and every round of golf, your skills go up or down depending on how well you do. This actually works really well, it forces you to play well all the time even if you are 10 shots ahead of the pack in PGA Tour Mode. Another new feature, is the Club Tuner, now this allows the golfer to tune their clubs to their own needs and what suits them the most. Seeing as you can now add probably up to 60 yards more to your drives with this new feature, you may think it makes the game easier than before, well not exactly. Each hole now provides a different challenge. On a reachable par 4, do you go for it and risk maybe being in the rough or the bunker, or do you play it safe and make sure you have a close approach? If you chose the first option, then doing this a number of times per round could severely decrease your stats.
So, Dynamic attributes is an absolutely ingenious feature and it works extremely well. Now finally, another great feature is the Online Simultaneous Play. Now, when playing online, this is optional in Stroke play. Whilst playing you still see everybody's shots and it's basically you against everybody else. It takes much less time than before. In 08, it took 40 minutes to play a 4 way stroke play and now it only takes 10 minutes. When you are not playing simultaneously or playing a team game, you still see other people take their shots but you can no longer see what club they're hitting, how much loft they're putting or even what power they're putting on. So this is much better than before, as it doesn't allow anybody to copy anybody's shots.
Overall, I give the game a 5/5, the graphics are much better than 08, the water looks sensational. I haven't really got that much to say wrong about 09 as it really is that good, which is something I normally don't say about EA. This year though, they got it just right.
On the prow again August 29, 2008
Ok here we go again tigerWoods 09 is again trying to create the most realistic golf sim out their, i have to say i have not seen any better, but when you have the biggest name franchise its easy to stuff the competition. Ok lets start with whats new , you now have the advice of tigers real life coach hank henney, who is quite useful maybe to new comers of this game but old hands know what it takes to progress their golfer to full potential. New to the game is the way you can now customise your clubs, you can go for all out power but this gives you less control or you can set them so you hit the sweet spot evry time , i went for a power over precision set up myself, Graphically there is very little inprovement to 08 which is kind of disapointing as i wanted glorious HD to be pushed to the limit but its not,the commentators have also changed, no more D Faherty but Sam Torrance and kelly are ok,courses are pretty much a mix of fantasy and real live events, the tour is the best feature off line, but changes to online now mean you dont have to wait for others to play there shots you can simultaneously play so thats good, online is great by the way if you have an ethernet account, Tiger challenge is simple to complete and is the best way to get your stats up, anyhow overall i think the changes to learning and increasing stats is good, hank henney is tiresome after a while constantly saying the samething over and over, yes its still the best golf game but its really a disapointment in the way its not improved since 08, thats why i can only give it 4 stars.
Great game BUT what happened to the Dualshock Vibration? August 29, 2008
This is a good game, better than last year and easier to play. There are more courses and innovative new features like the club tuner.
I have just one gripe and this is why I give the game 4 stars instead of 5.
The game is supposed to be Dualshock compatible BUT the only time you get any sort of vibration is playing the "play now" part of the game. Everything else that you play no matter what you are playing (be a tournament or mini-game etc) has no vibration. I know this is a relatively minor point but you would have thought it had been checked prior to the game being released.
No doubt a patch will be available soon to download to fix the error....
Come on EA Sports - get this sorted and it really will be a 5-star game.
 Ok but more of the same really August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok there's the new features like the club-tuning, coaching & simultaneous on-line play and these are all good but other than that the game is basically the same as ever. No noticable improvement in graphics for me, game play exactly the same including the clumsy system of gauging distance ("so should I set this putt to 10 feet & add 50% overspin(?) or 20 feet & hit it 60% power or...."), the funny little chip shot option that feels like it's been imported from an entirely different golf game, the miraculous ability to control the flight of the golf ball AFTER you've hit it. Also (I could be wrong here, maybe it's just my perception) the thing that made TW08 an improvement over previous versions is that they'd made it more of a challenge to hit the ball straight (you know, like in real golf) but it seems that they've reverted to the TW07 "every-tee-shot-predictably-straight-down-the-middle-yawn" model, even on the hard levels.
I still think TW is a good game but I'd like to see them develop and experiment with the actual on-course gameplay a bit instead of putting all the innovation into gimmickey aspects like club-tuning etc. I'm not comparing like-for-like obviously but a sports-sim like Top-Spin tennis has got it spot on, gameplay is intuitive, simple but still challenging with all the subtleties of the real game. TW feels a bit clumsy by comparison.
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