Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

[DivotMaker]

IGN has posted the following Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 updates:

• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 First Look (360)
  
  

  "Also adding to the authenticity of the tournament atmosphere are USGA officials that will be standing at every hole and a USGA rulebook that can be pulled up and referenced, much like the pros can throughout their day."

• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Videos (Wii)
  
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Videos (360)
  
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Screenshots (Wii)

[mikemj23]

Re: New TW10 Trailer and Preview

Divot -

That was sweet!!!!!!!!!! Dynamic weather, more broadcast type presentation, bigger tourney crowds . . . now THAT'S what I'm talking about. Definitely looking good and very excited for TW10.

Hopefully the difficulty will be ramped up as well. As another poster mentioned before, I want it to be a really accomplishment to shoot 65 on Sunday.

[Dalsanto0026]

Re: New TW10 Trailer and Preview

The additions are great. I can't wait for this game!

[Steve_OS]

Wow, looks and sounds impressive.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

With that new Wii remote motion plus coming and the IGN guy saying it plays flawlessly with it in both driving and putting I'll be getting this game for the Wii. Thank god I bought a Wii for my son last year. Looks like I'll be moving it to the big TV because he doesn't really use it anymore. Online and with friends that will be killer fun.

[Ty]

The game is looking great so far.

[ocat]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

This has eased my worries a little bit, looks good. But i still see they have the ball cam and the crowd numbers, though decent, should be bigger or more tightly packed like they are actually there to watch the golf, not just stand there to make up the numbers

[pietasterp]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

The biggest news, by far (at least to me) is that they finally figured out how to eliminate what was far-and-away the worst, most idiotic, unspeakably insanely stupid mechanic in the history of sports simulations (and one which I'm completely stunned was allowed to exist for as long as it did without being punished by poor game sales): the "various length putter" putting mechanic. This method of putting totally baffled me year after year, and ever since the PS2 days of Tiger I just could not for the life of me figure out how anyone would make a golf product with a putting mechanic that poor. At any rate, they claim they finally got rid of that and there will be one putter for all putts which will react to the distance (and hopefully speed) of a right-stick stroke.

Congratulations, EA. You finally got your game to the point where "Links" on Xbox was 6 years ago. Now about that stupid "ball-cam".....

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

With that new Wii remote motion plus coming and the IGN guy saying it plays flawlessly with it in both driving and putting

The experience I had matches the one the IGN employee wrote about. It is VERY intuitive and I had never played TW for Wii as I do not own one. I am thinking about picking one up now just for this game.

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

This has eased my worries a little bit, looks good. But i still see they have the ball cam and the crowd numbers, though decent, should be bigger or more tightly packed like they are actually there to watch the golf, not just stand there to make up the numbers

Ball Cam is there mainly for one reason. The Balanced or Easy user who applies spin and boost after the shot. If you don't play the game this way, the Presentation Cams have really been improved from what I saw.

And the crowds are 3 times bigger than they were in 09 and the detail in them increased, so this is a pretty big accomplishment in less than a year's development time IMO. They were VERY noticeable in the time I played the game last month.

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

Now about that stupid "ball-cam".....

See post above...

[BLB34]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

Changes look fantastic. Hopefully the career mode is moving more towards a road-to-the-show approach (from MLB09). The old career/season mode really got boring and there was no real motivation to keep playing the same tournaments over and over. I'd still like to see the money become more meaningful... you can only buy so many pirate hats and bunny suits. Get rid of those gimmicks (how does a shirt help you hit the ball further or putt better?) and move towards a more realistic sim.

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

^^ Could not agree more.

[mikemj23]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

Changes look fantastic. Hopefully the career mode is moving more towards a road-to-the-show approach (from MLB09). The old career/season mode really got boring and there was no real motivation to keep playing the same tournaments over and over. I'd still like to see the money become more meaningful... you can only buy so many pirate hats and bunny suits. Get rid of those gimmicks (how does a shirt help you hit the ball further or putt better?) and move towards a more realistic sim.

I third that.

[UpTheIrons]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Update (IGN)

Updates have been great so far and dynamic weather is a great step forward. (Hopefully that will include variable "gusts" of wind.)

To make this game PERFECT, they'd not only have a USGA rules guy there, but they'll actually give us USGA options on ball drops. For example, a lateral water hazard (red stake) gives you several ball drop options. A regular water hazard (yellow stake) gives you more -- including being able to "pick your distance" along the line where the ball crossed and the flag.

Also would be cool to pick where you can tee the ball in the tee zone.

Finally, it would be great if the "lie" was better defined to include degree of uphill/downhill. (Sidehill is obvious, but because of graphic limitations, it's not always clear when you have a downhill lie -- which would reduce loft on your club and add distance.)

- Irons