Here's another game I was looking forward to but wound up incredibly disappointed.
User Rating: 5.5 | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 WII
I'm not a huge sports buff but for years and years I have enjoyed every sort of golf video game. I guess it's just a peaceful way to play a video game, in most cases, and is sometimes a nice break away from the heavy action of many other titles. With Tiger Woods I was really looking forward to a great golf game. After seeing how great WiiSports was in golf I couldn't wait to have a full array of courses to play. Sadly, I was disappointed by the most important thing for a golf game on the Wii: controls. This game forces you, if you want to do anything in the game, to swing a golf club in a very unnatural way if you even want to do a good job at all. Unfortunately, this ruins the entire purpose of the game removing what fun I could have had with it. Some of the time the computer player doesn't follow through like you do. Some of the time the player just hacks the ball missing your moves completely. Some of the time the ball hooks or slices even though you've swung a near perfect real swing. MOST of the time you wind up frustrated that nothing related to what you were trying to do is what happened on the screen. It's so odd as I have played live-action golf games like this before and they have all been much better than this. From a company like EA who is known for their sports titles this was a really sad attempt at what could have been an amazing game. I have been able to only get through playing one full round of this game as every other time I get too frustrated at the control scheme to keep playing. Golf used to be a fun game. Ironically, the real life sport is actually easier than this one. Oh, and we won't even talk about the old-school graphics that lack every type of detail. Every hole you play makes you feel like you're just a player standing in the middle of a field because it is just so empty of good and clean graphics.
