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I broke down and bought the Deluxe version last night. I got up this morning at 5:15 to play it. I like the way it feels. I played my first Korn Ferry Tour round in pro difficulty settings and pro AI players settings. It's a good fit for me right now. I shot a 70 in the first round, with six birdies, two bogeys, and a double bogey. I'm tied for second after round one. I like the atmosphere created. The announcing was really good and well produced. Even though I'm the only player seen on the course, it somehow had an inexplicable "bigger event" than a solo round feel to it. I might actually get into the career mode at long last.

I tried creating a society and it was an epic failure. The game crashes every time I go to the logo creation screen. It failed and crashed at different points in the creation process, but after six attempts, I finally got a society created without a logo, but when I tried to create an event... it crashed right after clicking on the "Create Event" button. I'll file a bug report, but I'd guess 2K already knows about it.

Still, I'm buzzed by the gameplay that I experienced in my one round so far. This has more potential than I gave it credit for. Oh how I wish I could turn his Depth of Field setting off in the console versions.