Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 – Review
Have you ever wanted to play golf? Well, here is your chance (again) with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14. This is the 16th game in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series. Of cours,e each version has its share of updates. You can play with the most famous golf players and create your own golf player! And for the first time this game has all four of golf’s major events: The Masters, The United States Open, The Open Championship, and the PGA Championship.
Story
The game doesn’t really have a story. The only thing you need to do is gain experience, money, and fame. When you are playing, you need to make your own character before you can enter the career mode. In here, you can try to become a golf legend or just another candidate for the hall of shame, because the game isn’t that easy. But if you win a lot and earn prizes, you are climbing up to a real golf legend, and that’s what this game is all about. In between, you can also play online with friends or alone to gain a higher level as an online player.
Graphics
At some points, when you are playing this game, you can barely see that it’s a console game. Because when you are looking at your menu or your character, it looks like you are playing with real people. Sadly, sometimes when you see the characters, their faces may come across as ‘unnatural’. This is only a small issue that tends to knock you back to reality.
Sound
The sound of this game is actually also really good. You can hear the wind rush when you knock your ball away, and when the crowd cheers, it’s also very realistic. So when you listen carefully, you can hear every sound of what you are doing. Also, the songs you hear in the background aren’t bothersome.
Gameplay
First of all, you can do your tutorial. It’s not that difficult: You need to learn the basics and the other skills you’ll need when you feel like playing on higher difficulties. The tutorial presents you with:
- Swinging lessons
- Aiming lessons
- Control swing style lessons
- Power swing style lessons
- Draw swing style lessons
- Fade swing style lessons
- Trajectory lessons
These are the basics you will need to know. When you master the basics, there are the medium, hard, and expert modes that you can complete as well. This pretty much means you will have to learn the game without any assistance from the game itself.
When you open your menu, there are a few things you need to know before you can start playing golf:
You have my golfers, and here you can make your own golfer. You can make your golfer in almost any way you want.
Quick play is a mode for those who want to get right in the action. Here you can choose Featured Event, where you can play real featured events that are happening in the present time. You can choose Quick Tournaments. In here, you basically only play the last rounds of the career mode. After that, you can also choose the Practice Round, here you can choose a few courses that you can practice. Also, in Practice Round, you can choose the number of players. This is a fun mode if you are able to play with friends.
Career Mode is the mode where you will spend most of your time if you fancy Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14. Here you can find a lot of options for changing your golfer and his or her clothes. The main areas of clothing are pants, shoes, shirts, socks, gloves, and accessories. Of cours,e you need to unlock all of them. Customizing your equipment is a possibility as well. You can modify the clubs, grips, shafts, and balls. Those can give you bonuses or improve your skills. (except the shafts) At the beginning, you will have to win three events of a series of events. After that, you can get a PGA Tour Card. With this card, you can participate in the PGA tour and the 31 tournaments it includes. That’s about it for the Career Mode.
Legends of the Majors is a mode not for the faint-hearted. This mode is new in the Tiger Woods series. Here you can compete against the nine legends and a few other players. This mode presents you with two challenges. You can ‘win/pass’ the event if you get the same number of swings as your legendary opponent, or you can ‘legend’ the event if you need 2 fewer swings than your opponent. After a while, it becomes annoyingly hard to win.
After those, you have the Connected Tournaments, where you can play online. And you have the Country Club. For those two, however, you need an online pass. With this, you can play this game and many other features with your friends or on your own online. You can also enter a Country club, which can have up to a hundred people in it.
Conclusion
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 is a fun game, but it’s of course directed to fans of the genre or the sport. For those not being able to practice the sport in real life, this might make you a real (digital) golf addict! Sadly, there are a few bugs in the game, and at some points the screen freezes. Maybe it would be good if the game had a bit more possibilities, but after all, what you get in the game is pretty good.
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