It even sounds great, with brilliant crowd effects and a mostly convincing commentary from Frank Nobilo and Rich Lerner of the NBCSports Golf Channel. In short, it looks great and it plays great too. What’s more, you can customise things so that you can have the more authentic stroke-making of the full analogue swing but the zoom-in and targeting aids of the easier control modes – a pretty good balance, all things told. The first will suit beginners and casual players and the second old-school players, while the last offers a more satisfying challenge, but all three systems work well and allow for different styles of play. PGA Tour has three control modes, ranging from a simplified analogue swing to the classic three-click method and a more sophisticated analogue swing with shot-shaping, draw and fade. The core game mechanics are extremely solid too. This might be no next-gen knockout, but it’s still comfortably the best-looking golf game we’ve seen. ![]() What are they up to? Are they planning to attack? Even the lighting and shadow effects add to the overall atmosphere. There are also some beautiful little touches, like flies circling the green or the little muddy crater left by a fast-dropping ball, even if we could do without the slightly weird-looking critters ambling up and down the course. Golfer animation is more fluid and convincing, with some great animations that take you through the whole gamut of emotions that the noble sport inspires, from joy and exhilaration through to frustration and raw misery. The vegetation is lusher and more lifelike and the scenery more coherent and believable. The graphics have their weaknesses, including texture pop-up, some peculiar artefacts and the odd, weird shimmering effect, but this is still a reasonable leap forwards from the last Tiger Woods. ![]() ![]() Let’s talk about the stuff where Rory lands it on the fairway, not the scrub.
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