Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions

[Flightwhite24]

Finally downloaded the Demo and I love it!!! I don't fully understand how the "Coins" work in regards to getting the DLC courses or fully unlocking them? Do we not have to buy the PDLC courses anymore if we just play the "CUSSWORD" out the game??? Can all the PDLC courses be unlocked permanently this way? Thanks in advance.

[DivotMaker]

My understanding is you can "rent" the DLC courses with pin accumulation. Once you have purchased rounds with pins, you can play them in everything but CM. once you reach Course Mastery for each course, you then own that course and can play it in any game mode.

Or, you can purchase the course directly, and play in any mode from the outset which is what I plan to do since I rarely have enough time to reach course mastery on any course. Hope this helps.

[Flightwhite24]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

My understanding is you can "rent" the DLC courses with pin accumulation. Once you have purchased rounds with pins, you can play them in everything but CM. once you reach Course Mastery for each course, you then own that course and can play it in any game mode. Or, you can purchase the course directly, and play in any mode from the outset which is what I plan to do since I rarely have enough time to reach course mastery on any course. Hope this helps.

Thanks DivotMaker. I'm sure I will just purchase it as well.

Also how are some of you fairing with putting?? I keep skulling my puts for some reason but other than that I am really digging the demo especially the short game.

[DivotMaker]

I am enjoying the putting interface in Kinect....have not even picked up a controller for the demo and if the final product using Kinect is as good or better than the demo, I will likely never play TW13 with a controller....

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

I am enjoying the putting interface in Kinect....have not even picked up a controller for the demo and if the final product using Kinect is as good or better than the demo, I will likely never play TW13 with a controller....

Same here except with the Move. I still find the controller too forgiving and too arcadey with controlling distance made much simpler with the aiming marker deciding how far back you need to backswing.

Divot, is the Kinect like the Move where it is totally by touch and feel and the backswing not restricted and influenced by where you put the aiming marker? I still have this fear that they are going to put the controller restrictions on the Move swing for the full game which would ruin it. The demo has it down pat for swinging and putting. It all has a precision feel to it like the putting system of TW12.

[Lieutenant Dan]

Great posts/thoughts from Kerosene and seymour's input on chipping/putting is great.

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

My understanding is you can "rent" the DLC courses with pin accumulation. Once you have purchased rounds with pins, you can play them in everything but CM. once you reach Course Mastery for each course, you then own that course and can play it in any game mode. Or, you can purchase the course directly, and play in any mode from the outset which is what I plan to do since I rarely have enough time to reach course mastery on any course. Hope this helps.

Yeah, I'm a DLC course slut, I admit it. I'll be just buying them like I do every year. I feel I play the game enough to more than get my money's worth and I don't buy DLC for many games at all. That's what is nice about being employed and having freedom of choice LOL.

Next week for the full version, guys!

[mctrees02]

Quote: Originally Posted by Seymour Scagnetti

Gotta disagree with the chipping. I think it's so much better this year and the best part of the game because the past games really had no chipping. A little advice for the short game: For those delicate chips and putts the follow thru is more important than the backswing. If you only need to chip 20 yards to the hole then take a tiny backswing and do a full follow thru and adjust accordingly according to distance. Keep hitting mulligan and practice and after awhile you will get a feel for both putting and chipping, it just takes practice. Even watch the pros on TV and see what they do with thier swing on chips and putts because this new swing replicates it pretty well. Don't watch the animation of the golfer and just decide before hand how much you are going to move that joystick back and forth and do it without being influenced with the animation. Once you get better with it (and you will) it feels very rewarding hitting a nice little chip that almost holes out. And remember the slope of the green so it doesn't just keep roilling. You may have to hit underneath the ball so it gets some loft and stops more quickly.

and nothing about what you just said applies to how you chip a golf ball in real life.

I'm with others in that I love the full swing and your ability to control the plane of the club but the putting and chipping is maddening. As an avid golfer and a single digit handicap (just barely under 10 now! ), there is very little that is realistic about the motion and/or ball physics in the game for your short game that also applies to what you would do in real life.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by mctrees02

and nothing about what you just said applies to how you chip a golf ball in real life. I'm with others in that I love the full swing and your ability to control the plane of the club but the putting and chipping is maddening. As an avid golfer and a single digit handicap (just barely under 10 now! ), there is very little that is realistic about the motion and/or ball physics in the game for your short game that also applies to what you would do in real life.

IMO, if you utilize the shot set up feature the correct way, the chipping and pitching are very well done and certainly an improvement over previous TW console versions. Could they be improved? Heck yes....