The gameplay is getting pretty close to perfect for the Tiger Woods series. I love the way you can calibrate the stick to your particular swing, last year's edition was borderline unplayable for me because I tend to go back right to front left on my "swing." Tweaking the various clubs is very cool too--it's nice to see EA working on improvements that are useful refinements of the core gameplay instead of gimmicky add-ons. I'm still not sure if I like their putting system or not. It's pretty much the same as years past, and I like the way you have to read the green, but it seems too easy to make ridiculously long putts, and likewise, can be a bit too hard for shorter putts at times. I can't think of how they could do it better, but it and the chipping system feel like the weakest link in terms of gameplay.
I haven't messed around with online play just yet, so I don't have anything useful to contribute on that particular dimension of the game.
The photo game face thing can't be accessed from a Macintosh right now. I uploaded my photos last year from my Mac and the whole thing worked fine, so I'm not sure why they decided to screw with it and break the site's compatibility by using code that isn't standardized. They say that Mac compatibility is coming, but there's no information that I could find beyond that. I'm surprised that a company as large as EA doesn't have the resources to make sites/web apps using the generally accepted standards of the web--perhaps they're just incompetent.
I got Tiger Woods 09 the other day, and I have to say its the best golf game I have ever played, and also one of the best sports games ever. I dont golf very frequently, usually a couple times a year, and Im not horrible... Read Full Review
This is easily the best Tiger Woods game to date. Everything that was wrong, or not perfected from 2008 has been fixed or at least addressed. The graphics, as always, are great. Animations are smooth and realistic, bu... Read Full Review
