Rory McIlroy PGA Tour: Online Modes Review

[RaychelSnr]

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour wasn't reviewed in the greatest light earlier this week from us, but we wanted to give the online options a bit more time before writing any opinions on how they're stacking up. Not since Tiger Woods 14 have fans of the sport of Golf had an outlet to play golf online, at least on a console. The tagline for the game claims that users can hit the links, and “golf without limits”. While that tagline may be catchy, it’s not necessarily correct.

What does Rory McIlroy PGA Tour offer fans who have waited so long to hit the digital course online? Let's dive in and find out.

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[OnlookerDelay]

At this point, I'd give the Online Tournaments a thumbs-down also. I was at least expecting to see an updated, hole-by-hole leaderboard as the round progressed, but all you get is the leaderboard before you start the round and afterwards. It's not dynamic at all and I found it rather lifeless. I was sort of hoping that they would be able to do the Connected Tournaments bit they did in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, where you could see the shot telemetries of other players who were playing the round concurrently with you. I think criticisms like this will be addressed over time, but right now, this game has very little appeal to me in the online area. It doesn't do much for me offline at this point either, but that's another story that has no relevance in this topic.

[Ruffy]

Not since Tiger Woods 14 have fans of the sport of Golf had an outlet to play golf online, at least on a console.

- The Golf Club has online.

[jaygaming901]

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Where is the match play? I've only seen it in offline?

[mykull85]

Is it just me or are the pictures used to market this game not on par with what the game actually is?

I'm not saying it's a bad looking game but It's not a stand out game graphically like the pictures suggest in my opinion.

[McG]

All I can say is this (don't want to bash this game too hard even though it would be merited), I'm glad that I had EA Access so I didn't waste $60 on this. I hope that one of the Xbox 360 games ported over to One is TW14, that will be the only thing close to a decent golf game on a next-gen console.

[terrycurran62]

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Tw14 was ridiculously easy. The putting was silly as you just aimed and whacked the ball in the hole from 10 yards and it always went in.
If you could combine the graphical quality and high gameplay quality on RM with the options on TW 14 you may have the perfect golf game. It all depends what type of game you want. The online game with Rm is not good with not enough three click tournaments. Sadly most seem to play the arcade level which is roughly what tw14 was. For me it's a pointless level and provides zero challenge. It's fine to have it in there, but we need every course available on a daily basis for online tournaments. I've never managed to get on online head to head game as no-one wants to play (when I am online) the game at the hardest level.
A real pity

[JayBillups36]

Let's face it the game sucks. Customization sucks. The career sucks. Online sucks. Commentary sucks. This game blows

[Hunkerdown]

I am glad I went to EA Tiburon playtest and got this game for free. It is worth free.

[sroz39]

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I've played three H2H matches on Tour mode the other night, all three times with full foursomes, and it was fun. I wish the opponent shot was alot more visible, put the tracers back in or something, but the three matches were competitive.

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[ShivasIrons]

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Rory McIlroy online is a huge disappointment. "Golf without limits." In online H2H, the game limits one to a double bogey at most. That's right. Once an online player gets to one over par on a hole without holing out, the hole is over. The game "shot-limits" the player, giving him an automatic double bogey. Go to the next hole. You are limited to double bogey. No triple bogeys or higher allowed.

Why no XP allowed in H2H? You can only earn XP by playing career mode. No XP in live tourneys either. The game forces one to play career, which I personally have no interest in playing. In TW14 you could buy a maxed character and go online and play. This game eliminated that option. And, then we have to read from some idiotic EA developer that the "telemetry in the data shows that most players all play career." Well, the game forces one to play career if you want a maxed out character to go online to compete with.

TW14 on simulation mode was an outstanding game, even considering the glitches and defects that EA promised to fix but never did. I miss the diagonal swing and the fading red dot. Never thought I'd be saying that when I first encountered that analog fading red dot strike meter, but it was a very innovative feature. Rory McIroy is a huge disappointment. It's made me go full, head-on into The Golf Club.

Seconding the comment above about hoping Microsoft makes TW14 backwards compatible.

EA has ceded the simulation game to The Golf Club. An indicator of this was when 3-4 months ago when EA abruptly ceased posting simulation and tournament live tournies for TW14. In true EA form their was no notice. And, the devs were all completely silent when questions were asked about that on the EA forums. Who treats their customers like that?

Now, with all the negative reviews, EA devs are out again talking vaguely about how they are going to "fix" things? I'm still waiting for the promised "fix" that never occurred in TW11 when EA sold the dlc course Cog Hill that had a defect in it of not having a pin or hole on the 11th hole. All you could do was take a max shot limit score to advance to the next hole. EA didn't fix it. They just went silent and ignored their customers who had paid for this dlc. Who treats their customers like this?

[DivotMaker]

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EA has ceded the simulation game to The Golf Club.

LOL, simulation? Can't say I agree. TGC falls so short in the short game and tee to green is as easy as Tiger or RM in Arcade mode. No tempo in the swing of TGC and they refuse to resolve a bug in the putting engine that allows for the ball to not react properly off the putter head when on sidehill lies and the putt is hit perfectly straight. TGC is far easier than RM for me to play and there are NO OTHER gameplay options. They refuse to listen to their customers asking for additional gameplay challenge. HANDSWARD is developing an improved TOUR swing that is coming out soon.

Don't disagree with the rest of your post.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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LOL, simulation? Can't say I agree. TGC falls so short in the short game and tee to green is as easy as Tiger or RM in Arcade mode. No tempo in the swing of TGC and they refuse to resolve a bug in the putting engine that allows for the ball to not react properly off the putter head when on sidehill lies and the putt is hit perfectly straight. TGC is far easier than RM for me to play and there are NO OTHER gameplay options. They refuse to listen to their customers asking for additional gameplay challenge. HANDSWARD is developing an improved TOUR swing that is coming out soon.

Don't disagree with the rest of your post.

The lack of commentary online is disappointing. It's too quiet, I had to throw on some music.

And why don't you play 18 holes with ranked matches? They way they distribute wins and losses after 9 holes is very weird.

[DivotMaker]

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The lack of commentary online is disappointing. It's too quiet, I had to throw on some music.

I played an online tournament the other day and there was commentary when there wasn't during EA Access.....

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I played an online tournament the other day and there was commentary when there wasn't during EA Access.....

Maybe in tournaments it's different. In ranked and unranked it was dead quiet out there for me.