![]() This method of control works fine when you’ve got analogue controls like a mouse or joystick on a computer or on a PlayStation/Xbox controller, but it doesn’t on a digital pad like the N-Gage’s. You push down on the pad to start with, causing your player to make his backswing and, when the club gets to the top of the swing, you push forward. Instead of providing a method whereby you make your shots by moving a marker along a power metre, before attempting to stop it accurately at the end to signify a cleanly-hit shot, you have to swing with the N-Gage’s joypad. The low-resolution graphics make precise shot-making more of a gamble than it should be and you’ll frequently find yourself sailing shots into trees that, just a few moments earlier, didn’t look that tall. It doesn’t, however, help alleviate the game’s clumsy nature. Despite this, though, it manages to provide a decent sense of the course and enables you to plan your approach shots with a level of strategy that would otherwise be unavailable. The 3D viewpoint is only used when taking your shot whilst the ball is in the air, the game switches to an overhead map view, showing the path your ball is taking. While Tiger’s animation as you play him is good, the landscapes through which you’ll eagle, birdie and par are lacking in detail and could, pretty much, be from any course anywhere in the world. ![]() The visuals, which in a golf game, need to work hard, are limited. Initially it’s not much to look at, granted. So it’s no surprise at all that he’s the perfect poster boy for golfing games and now his star is shining on the N-Gage with this, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004. He’s got the million-dollar endorsements, more cool than your freezer and a physique that Colin Montgomerie can only dream of. But probably not so big as the fact as you can play as the one golfer it’s alright to like, Tiger Woods. No doubt the fact that you don’t need to spend hundreds of pounds on the kit is a large contributing factor. There are even fans and players of the sport in the Pocket Gamer office and, perhaps more surprisingly, they’re not afraid to admit it, either.īut playing golf in a computer game is somehow different, managing to avoid the social stigma attached to the real thing. ![]() But for all that, it’s still an enormously popular sport and pastime. And there’s the insistence on adhering to a set of rules so old that they make your grandmother appear forward-thinking. There’s the seemingly pointless aim of smacking a small white ball miles around a piece of countryside. ![]()
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