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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £9.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 3063
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: golf-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930057183
ASIN: B000RO5KD6
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Tiger woods 08 a long time to get into but when you do it is easy December 31, 2007
I aint no whizz kid on any game to be honest. But this games takes time and when you start winning; it gets easy.
It takes around 40 minutes to do 18 holes when you start and will last about 30 when you get good.
I have been playing it non stop for about a month.
It took me ages to get my skills up. A tip would be to play tiger challenge where you play against other celebrities such as wayne rooney.
This is the easiest way to get your skills up. It took me about 3 weeks to work that out
I couldnt win anything to start but my current skill is LEGEND and about 100 points on all of the individual skills.
I just did a round and was 13 under par.
It depends what type of gamer you are, this suits me its quite relaxing and it can be quite boring takin 40 minutes a round.
I would recommend it cause it is quite relaxing no loud music no loud special FX
OH yes I have finished 60% of the game and all of the tiger challenges.
SO anyone can play this game
VERy HARD January 12, 2008
Firsty this is the first tiger woods PGA tour i have played on.
The good thing about this is the graphics are fantastic if u play through HD cable tiger woods and the other golfers look 100% like each other, plus when the fans get hit they react which is really good coss it dosent look good if a fan gets hit in head and stand still like nothing's happened. Plus the gameplay is excellent.
However when i go on play now i find it quite easy but when you are on career mode it is very difficuilt one bad shot and u end up 3 over par for that hole how are you going to win tournaments if u have a round 90 all the time and it also takes so long to build up you have got to the play the game a month or two to even get to a pro level
But overall its a very good game just the difficuilty is a bit too much for me that is why i only give it a 4 star game
 This game is a 50 yard, topped tee shot into a lake September 23, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Why is this game so hard to start off with in career mode? You are given a golfer who can drive about 240 yards on a good day. The CPU characters are able to outdrive this by 20 or 30 yards in the challenges which must be completed to improve your golfer. They also almost always hit the ball dead straight, even on the easiest mode. Every chip they hit goes to within gimme distance!!
Add to this the comentators exclaimations of 'a good golfer would make this every time... you will have some trouble' and 'he won't be happy with that one' (on a dead straight 100% power shot which inexplicably goes 80% of the advertised distance in spite of hitting from the fairway). Why do this? Do you want your customers to feel bad about themselves after playing?
Ok... so that is the game play dealt with... now onto the graphics... shocking. That is the only word to descibe them. If this were a PS2 game I would be impressed, but I would know that I was playing on a PS2. Yes it has the pretty clouds and yes, the pretty water but these things 'come out of the box' with the PS3 developer kit. The flags don't look realistic, the trees don't have leaves, the spectators drawn in the 'abstract style'. Yes a golf course is a large space to model, but no leaves on the trees? Advice: develop a few types of beautiful trees and then reuse them. Take for example the trees in oblivion - they had a massive number of trees to develop and yet they managed to make them look like trees!
Come on EA! You can do better than this!
Fun challenge but not all that it could be! February 23, 2008
My title sums this up mostly. The game itself, which is the main thing to go on, is very good indeed. Some people have complained it is too difficult or that some swing mechanics are not quite right, but this is a simple practice issue and after you sit down for a few rounds and work out what not to do and what you need to change to get differing effects then you should be better equipped for the challenge. This is a good thing, too many people want to pick this up with a one button swing to be able to hit 350yd drives straight down the middle of the fairway, but I prefer the fact that at first you suck (oh and I did) but with practice you get better and this is itself is a nice feature, that all your hard work pays off and you find yourself actually getting immense satisfaction when you birdie that hole to get a share of the lead.
Now on to my gripes....and there are only a few but they are quite major flaws in an otherwise great game. The graphics are very sloppy and just stink of a rushed through job to get yet another yearly output of an EA game with very little improvement. Sure for team games this is great as you get the latest rosters, the latest rule changes, a slight improvement on the controls...whatever. For golf there is no need to rush these things through other than for pure greed. There is no new names every year that will be appearing in a game version, there are only so many things that you can actually change about how to get someone to virtually swing a golf club, and to be honest there have been no real innovations other than the analogue stick swing feature since the early 90's golf classics like Links etc... So why the bad news?? The graphics are very PS2 and I constantly find myself looking at the textures and models in things like Resistance Fall of Man and Assassins Creed and wondering why i'm stuck looking at a golf course which has perfect cylindrical trees that shine, 2D planes of crappy looking textures pretending to be leaves, and water that looks far too much like glass. I look at other games and think they have managed perfect looking trees and leaves which move in the breeze so why not this one??? It certainly feels like they have not actually put any more effort into the next-gen games and you get the distinct feeling that they have made a generic version to port across all platforms and just added a few extra texture maps for the high-rez games.
The players themselves are quite good (although Wayne Rooney looks like he has been on a bit of a crash diet for the game) and I realise the swings must be extremely difficult to model well but that is no excuse for the lack of variability.
The game face feature is very impressive though. After taking two decent photos of myself, struggling to upload them to the EA server, then waiting what seemed like 30minutes for the processing to take place I was presented with something that looked fairly good, but after a little play in the customisation options i've been left with a very good attempt at myself in the game, to the extent that people comment that it actually looks like me. The only disappointment is that the voices are only American accents, which is a little dissappointing considering the various nationalities contained in the game itself, let lone the marketing of this around the world...just one more area of sloppy design that has convinced me to refuse to buy any more EA games until they prove they are willign to put some actual effort into the development process rather than just churn out the constant revamps of the same game year after year.....Good fun game but could have been so much better if they had tried a bit harder!
 Very lazy optimization September 28, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well what can I say, I was really looking forward to this release after both having played Tiger 07 and having seen in on a friends 360. Well it looks like the extra month that it took to come out wasnt used to optimize the performance on the PS3. Looks like a very lazy, sloppy port as everybody knows that when it comes to power that the PS3 blows the 360 out of the water so when you see this game running at 20Hz on the PS3 and 30Hz on the 360 it just shows how much of a sloppy port this is. Come on EA I didn't spend an extra 180 for a PS3 to play this second rate tripe.
If unlike me you arn't bothered or don't notice frame rates then this game does have a lot to offer, everything you could want in terms or customisable content and game play options, just a shame it feels so second rate in execution.
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