![]() There are 28 courses included in the game, and although this is billed as ‘the entire PGA tour', be warned that the PGA tour changes from year to year so your favorite course from past years may not be included this time around. Advanced mode is just like real golf: as real as it can get short of playing on an actual course. No Putt Preview, no waggling the Wii Remote to add spin, no video game silliness of any kind. This is the level most players will want to play on, at least at first, even if they are very experienced at playing Tiger Woods on the Wii, because the Advanced level attempts to make the game play like a real game of golf. The intermediate skill level plays a lot like ‘normal’ Tiger Woods is played on the other consoles, but of course with the motion controls. It still requires you to swing well to produce this result, but newcomers to golf or golfers inexperienced with the Wii Remote will appreciate this hand-holding to help them work on their aim. The game features three skill levels: the easiest is designed for the extremely inexperienced, in that it will actually show you where your shot will go before you even swing. The game features a tutorial that you should probably run through before playing, especially if you are new to Tiger Woods or golf in general, although it’s nothing that you couldn’t figure out pretty quickly during your first game. Swinging requires only that you point downward with the Remote and press and hold the button to avoid any unintentional swings from waving the Remote around. Aiming is accomplished either by pressing the button and moving your target around the course from an above view, or by simply pressing the arrows on the D-pad. The controls are intuitive and onscreen reminders show you what button to press for less commonly used options. It’s not as bad as all of the tuning and tweaking found in the other console versions, but it still slightly detracts from the feeling that you are actually stepping up to the tee to play an actual round of golf, but the motion controls are so good that you will forgive the absence of an actual golf ball to hit. For all of its improvements in accuracy, there is still no way to emulate the swinging of a full-size golf club, or the actual striking of a ball at a particular angle by the club face: those options must still be chosen with onscreen selections. With all that said, the system is not perfect. Of course, the downside to this that you can no longer blame the game when you miss a critical shot: the motion tracking is so sensitive and so accurate that there's no doubt any adverse results are entirely the result of a bad stroke, and not bad game mechanics. The game is so ‘realistic’ that it can finally teach you more about golf than just how the scoring works you can actually improve your real life swing by practising here. This is exciting because it means that the game is finally playable in a form very similar to the sport it's based on. That's all about to change though, with the Wii version of Tiger Woods 10 measuring and translating every detail of your golf swing into your onscreen play. In earlier releases the Wii Remote provided no more input than measuring the speed of your swing, with aspects such as the angle of your swing, the twisting of your hands, and yes, even the twisting of your shoulders completely ignored by the lovely white controller. Thankfully, Wii owners get a much better deal: this year's Wii entry is the first attempt on any machine to try to emulate the actual experience of playing golf, with the addition of the Wii MotionPlus attachment to the Wii Remote.įor all its good points, the Wii Remote alone has never been sufficient to provide a ‘realistic’ golfing experience. ![]() Even with all that time to improve the game's mechanics, on non-Wii consoles it still plays like you’re piloting a submarine. The Tiger Woods games are the current ‘serious’ golf games for PCs and consoles, but let's be honest: how seriously can you take a game of golf that you play with a keyboard or analogue sticks? Tiger Woods 10, (the 12th game in the Tiger Woods series, or the 20th game in the PGA Tour Series, for those keeping count), is the fourth game in the series on the Wii. ![]()
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