Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 DVD

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 DVD

Product Description
You’re facing a long putt for par on the 17th hole with Tiger Woods clinging to a one stroke lead. You’ve been in this position before, but that doesn’t matter now. Or does it? Whether you play it safe or go for broke, Play with Confidence in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08. 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. Play with the confidence of a pro as you battle the best golfers from the PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour on the most courses ever in your quest for the coveted FedEx Cup Championship.

Product Description
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08 will be breaking new ground with two key features. EA SPORTS GamerNet is a revolutionary game play system drivenby interactive user created content. In addition, players can now use Photo Game Face to generate photo-realistic game characters. Subtle changes were added to hitting and putting for more lifelike appearance. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008 takes golf gaming to new level of realism. Experience the next generation of technology as Tiger Woods comes to life -- you'll see and feel each emotion in detail, as it's displayed onscreen in the faces and movements of the golfers. Play under pressure just like pros, and go further in your game with the enhanced career mode. Featuring 15 of the world's top players, including Tiger Woods, John Daly, Vijay Singh, Ian Poulter, Michael Campbell, and Annika Sorenstam, the most decorated golfer on the LPGA Tour New Gameface tool with deeper modifications, more apparel, equipment licenses, and specialty items Challenge up to three players in five new game modes, or play in online tournaments complete with money lists, full stat tracking, league leaders, and more Work on your game or take on a friend in Match Play, Battle Golf, 21, OneBall, and more


First let me say that this is one of the best golf games you can buy for the PC. If you don't have any other TW title and money isn't the deciding factor then this is the one to get. If you do have some of the more recent titles you may want to sit this title out. If you are looking to enter into the TW universe and money is a factor you would probably be better off picking up 06 or 07 as the last three incarnations have been very similar and previous versions can be picked up at a much cheaper price.

For those that have some of the more recent PC versions of TW... they have made slight improvements over previous versions but I'd be hard pressed to say that they are anything that warrants buying it at the current full retail price. In some ways this is a good thing. They didn't "fix" anything that wasn't broken. Oh the other hand they didn't do much to merit the full retail price of a new game either. They've mixed up the presentation of the scenarios a bit this year but it really amounts to the same scenarios of the last 2 or 3 versions of the game.

I believe it was 05 when they had the scenarios separate from playing the legends (which were arranged in a pyramid). The next version still had both but they were mixed together. Things really haven't changed since the version where they mixed them together... it's just that they update it with a new interface each year. One year it was time travel. This year it's a honeycomb.

The graphics have improved a bit but following in Maddens footsteps EA didn't take the PC version of the game to the next generation's level. My now somewhat dated PC can still run the game quite smoothly so I can only assume that they are doing this to ensure that those of us with older computers can still play the game. I guess I have somewhat mixed feelings on this. It would be nice to have next gen graphics but not at the expense of not being able to play it without massive upgrades. It seems like they could have developed it with paths for older systems to run it at reduced levels while giving those with better rigs the ability to take it to the next level.

I haven't noticed any difference in the game face character design going on a 3rd year now. I don't think they've even so much as added a new hair style or single piece of extra clothing. I haven't seen the new feature that allows you to import your face yet. I believe it is absent from the PC version. That and the absence of next generation graphics may push many to opt for getting one of the console versions of this game.

Experience points develop your attributes using the same system as '07.

Sad to say that the commentary is the exact same as the previous 3 or 4 years. "You've gotta be happy with that birdie, you've got to be happy with any birdie" "What do you see? I see a straight shot, 150 yards to the hole, and I see dead people" (yes, they've probably been doing that one since the movie came out in '99). It's pretty bad when they don't even update the commentary parts that date it to a movie that came out 8 years ago.

They've changed the on course HUD to match the game's honeycomb motif. One improvement that I did like was the honeycomb that is dedicated to telling you the current distance that your club will hit the ball. In previous versions you had to mouse over the club selection, adjust your shot, re-mouse over the club selection to see what your adjustment did, and repeat until you got it right. Now when you adjust your shot the distance is updated right on the screen. No more back and forth. This is the only feature that really made an improvement on the game for me.

The other new feature is the confidence meter. I haven't found it to be very useful. The HUD seems to be just as touchy as it has been in previous years. When using the click golf swing method you have to take extreme care to make sure you don't accidentally initiate your golf swing when doing things like changing clubs, adjusting your shot, or changing the shot type.

You also have the ability to jump right into the FedEx playoff. That didn't appeal to me too much since you play tournaments all the time in PGA mode. It didn't really add to the game.

This is a fun game for me. For those that haven't experienced TW, pick it up. For those that have you'd probably be better off waiting for a price drop. If next gen graphics are your thing, definitely go with one of the console versions.