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- All-New EA SPORTS GamerNet—Online interaction has been taken to the next level. Record everything from your greatest rounds to crazy, awe-inspiring shots, then post each challenge on EA SPORTS GamerNet for the world to beat.
- Put on Your Best Photo Game Face— Put yourself in the game like never before. Upload real-life photographs of yourself, friends, and family to create in-game characters that look just like the real thing. No artistic skill required!
- Confidence Is a Factor—All-new Shot Confidence tracks your performance on every hole. Analyze past performance with the Confidence Meter to identify strengths and weaknesses before every shot.
- FedEx Cup Playoff Courses—Experience the all-new FedEx Cup championship format by playing a dream round at Westchester Country Club, TPC Boston, Cog Hill, and East Lake.
- Take on the Most PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour Pros—Featuring the greatest PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour pros, including Tiger Woods, John Daly, and Vijay Singh, plus Annika Sorenstam, Natalie Gulbis, Christie Kerr, and Morgan Pressel.
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"Tiger Woods 08 for XBOX 360", Tiger Woods, hmmmm where do I start. I have owned and probably still own all the Tiger woods games ever produced, atleast for every year they were made for xbox, ps2, and xbox 360...
The game itself is amazing. Heck you can even put your own face into the game. The career modes are fantastic, the graphics are excellent, and there are an abundant amount of golf courses that I will never even be able to see in my lifetime.
The problem with the game is the Putting! A few Tiger woods ago, you could putt, it was still difficult to putt (had to line of the approximate inches, and feet), now you have to be a better putter while playing the game then you would need to be in real life while putting on the PGA Tour.
I bought Tiger Woods 08 and have played it once, because the putting is so bad it makes me not want to play the game. I am disappointed that I spent 60 dollars on the game.
If you can get past the putting aspect, the rest of the game is amazing.
If you absolutely must have the game buy it pre-owned!
"Glitch City", This game is fairly fun, but substantially no different to past versions of Tiger Woods PGA Tour -- except in that it is full of silly glitches. The worst of these is that created golfers periodically vanish from the save files for reasons that nobody has been able to explain to me. This renders the "career" part of the game essentially worthless as an ongoing concern.
"Yup! Tiger does it again!", Every year, Tiger is the game that keeps on giving. In my 22 game collection, Tiger is the one that keeps popping back into my 360 for several reasons. 1) Superb create a player, I even uploaded my pic using GamerNet and the face match was nearly uncanny. My friends comment "Wow, that really does look like your goofy self". 2) Player progression is the key ingredient. You play for hours on end because you want to improve your character by increasing his/her attributes. And not just that, but you use your earnings to buy new clubs, new clothes and accessories all which give improvements to specific attributes (Tiger hat looks awesome plus it increases my Driving and Accuracy). Without player progression, Tiger would be another golf game but Tiger has mastered the art of Player Progression and is the reason you keep coming back to this game. You can go from Scrub to Legend but it will take some serious experience. 3) Golf, oh yea let's not forget the core of the game. Using the thumb-stick to hit the ball has been the greatest thing that has happened to golf and this year's edition is no different. A clean back to forward motion gives your ball a straight hit, slight movement to the left or the right will slice or hook your ball. What's new this year is the ability to set a draw or fade on your ball prior to your swing simply by pressing the RB or LB buttons. I really like this feature as other golf games try to incorporate a "if you swing from left-back to right-front this produce a fade etc" concept. Tiger eliminates the goofy control mechanisms and allows you to pre-determine your fade or draw. You have plenty of things to worry about like hitting the ball straight, using the right club, adjusting for wind, calculating percentages, percentage of swing and putting spin on the ball. Shoo! Sound like a pro because you'll need to be one. Yes, hitting A to get a boost of power on your ball while swinging is still an option. As is putting spin on your ball in any direction while the ball is flight. Your 100 yards from the pin, wind is blowing left to right, you're slightly in the rough and there is a tree right in front of you with high branches, the green is shallow and fast, slight gradient hill facing towards you. Your Iron hits at 140, take 10% off for rough. You could hit a punch shot under the trees but you might fall short of the green. Your only option of going for it could be to fade it around the tree. You opt for that but not too much as the wind will help the fade. Your going slight up hill, so you know you need a little more oomph!. You determine that you need to hit the ball at 80 to 90 percent that means your backswing should not be fully cocked. You line up, take the swing, stop your back-swing just short of full and make contact with the ball making sure to take a full follow through, in your mind the green is fast so you place back-spin on your ball, it hits the front the green rolls fast but slows due to your back spin and crawls inches from the cup. The crowd erupts because they know your shooting for the bird on the final hole of the final round to take the lead and take home the cup. Yes this round will earn you monstrous dough to buy new equipment and clothes, a sponsorship, a trophy, respect and more attributes to highlight the selective areas you have done well on. Welcome to Tiger! and this is just the beginning. 4) Game modes, every game mode and multiplayer is available even including the odd-balls like Bingo, Bango, Bongo (first to the green, closest to the cup and lowest score). Play The Tiger Challenge where you'll face off one on one with real Pros, EA characters and game scenario challenges through a tree to reach tiger. Each event you can earn bronze, silver or gold. A trophy will grant you access to the next event in the tree. Or opt to play on the PGA tour, going through ever major event on every major course until you become a legend 5) Superb fluid graphics, so far the best of the series. Lush, rich, dynamic environmental graphics. Trees blowing in the wind, superb water reflections and ripples, grass detail, shrubs, sand and the whole nine yards. Great player animation as well with a slew of customizations that could make your head hurt. 6) Loads of
New features: 1)Draw or Fade, use RB or LB before the shot to pre-determine your fade or draw. You will notice the arch in your shot reflect the fade or draw prior to swinging. 2) Putt Preview, see the most likely path of your ball prior to taking a putt. You have the grid and the putt preview this season. Putt preview can be used once per putt. 3) Slight more realistic gameplay. Starting off as a no-name in this game is no joke, you'll take you sometime to progress before you kick the habit of shanking your bal. Don't worry though, you'll earn enough experience or attributes to improve your game. And even when you eventually do become a Pro, earning chip-ins and holes in one are more difficult than previous seasons. Earning cred from the very beginning of your create-a-player is definitely an uphill battle that may seem unfair at first because your hitting drives off the tea at the proficiency of a little girl while your matched up against real pros. You may or may not like this aspect of the game but you'll eventually play catch up and when you finally that point of out driving the pros, it'll be well worth it. But getting there, especially early on in your progression, is no cake walk. 4) Photo Face. Yes, yes! Upload your photo on GamerNet and EA will do the rest by producing a nearly uncanny depiction of your ugly mug in a beautiful three-dimensional rendition. Match that up with height, weight, facial features, body attributes and you will really like you've earned your place in the PGA. But really your just another geek with a joystick sitting on your couch. 5) Shot confidence. Every find yourself writing down on notepads on how well you played certain holes or what you would do differently if you faced the beast again. Well Shot Confidence tracks that all for you, let's you know exactly how well or poorly you played this hole in past, what your confidence level is and hints at what you should do differently.
"too sensitive control", i have been playing tiger woods for years and i was so good i could beat all the players including super tiger woods.when this game came out i couldnt even keep the ball in the fairway.thats how sensitive and how much they changed the controls of this game.i dont know why they had to change this so much.maybe its the new controllers compared to the old xbox controllers which i prefer since i have big hands.also when you go online everything is just so confusing.i play other online games and never have a problem but with this game there is so many things showing and it just looks like a big old mess.hard to make any thing out.
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"Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08", Great game with the added new FedEx courses and the alternate 3 click swing. You can still use the toggle swing but, I found starting out to be easier to use the 3 click swing, than move on to the toggle swing if you like. They have also made it somewhat more difficlt in a good way. Enjoy!!!
"Online options make this version worthwhile", Okay, first things first. The gameplay in Tiger Woods PGA Tour doesn't change all that much from year to year, and the 2008 edition is no exception. Sure, there are some new features and more golfers to choose from, but the improvements in gameplay itself might not be worth upgrading if you've already got Tiger 2007. Where this game does come through, however, is in the online options. The ability to play a match online is great, and Gamernet, which allows you to post challenges for other people to attempt and beat, is a lot of fun.
THE GOOD:
-If you're a fan of the franchise you'll enjoy the gameplay in Tiger 2008 -The inclusion of more LPGA golfers is a nice development for female players -Gameface, when/if it works (the site seems to be unstable and many people haven't been able to make it work), allows you to use a picture of yourself to customize your golfer's face! -online options are great, and the Gamernet challenges should appeal to people seeking producer points for posting difficult challenges, and those who want to earn player points by beating or "busting" those challenges.
THE BAD:
-New features are, for the most part, good, but Tiger Woods '08 is still basically the same game. Some more innovation would be nice. -Gameface doesn't work very well for a lot of people, and I've found Gamernet to be pretty buggy as well. You can only have 3 clips up at a time, and taking down your old challenges so you can post new ones can be frustrating. EA seems to offer little to no support for anything related to the online portion of the game. -The game is STILL buggy. EA released an update that fixed a bug preventing the Tiger Challenge from being completed, but the game still freezes up at times and some of the animations don't work. I've played entire rounds where my opponent didn't have a ball--he was just swinging at the ground and launching nothing into the air.
Overall, Tiger Woods 2008 is probably worth picking up if you don't own any of the recent titles. If you're thinking of upgrading from '07, however, you might want to rent this one first and see if the new stuff is really worth the price of a new game. Personally, if it weren't for the online aspect of the game I'd recommend buying '07 and saving the money, but if you like to play online this one might be worthwhile.
"I have never watched him play but I have watched myself play AS him. ", Ahhh Tiger Woods, I have never watched him play but I have watched myself play AS him. My grandfather and I started playing this game in 97 I think. The game has gotten a lot bigger and a lot better looking since then. I really like 08 but there are some things I hate. These few things are big enough to bother a lot of people. I will tell you everything I like and everything I did not.
Pros
This game a great looking. While graphics don't mean that much to me, it is still nice to have a good playing game look so great. The controls are very clean. I was worried about the putting because I didn't like 06 mainly for the putting controls. They put back the line showing you how the ball will go. Putting will take a little bit to get used to but when you do it will be very easy and you will probably like it a lot more than 07. There are a lot of different things to do in this game. I have not even gotten to do them all yet. I have been spending time playing the career mode. It is very fun and actually challenging when you first start playing with the player you make. If you liked previous Tiger woods games, you will more than likely enjoy this years as well. You may even like this game if you did not like the ones before it. This game also has a new thing called Photo Game Face. This is a really cool new thing that allows you to take a picture of your face in front and side view, then you upload the pictures to the internet. EA Sports World dot com. You then download the picture onto your Xbox 360 and put it on a golfer. After this is done you can make your golfer look however you want. You can change the body size and shape., the hair, the clothes and everything else. It makes doing well with your character that much better being you. You can make like 10 characters. You can not play with them all during the same game which is something I will talk about later in the cons. As I said I have not done everything on this game yet but being as the first thing I did was this much fun I can only guess the rest will be just as fun.
Cons
Now for the few things I did not like about the game. Again these few things bothered me enough to almost make me sell the game. First let me talk about making this game personal. Well there are a lot of things you can do to make it just the way you like it. For example you can change the swing or the stance of your golfer. The big thing I like to change is the controls. I can not, for the life of me, use the left analog stick to hit. I have been using the right stick since I can remember. Now your probably saying "well how is this a con?" The problem is that you can only change any and all of the personal things, when your online! This isn't bad at all for me because I have a wireless adapter and a wireless router in my home. The problem with this though is my grandfather has fiber optic. I have not been able to set up a connection at his house. I think I finally got it working one day but then he (who has always used the left analog stick as compared to my using the right) had to use the right stick. Since I had my character set up to use the right. Everyone that played with me at his house, had to use the control scheme I set for my own golfer. This made it hard for my grandfather and uncle to enjoy or even play the game. Don't let this miss lead you. They can make there own golfer and set up the controls which ever way they choose but there is only one way to do so. They must play with there own character. As you read before in my pros, you can set up more than one golfer. You can not play with more than one at the same time however. The only way for each person to play with there own, personal, self made character. Is for each person to have there own xbox live account. My uncle wouldn't pay for it because he doesn't own an xbox. My grandfather is retired and likes to save his and my grandmothers money for important things. So unless all the people who wish to make the game personal, and play together with you, wish to pay 50 dollars for an online account. They can not make the game the way they want. It is like you buy the game, but unless you buy xbox live your just renting it. This reminded me of the iPhone and AT&T. Apple makes you use them even though they are like the loest ranked service around. When I found this out it made me so angry. Now even if he picks his golfer from the roster that is in the game. I have to either struggle to play with a control scheme I have never been able to do, or if somehow I finally get online and can get the controls the way I like. He has to play with my control scheme. Which he can not do.
So what it all comes down to is this. Tiger woods is a great game in many important ways. I is a blast to play and seeing your character build up his stats and get better makes you feel great. The online factor is very fun and it makes you feel good winning against another person. But there are things that should be looked at before the next Woods game is released. The way I see it is. If you have already payed for xbox live. You should be able to have as many people play with you at a time as you wish. Let Microsoft not let anyone play online whom doesn't have there own xbox live account. But don't stop people from playing with there friends and family in there own home.
"GREAT GOLF GAME!!!", I waited until today to write this because yesterday EA Sports finally released a patch that fixes the freeze glitch in this game. Now that the game is playable, Tiger Woods 08 is an excellent game of golf. The addition of the 3 click shot system is cool. I never really liked the analog swing that much, it seemed too easy to me. The graphics on the 5 new FedEx courses are awesome. Unfortunately the old courses from last year look the same. The Tiger challenge is much better then last year. The only problem I have with the game is that during a tournament the AI adjusts to your score so you are never really out of it. If you have a bad round then everyone else shoots bad. All in all Tiger Woods 08 is an improvement over last years game. If you like golf then this is a must have.
"Rushed Tigerwood", This game was rushed out by EA. It has many bugs. I am a Tigerwoods golf game since it was first market but now I might have to rethink about that.
Don't buy or you will regret
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