Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

[pk500]

Quote: Originally Posted by Beelzebot44

From what I understand, the EA Access trials are the full game.

That is correct. It's a trial of the retail game, not an early demo. Only patching can enhance.

[ricky24]

Quote: Originally Posted by murph17

Smartglass froze up on me (iOS) when I tried. I was able to remote purchase via xbox.com.

I can't find a way to just dl the trial. Is that possible?

[brandon27]

I got a full round of 18 in at Sawgrass this morning. I only played it on the arcade settings simply because I was rushing before work to get a quick round in and I didn't want to waste time playing with settings. That's tonight's mission.


As for Sawgrass. I thought it looked great. The visuals are spot on. When there's some motion and camera panning though, things tend to look a bit... grainy? Maybe that's the right word. It may be my TV also though. I'm not playing on the greatest. It's a 2 year old Samsung 5 series LED. However, it's a big improvement from last gen, and big improvement from TGC on the X1. Frame rate seems fine with me, I didn't notice any issues like I did last night while the game was still installing.


I enjoyed the round I played, even though I was rushing. It's got that same EA Golf feel, that's for sure. I missed I think only one fairway, I hooked a shot to the left and into a bunker. Chipping I was fairly close to the pin most of the time. Putting was a bit of a struggle for me to get used to. That might take a bit. In total, I shot a -12, bogey free round. Now, keep in mind, this was in straight up arcade mode, with only 3-5 mph wind setting because I was in a rush.


I'm happy with what I saw in the play now mode. Kind of sad to only see stroke play, or match play as an option. Hopefully all those original TW game modes like skins, stableford etc. all come back as content updates down the road.


Later tonight, I hope to get in another round using the tour difficulty settings, and mess around in the career mode. That's where I'll spend most of my time with the game.


One thing that concerns me, I didn't see anywhere in the menu for Stats. I really HATE that EA has gone away from personal user stat tracking in it's games. I assume inside of Career mode it will keep track of my golfers stats (can anyone confirm?), but I'd like to see a universal stat tracker, to track every single round my GT plays, offline, online, everything.

[Chairman7w]

Quote: Originally Posted by cujomatty

For the love............. my player just hit a 3 foot par putt and did the robot to celebrate. What...uhhh...I mean......ugh I don't get it. Never ever ever have I seen that watching golf on TV.

[dlwhite83]

New to this. How can you play different courses My only two options are play now and the Prolouge thing.

[Danimal]

I just don't know if I can get past the putting. Doesn't matter what reasoning you put behind it, there is no feel to putting.

You pick a spot, pick a distance and pull the stick. I actually like the rest of the game but this is really puzzling why they went away from a feel mechanic to this.

[Danimal]

Quote: Originally Posted by dlwhite83

New to this. How can you play different courses My only two options are play now and the Prolouge thing.

That is all you have until the whole thing downloads.

[mykull85]

Quote: Originally Posted by oldman

Is it legal to ask someone to compare their initial impressions of this with their impressions of The Golf Club? Not to start an argument, just an opinion. Thanks to people that checked on season mode calendar. This game sounds like nhl last year. What gives me hope though is that they might update and add stuff similar to ufc. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

I have to say I was hoping it would eclipse The Golf Club(TGC) and be better in all ways except the course creator. I would say that is not the case currently. Speaking purely on gameplay alone I would say the Golf Club feels a little better but that could just be my comfort with it. I think PGA Tour is better graphically and the presentation is sharper. They are both good games but right now TGC is more sim and PGA is more arcade(speaking from Tour Mode play).

My big knock on TGC is the game can be brutal when it comes to hitting 0-70% shots. PGA Tour feels like it just guts that whole system and tries something a little different which feels more shallow.