New shot types (like a flop shot or chip shot) are unlocked as you take lessons, which are in turn unlocked as earn skill points and sink them into different skills like power and putting. Unlike the console versions of Tiger, there's a lot more judgment involved in lining up shots: there's no yardage readout when you look at a shot target, nor are there any caddy tips to help you when putting. TrueSwing is back, allowing you to simulate your golf swing by pulling the mouse back and pushing it forward. Rivals Mode then continues through different eras of golf history, eventually catching up to the present.Īnd people say golfers dress funny today.Īs far as the actual golf in Tiger Woods 06, it doesn't seem to have changed much.
There's a bulletin board with multiple challenges on it, allowing you to pick and choose which events you want to tackle first. Your character even gets a new outfit for the era, and the interface also changes to reflect the time period. You don't get to take back Nike balls and your Big Bertha driver you're given more appropriate equipment, and you won't be smacking 325-yard drives off the tee. His first stop is 150 years back to the mid-1800s, and you, being the hungry challenger, follow Tiger back to take on the same opponents.Īs goofy as this might sound, what we've played of Rivals mode suggests it should be a nice change of pace to anyone who's mastered Tiger over the years. At first, the concept suggests that the developers might be grasping a little hard: upset at having lost his #1 ranking, Tiger sets out to prove he's the best by - we're not kidding - going back in time and beating, apparently, anyone who's ever played the game of golf.
Game Face returns, which is practically a mini-game in itself.Īs is the case every year, one all-new mode has been created for the latest Tiger, and this year's addition is Rivals Mode. Clothes range from bland polo shirts and slacks to cowboy hats, football jeresys and plaid knickers, making the golfer customization a mini-game in itself. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of options to play with - there are five different sliders just to tweak the shape of your head. Although some tweaks have been made to the feature, the core idea is the same: you build your own golfer from scratch, customizing everything from hair color to body shape to clothing to tattoos. To start, we created a new golfer using the Game Face feature, which returns in Tiger 06. We've been playing through a preview build of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06, which gave us a chance to experiment with some of this year's new features. For several years, the collaboration between EA and former PGA Championship Golf developer Headgate Studios has spawned a number of award-winning golf games, offering more of a sim-like spin than its equally entertaining console cousins. FEW PC GAME FRANCHISES can claim a winning streak like the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series.
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