Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06, second thoughts.
OK, having logged a few hours, I have more commentary on this game.
Annoyances:
- Whenever you finish a game in the real-time calendar, you go back to the main menu. This is a pain in the ass.
- You cannot have more than one person on a machine in online play. This is stupid.
- Memory card access is too slow, and half the time it doesn’t show anything on the screen while it is thinking. And would it be too much to ask that you REMEMBER WHAT ZARKING CARD YOU READ THE PROFILE FROM? Taking a minute and a half to wade through a bunch of “Are you sure?” prompts, and another minute to select the card is a big pain in the ass.
I’m sure I’ll find more.
The putting is both liberating and infuriating. I don’t know how “realistic” it is, but it seems that the difference of a few milliseconds between 50% and 80% (and hence dropping the shot, or going 4 miles off the green) is a touch too sensitive. Then again, I could just be a loser, I don’t know. The grid is nice. I’ve gotten to the point where on a relatively sane green I don’t need to consult the camera. Some of these greens (Red Rock Creek anyone?) you need an advanced degree in trigonometry, a roll of duct tape, and minor explosives to get the ball to do anything useful. I found myself three-putting more often than not.
I don’t know how they figure club range, but when I have to use 2/3 boost to get to the distance that it indicates, with no wind, and on level ground, something’s just not quite right. Or are we back to the millisecond issue again?
Overall, decent. If they fix the annoyances above, and manage to not add new ones, I’ll be back for 2007.
“Whoa momma, stay up.”