Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here

[Seymour Scagnetti]

The 1st thing thay should of changed for this year is the remedial swing mechanic. You can pause at the top of your swing, go make a sandwich, come back and swing forward and it makes absolutely no difference whether or not you took the swing in one continuous motion. If you did that in Links your shot would end up in the woods because you take a loss in power and accuracy if you paused with the shot stick before you pushed it forward.

[Klocker]

as much as I appreciate the upgrade in graphics, weather, better control in short game and putting, the crowd and feel of being in a tourney .... I am dropping my pre-order. i may pick this up later but it just seems as some said, been there done that.

Don't get me wrong... this game looks good and plays well. I just still don't get the same 1:1 feel in the swing as I do with Links 2004 nor do I see that angle of lies affect the ball flight as it should.

also you can get a decent idea of having the putting meter off by immediately moving it to the farthest point and then looking only at the stroke for distance... it's pretty good actually.

In a nutshell... this is the game I expected form TW 09.

[soupmama]

My recommendation: Buy Tiger Woods every other year. Divides the $ in half... doubles the 'enhancements'. Golf games are nice because you don't feel obligated to buy every year for the new rosters (e.g. madden).

That said, I really do like this year's game and didn't buy last year's... so this is my year.

Upping the difficulty will add a lot...

[pskepsilon]

I downloaded the demo on the PS3 and thought it was decent; the weather effects are nice and the putting is much improved, IMO.

That said, after seeing video of the Wii version and learning that it will be bundled with MotionPlus for 1-to-1 swing control and 9 more courses than the PS3 version, plus Disc Golf to boot, I traded in 09 and preordered 10 on the Wii in the full. From the hands-on preview on this site, it sounds like the swinging controls are accurate to a fault which will likely make the game much more difficult and certainly more kinetically interesting than the analog gameplay I've utterly mastered over the past two years.

I'm also disappointed that they're axing several courses from the next-gen version (including Sheshan, Wolf Creek, Gary Player, Riviera, Carnoustie, and Cog Hill) to make room for the new ones. The Wii version won't have that issue, and the Tour mode will be much less repetitive as a result.

[gbx34]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

The 1st thing thay should of changed for this year is the remedial swing mechanic. You can pause at the top of your swing, go make a sandwich, come back and swing forward and it makes absolutely no difference whether or not you took the swing in one continuous motion. If you did that in Links your shot would end up in the woods because you take a loss in power and accuracy if you paused with the shot stick before you pushed it forward.

It seem to get only worse by years, It just feels clunky and i have no control on how fast i swing.

I was thinking that maybe they could mapped the swing to rotating the stick? So the top of the swing would be to rotate the stick upwards and then complete. It seem like it more a golf swing the down to up motion.

[cgbandit]

After reading the blogs and looking at the new screenshots I was prety hyped about TW10. But after playing the demo it feels like nothing has changed. It all feels like last years game. The graphics arent that a great of an improvement. Yeah there are bigger crowds but whats the point when they all look the same and have a generic look about them. thats the problem with EA , they just keep making the same game with a few tweaks and changing the year on the package.

[BLB34]

Quote: Originally Posted by cgbandit

After reading the blogs and looking at the new screenshots I was prety hyped about TW10. But after playing the demo it feels like nothing has changed. It all feels like last years game. The graphics arent that a great of an improvement. Yeah there are bigger crowds but whats the point when they all look the same and have a generic look about them. thats the problem with EA , they just keep making the same game with a few tweaks and changing the year on the package.

I agree 100% with your comment about the crowds. Making the crowds bigger actually makes it worse since it's more obvious how awful they are. They look like a bunch of randomly placed robots with almost no variety in appearance and reaction. One of the worst crowds in sports gaming, IMO.

[rolltide1017]

I think people are overreacting to a demo that is locked on easy. Anyone that has been following the games progress this year should not be surprised by anything in the demo. This "I know it is on easy but, the core mechanics" talk is a little silly imo. Anyone that played last years game on Tour Pro knows that it significantly increased the difficulty and made those "core mechanics" more sensitive. They've said they have even made it more sensitive on Tour Pro this year. The only thing that us Tour Pro players can really take away from the demo is a taste of what the game looks like graphically, a taste of the new putting and see what the new tiger challenge is like. The actual gameplay will be very different on the Tour Pro difficulty. I'm not saying the game will be perfect and the best golf game ever, it probably will not. I'm just saying that you can't judge a whole lot from this demo.

The new precision putting doesn't seem 1:1 too me but, maybe it is the easy difficulty of the demo. The meter just didn't seem to move at the same speed as the golfers animation. If you move fast enough you can make your golfer's animation go all the way back and still only hit the ball 10 feet or so when it should be flying off the green. I would have to hold my putter's position and let the meter catch up to make if feel accurate. This kinda concerns me but maybe it will be better on Tour Pro.

I'm still torn between the PS3 and Wii version though. I flat out hate the graphics on the Wii and the consoles online multiplayer sucks compare to the 360 and PS3. But, if the Wii motion plus truly makes it a 1:1 swing then that makes the game so tempting. The only TW game I have played on the Wii was the very first one and I hated it because you could take a really golf swing motion without slicing or hooking the ball because you couldn't twist your hands (in a really golf swing your hand twist slightly at the top of you back swing and follow through). Can you really take a realistic golf swing with this years Wii version? What will season mode offer on the Wii and what difficulty settings does the Wii offer (anything like Tour Pro mode and club tuner)?