Take on players from around the world in Live Tournaments – just one of the new features in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10.
Since 1998, the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series has been transporting PlayStation players into the smart trousers and polo shirts of the world's best golfers, on the most famous courses.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 continues that tradition, featuring more than 25 male and female golf stars and 27 real-life courses, such as St. Andrews and TPC Sawgrass, with more available from PlayStation Store, and for the first time, players can enter the U.S. Open during their PGA Tour Season.
This year's improvements take you closer to the real world of golf than ever before and build on the online advancements made with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. Live Tournaments make their debut in daily and weekly varieties, allowing you to pitch and putt against the online community. Simply select a tournament - there are 18 daily tournaments and six weekly tournaments at the time of writing, each with different courses, skill level and numbers of rounds - and hit the course. In some Live Tournaments you can play as many rounds as you like and your best score will be posted to the leaderboard; in others, you only get one chance.
For added realism, you can switch the weather settings to Live Feed and regardless of which course you are playing and when, weather conditions replicate what is happening there, at that moment. You can also see how you match up to the best in Play the Pros Tournaments, where the real life scores of top pros are updated during major events for you to compete against.
If you prefer to play alone, you can create your own golfer and embark on a PGA Tour Season. The Tiger Woods PGA Tour series is renowned for its deep character creation tool and this year's instalment is no exception. You can even insert your own face into the game using EA Sports' Photo Game Face, which uses a photograph, be it captured using the PLAYSTATION Eye Camera or submitted to easportsworld.com, to render the player's face in the game accurately.
Between tournaments in PGA Tour Season, Tiger Woods' coach, Hank Haney, provides training drills to help boost your skills, including the new Precision Putting which now resembles a regular swing in that you pull the Left Stick on the Wireless Controller back to determine power and push it forward, in as straight a line as possible, for accuracy.
In between competitions you can also try out some Tournament Challenges, which recreate tricky moments that top players have encountered in past tournaments. Beating them earns you money which can be spent on clothing, clubs and balls in the Club Shop.
If you have friends over then there are plenty of offline multiplayer options, from standard rounds of golf, to mini-games such as Target Golf, where you aim for brightly coloured targets scattered around the course. Online, you can jump into a random match quickly and easily or set up your own and tailor it to your exact preferences. Simultaneous Play cuts out the waiting time between shots, allowing all players to swing at the same time, with your opponent's shots displayed as different coloured arcs.
After more than a decade of additions and improvements to the series, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 offers great value in terms of the content on the Blu-ray Disc. With 27 courses, tonnes of game modes and an incredible array of tournament and multiplayer options, golf enthusiasts will find enough to keep them coming back for a very long time.
