With a new emphasis on online tournaments and refined controls, the biggest name in golf returns for another season of virtual chipping, putting, and driving in
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. Gamers can hit the links on a variety of real-world courses, including the newly added Turnberry (site of the 2009 British Open), Bethpage Black (site of the 2009 U.S. Open), Oakmont, Hazeltine, and Torrey Pines. The inclusion of Bethpage Black marks the first time in franchise history that players get to tackle the notoriously difficult U.S. Open tournament, and dynamic crowds, scoreboards, and weather effects are designed to provide the game with a realistic sense of dramatic intensity.
Wii MotionPlus is fully integrated into the game, allowing for more accurate shots and realistic draw-fade possibilities, and
Wii gamers get the added bonus of a Disc Golf side-game that lets players toss a Frisbee around all 27 available courses.
Online tournaments come in three different varieties, with two of the modes challenging players to post the best possible score to online leaderboards. The "Daily" tournaments find gamers competing in single-round competitions with a 24-hour window, while the "Weekly" tournaments challenge players to post the best four-round score they can over a seven-day span. The "Play the Pros" option lets gamers golf against professionals who are competing in real-life tournaments, so players can go shot for shot with
Tiger Woods in real-time. The "Daily" and "Weekly" modes offer four separate difficulty levels to prevent experts from ruining a tournament full of novices, and
EA Sports has included a number of potential tiebreakers, such as fairway hits and greens in regulation, to help sort out the inevitable stalemates.
The
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 "Bundle" comes packaged with the
Wii MotionPlus expansion device.
~ Christopher Brown, All Game Guide
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