Engaging, and more realistic than other golf simulations I have tried over the years - but mediocre graphics.

User Rating: 8 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 WII
By jc924 | Review Date:
I am a PC gamer, who bought the family a WII for Christmas because it promises (and delivers) a better group experience. As a PC gamer I have long used golf simulations, going back to the first DOS implementation of Harbor Town by Access (company later acquired by Microsoft) that still, in my mind, takes top honors as the most detailed rendering, complete with great physics, of any course I've ever seen (not including the too easy putting). I have tried many of the PC golf simulations since then, including Microsoft's, but all of them have suffered from the limitations of emulating the swing mechanics.

The WII, by contrast, has very sub-par graphics (I never feel as though I am actually on a real life course, unfortunately), but the mechanics feel right. Different people get different results when they swing the WII "club" for unclear reasons. For example, I almost never hit a hook or slice, but my very athletic son sometimes does.This is as it should be.

As for the complaint that the preview for putting makes it too easy - I just don't allow anyone to use it, and then the putting seems to be exactly as difficult as it should be. Only the iron shots that require less than 100% power are unusually difficult to pull off, as others have said.

If you are looking for something better than the golf in WII Sports, this is it.

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