Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

[jbd345]

This is what you get when a certain amount of people will complain when it's too hard. I was afraid of this.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by Beelzebot44

The game looks great, but honestly as an owner of TGC I was pretty much only hyped about the added immersion of creating myself (gameface on previous versions was amazing) and going through a career. But the player creator is so laughably bad it completely removes that. You get 11 faces, most of which don't even look like a real person, I think six hairstyles, and some different skin tones. That's it. Not even facial hair. At least 99% of people who try won't be able to make anyone that even passably looks like them. It's pathetic.

Agree 100%...

However, facial hair is there, you have to go through all of the options to find it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Beelzebot44

And the career mode is very underwhelming so far. No calendar, no events... basically it's just a series of rounds. I think I'm skipping this until/unless major updates are made. It doesn't offer much that TGC doesn't at this point outside looks.

No, I thought the same thing. When you first create your golfer and before going into the first event on the Web.com TOUR, go to Career History and change the Quick Rounds to Full 18 hole rounds. I wish I had known this from the start as I played less than a third of all rounds until I figured this out,. They should have pointed this out from the get go.....

There is no "calendar" per se and this I agree should not be missing either.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by brandon27

I got a full round of 18 in at Sawgrass this morning. I only played it on the arcade settings simply because I was rushing before work to get a quick round in and I didn't want to waste time playing with settings. That's tonight's mission. As for Sawgrass. I thought it looked great. The visuals are spot on. When there's some motion and camera panning though, things tend to look a bit... grainy? Maybe that's the right word. It may be my TV also though. I'm not playing on the greatest. It's a 2 year old Samsung 5 series LED. However, it's a big improvement from last gen, and big improvement from TGC on the X1. Frame rate seems fine with me, I didn't notice any issues like I did last night while the game was still installing. I enjoyed the round I played, even though I was rushing. It's got that same EA Golf feel, that's for sure. I missed I think only one fairway, I hooked a shot to the left and into a bunker. Chipping I was fairly close to the pin most of the time. Putting was a bit of a struggle for me to get used to. That might take a bit. In total, I shot a -12, bogey free round. Now, keep in mind, this was in straight up arcade mode, with only 3-5 mph wind setting because I was in a rush. I'm happy with what I saw in the play now mode. Kind of sad to only see stroke play, or match play as an option. Hopefully all those original TW game modes like skins, stableford etc. all come back as content updates down the road. Later tonight, I hope to get in another round using the tour difficulty settings, and mess around in the career mode. That's where I'll spend most of my time with the game. One thing that concerns me, I didn't see anywhere in the menu for Stats. I really HATE that EA has gone away from personal user stat tracking in it's games. I assume inside of Career mode it will keep track of my golfers stats (can anyone confirm?), but I'd like to see a universal stat tracker, to track every single round my GT plays, offline, online, everything.

The "graininess" to me is the fact that the fairways and greens actually have grass textures that are 3D instead of being green carpets like in previous version. Look at the grass around your golfer in the lowest camera to the ground and you will see what I mean, I think.....

[ExtremeGamer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium

Love the courses. Played Paracel Storm on a whim

Ah hmmm, a "whim"?

[charter04]

I'm not a regular player of golf games. I played the demo of TW13 I think. I played this last night on Access and it seemed easy on tour difficulty.

I figured I would be terrible since I'm not at all and experienced player but, I was at even par after 18 on TPC sawgrass.

I used Rory. Not sure if that matters.

The game looks great. It was fun to play.






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[Pappy Knuckles]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pappy Knuckles

Is only 8 official courses confirmed?

Can anyone speak on this?

[Chairman7w]

Early impressions for me are that it's the same dang game they've been putting out for years. With few exceptions, it's the same mechanics, same flow, same angles, same power-swing slo-mo, same cut scenes, same camera, same courses, and somehow, somehow, they even managed to take a step back in some areas (golfer creation, putting, number of golfers, number of courses). Just baffling.

The graphics look nice, it plays faster, and the announcing is good (although glitchy, I've noticed a few times), I'll give it that.

I said this in another thread, I don't know much about programming, but to say this is written from scratch seems awfully thin to me. It's JUST like every other Tiger game.

[ExtremeGamer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pappy Knuckles

Can anyone speak on this?

With preorder there's 9, then 5 fantasy courses I believe.