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19 juil. 2010
Forget Online Play
So you want to play some golf on your XBox360? Then I hope you don't want to play online or access any online options from easports.com The access to any part of the servers is completely severed and the ea forums is a joke in giving support. Ultimately, if you want to play online, do NOT buy this product. You'll have to buy something more recent and hope it lasts more than one year online thanks to EA Sports' nature of screwing their customers.
So let's say that's all well and good for you. You like single player action anyway. Sadly the controls on '08 are not very forgiving. First off, the swing action is based on the joystick. That would be great, however if you're even minutely off from center of going down then up on the hit, the ball will fly off in the given direction. For someone that's played games for 20 years now, I've never had so much difficulty controlling such a simple task. On occasion I've had the success of hitting straight, and the game treats it like a one in a million hit appropriately, but the excitement wears off very quickly when you have your next hit land far to the left or right of where you wanted to go because your thumb slipped a little.
But then let's say the controls work well for you. Good, you're awesome. Then with any luck you can have a good run on the leaderboard. Given, even on easy settings the board dos incredibly well, and given if you dare play it on harder you better land eagles and birdies on every hole or you'll fall behind. The nature of balancing the AI in this game is similar to Need for Speed games: You do bad, you'll fall behind, if you do good, you'll stay ahead for a little bit, then fall way behind anyway.
Really, I can't suggest this game at all. It is fun to think about and the last title I played of TW (I believe was '03 on the XBox) was fun to unlock equipment, clothes, and challenges. It's too bad this game has such finicky controls and the feeling of success drains away so fast as you dip down the rankings. That's not even starting to get into how infuriating it is that you can't access any online play, use the Game Face feature, or even get sports news while playing like the title suggests it does.
Do yourself a favor and either go with a different title or get laughed at for buying the newest version of the same game just to enjoy online activities.