Just a quick review of a game I played years ago-- I'm playing again. Probably the best online golf game.
User Rating: 8.5 | Shot Online PC
Shot Online is more free-to-play, odd-world virtual crack from Asia. In its guts it's very much like the old arcade Nintendo golf game, like Golden Tee, as well as like the old Links golf game for PC. There's a three-click swing bar, and you must manage your shots as regards distance, weather, wind, slope, ball lie, etc. Matched to excellent core mechanics (the gameplay is truly challenging, which is probably why it is so addictive and why people still play it almost four years after release) is an anime-styled MMORPG: you gain xp, level up stats, grind for equipment and money after having chosen a 'class' from a list of playable characters with vaguely heroic airs and cartoonishly colorful hair, archetypal avatars resembling Final Fantasy protagonists forced to attend boarding school. There is a virtual golfing "city" where players congregate and the vendor and quest NPCs reside. You can join a guild, there's an auction house-- like I said, it's an MMORPG. Anyway, there are a dozen or so courses, and you can play in up to a foursome, in different game modes; these modes include stoke, skins games, match play (and some other, less popular ones). There is a cash shop, but you don't really need to spend real money to play. If you enjoy golf games (or just golf, I suppose), and you don't allow yourself to get turned off by the third-rate manga visuals, there is quite a good game to be found in Shot Online.
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