It's also the sort of golfing strategy that keeps ball manufacturers well in the money replacing those dimpled orbs lost to swampy water hazards. The "3-click swing" served when it was all console controllers could reasonably support later, PGA Tour titles with analog-stick swing created not only the look and environment of real golf but also the feel, the sort of indefinable golfer's knack for going at a swing by gut, a talent that tees off par-three holes with perfect, long drives dropping mere inches from the pin. Indeed it's the game's audio that provides the "click" for you, it's the "3-button-mash swing."Īrguably the greatest innovation in the well-established history of the Tiger Woods franchise was the creation of the analog-stick swing. Most notable in terms of gameplay is the return of what EA calls the "3-click swing," which is merely the somewhat-antiquated method of striking the ball by tapping a controller button to fill a shot-power meter, tapping the same button to set the swing's power, then, aiming for a hash mark back near the meter's origin, tapping the same button again, setting the shot's accuracy - yes, it plays about as thrilling as it sounds. PGA Tour 08 does add - in one case, add back - several new features. Then again, golf is golf and has been for a very long time, so why should we expect any different in a golf game? To recreate this enchanting spectacle in a mere video game is no small chore.ĮA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise has admirably captured a great chunk of the real-world golfing experience in the '08 edition it carries on, neither faltering nor drastically changing. For avid golfers, their game is frustrating, infuriating, often humiliating, likely causes more chronic hypertension than tobacco and excess dietary sodium combined, but ultimately is beloved. But mostly they're playing golf every spare moment, as they are entranced by a magic you flat get or you just don't. Golfers writing about golf are writing how-to manuals and stroke guides, not elegant, navel-gazing memoirs. Golf doesn't have to its name the pantheon of literature associated especially with baseball or even American football because not only is it a professional sport, but it's also an amateur's participatory obsession.
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