Others say...

"an improvement...."
I never played TW 2006, but I do own TW 2005 and this ( TW 2007 ) is a big improvement over that. It has more courses, and some are very challenging. The team mode is a nice addition, I have not tried the online play. I have only had this for about a week, but I have put many hours into it, it is fun. I do wish it had some type of indicator to help you aim on holes that you can't see where you are going. I remember the old Links golf series had a pretty good one. TW 2005 was too easy, this version is a lot more challenging.

"Countless Hours of Fun!!"
1st I have to admit i have never played any of the other tiger woods series games and have nothing to compare it too or be dissappointed from. But it saddens that so many have not been able to enjoy such a great game.

At first when i installed and started playing i was dissappointed with the mouse swing so switched to 3 click, 3 click was also dissappointingly difficult for me, after a few hrs did i relize you can also change to two click as well, at that tym of change to two click the game was much much more enjoyable. With custom games, i play with freinds, to single player mode pga tour, and Team tour, this game is great! And when those cources got old that came with the game, i did a search for tiger woods 2007 cources and found a nice free site containing hundreds of more cources. Althoe it took a few hrs to learn to install the cources and library's it was well worth my time.

Gameplay wise i find myself playing hrs in on out to build my players Attributes and get to the Legendary Tiger woods so i may win the game.
At first the game was challinging, with no attibutes, but after weeks i found that the AI was not getting much more challenging but when playing a custom game,i can change the AI difficult level to expert "which didnt make much difference" but when i change the Golfer AI's Ability's then did i notice a respectable challenge when i was at high levels. Other wise the AI golfer will be pretty stupid.

As far as stabilty of the game, i have played on three different Pc's all running XP/XP pro.On my girlfreinds 1.1GHZ Processor 128MB Ati video I had not one problem until i intalled additional cources then all cources of the game became nearly unplayable, until i uninstalled the custom cources, then all was OK Agian. When playing on 3.2 and 3.6 Ghz Processor with a 128MB and a 512MB video, i had Not one single problem even as i installed as many as 10 additional custom cources so far, it still plays great. All graphics cards i have used had the latest drivers and appeared in the readme file as a supported video card. Here is a list of the supported graphics cards according to the readme file on the disk. O BTW,I dont think this game supports any operarting systems other than windows XP, athoe i have played on windows 2000 pro/xp/xp pro without any trouble..
Supported 3D Hardware Accelerated video cards include:
- ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500- ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600
- ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9700- ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (Laptop)- ATI Radeon 8500- ATI Radeon 9000
- ATI Radeon 9100 IGP- ATI Radeon 9200 AGP- ATI Radeon 9250
- ATI Radeon 9500- ATI Radeon 9550- ATI Radeon 9600- ATI Radeon 9700
- ATI Radeon 9800- ATI Radeon X300- ATI Radeon X600- ATI Radeon X700
- ATI Radeon X800- ATI Radeon X850- ATI Radeon x1300- ATI Radeon x1600
- ATI Radeon x1800- ATI Radeon x1900- NVIDIA GeForce 7950
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900- NVIDIA GeForce 7800- NVIDIA GeForce 7600
- NVIDIA GeForce 7300- NVIDIA GeForce 6200- NVIDIA GeForce 6600
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5950
- NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300- NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900- NVIDIA GeForce3*****
- NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200*****- NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 with AGP8X
- NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600- NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4800 SE
- S3 Unichrome (MSI)- S3 Unichrome- S3 DeltaChrome- S3 GammaChrome
- S3 ChromeS27


"Can I get a little realism? And a new caddy?"
Most of the time, you expect the physics of a golf game to be a little more forgiving than real life. It is the complete opposite in this game. I think pro golfers would do more poorly playing Tiger Woods 07 than doing the real thing.

What kind of caddy would recommend a club that hits directly into the middle of a water hazard? If you have to hit over a water hazard from the rough, you might as well hit backwards to the fairway. Why? The rough acts like velcro to your ball, and makes it like swinging through water with your club. I've golfed a time or two in real life, and with a good followthrough, I can hit a shot from the rough almost as far as from the fairway. In general, the ball doesn't roll as far as it would in real golf, even on the fairway. And the rough just kills it. I'm proud to say I downloaded this game with the intention of buying it if I liked it, because now I've saved myself the money. It's worthless. Go play real golf; you'll have more fun even if you suck at it.

"What a P.O.S."
For once in my life I actually understand now when people write `If I could give it zero stars I would.' This version of TW is not fit to be a coaster on a table. I think the people of Electronic Arts owe everyone that bought this trash an apology, as well as a refund. It's Ironic that they do not even print an e-mail address in the manual for this game to contact the customer support department. The only true way to get a hold of them is to create an account on their website. Here are my complaints about the game:

1st It doesn't work, when I mean it doesn't work, it wont boot in three of my computers, all being well above the minimum in system requirements.

2nd in the single system it does work in, you must disable everything in the startup using msconfig and reboot the system with nothing running on the system, meaning zero firewall, zero AV, nada zip zilch.

3rd you must be running current drivers on EVERYTHING, or actually I found it that through updating my single systems DirectX to version 10, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS card and as well as my Radon x1650 it finally work, when I included the 2nd step above, mind you this was only one single time. It never worked after that.

I went so far as to rebuild the one computer fresh that is did work on. I figured well, it's been about a year I'll freshen up the computer with a new install of XP on a formatted hard disk with all the patches. It never worked again after that.

I know this will more then likely fall of deft ears and EA junk creators will never see this which is a travesty, because I know that if I sold a product such as this or did not care to support it I'd be out of business.

It is in my book the biggest piece of trash someone could every buy.

PLease dont waste your MONEY or time on this product.


"Where's the improvement?"
It's pretty evident why this game crashed in price so quickly - it's no improvement over the 2004 version despite EA having 3 full years to give the series more gas.

It looks the same, plays the same, takes away the Hawaii courses and actually seems to play a bit slower even though I have a fairly robust PC - Core2 6300 + 7600GT Overclocked + 1.5GB RAM.

At $20 or less it's pretty much a disposable game, and for first time buyers you might as well take the plunge. For upgraders, you should wait, and continue to enjoy the 2004 version.