![]() Now the swing has to be stopped as close to the snap line as possible to hit the shot straight, since any deviation will cause the shot to be hooked or sliced. The bar climbs left as the power increases until the button is pressed to begin the down- swing. The shot is controlled by a bar at the bottom of the screen. Once you're happy with the direction, you can start your swing. Once you've signed in, chosen your course and selected your clubs it's off to the first tee.īefore you tee off, you must make a note of the wind's strength and direction, aiming your shot accordingly. If you don't feel confident enough to plump for a whole game, you can get a bit of practice in on the driving range or play a test round on your own. The game begins in the Proshop, where new entrants must join the PGA roster before playing a game. Into The Wild Green Yonder PGA Tour harks back to the purity of Leaderboard, concentrating on the playing techniques and fluid feel of the game rather than adding flashy extras. Elite's Tournament Golf and Gremlin's Ultimate Golf with varying degrees of success. The first effort came from US Gold in the form of Leaderboard and there have been a number of releases attempting to better this. This isn't the first golf simulation to be released on the Amiga. If, on the other hand, you would love to be able to tee off with the likes of Fuzzy Zoeller but wouldn't know which end to hold the golf bat, have no fear! Yhou are not alone! Thanks to Electronic Arts, useless club- wielders the nation over can now live out their dreams of playing the greens with PGA Tour Golf. If the idea of a nice, easy stroll across some fields, occasionally knocking a ball towards a hole is completely alien to you, then you're probably not a fan of that marvellous executive meeting arena, the golf course. That said, putting is as difficult as it deserves to be, and on those tricky American greens too!Īll in all, it's still a golf game, but EA's PGA Tour Golf would be a first choice on my list of sports sims. The pseudo-3D putting surface, which you can rotate to examine the borrow, is useful if not pretty, but I've yet to discover how you sut it off, and it can be annoying when it pops up for a pitch from just off the green. This simple trick gives the player a far better look at the shot than if it just disappeared into the distance, and does more than any other gimmick I've seen to convey the atmosphere of God's own sport. The 'camera angle' switches to a point ahead of the ball back down the fairway, and your ball screams into view to land with a thunk, a thud, or a splash. Once the ball is actually struck, it soars off into the distance and it is at this point the game boosts the atmosphere with a very useful gimmick. OK, ranting aside, the rest of the game is excellent. There are thousands of female golfers and computer users in this country, and they must be getting pretty cheesed-off by the constant stream of games which force you to tee off from the mens' tees and play a round from the point of view of a blond-haired hulk. ![]() The game is based around the USPGA Tour, and allows the player to compete against 60 of the world's top male professionals, but women golfers such as I can only be appalled that there is no women's tour option. What made me very angry, more so even than my second and third shots went in the water at the seventeenth, was the total lack of even a token female option. Even slight mistakes can result in a vicious hook or slice, which gives the game an element of club- throwing frustration just like the real thing. The traditional swing bar is used to hit the ball, but in this case, the penalty for inaccurate timing is realistic. I would have liked a few more shot options such as those in last year's Greg Norman game, but simplicity of approach pays off in the end. In play, this translates as a much more refined representation of the swing and the flight of the ball. Too many games have concentrated on gimmicks at the expense of gameplay, but EA have managed to come closer than any other to simulating actual golf. What sets this game apart from others in the field, apart from being an Electronic Arts product, is the quality of the golf action itself. PGA Tour Golf, fresh from its conquests on the PC tour, has now surfaced on the Amiga, and looks like a champion in the making. Golf is one of the world's biggest participation sports, and wouldn't you know it from the recent spate of games for hookers and slicers!
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