EA '14: Your Chance To "Take Down" A Cross-Eyed Bobby Jones, A Juiced Arnold Palmer & An Almost Anorexic Jack Nicklaus

Besides getting to play legends using swings and physiques with which we are unfamiliar, the EA press info says they allow you to "tweak" courses on this edition.

Players, fill us in. Maybe there's a way to de-Fazio Augusta and Riviera? Reesnovate Torrey South? De-Dawson the Old Course?

Here's the preview for the March release of EA Sports' Tiger Woods '14:

Comments

[Ryan]

That's not correct Geoff, they do not allow to tweak courses unfurtunately. They allow modifications to their online feature called Country Clubs

[Pepperdine]

Watching the trailer .... besides the wafer-thin Nicklaus, everybody else they showed (Jones, Palmer, Ballesteros) looked fairly decent - at least their faces. Arnie's swing looked a smidge more cutoff than Seve's ... that's about all I could tell for what they've programmed in for swing mechanics. Looks like a rehash of the "Legends" mode they had a few years back where you'd face off against a Hogan/Palmer/Player, etc. after winning your way through a match-play bracket.

Honestly, being able to "play against the Legends" would be one of the only reasons I'd buy this game, since the franchise itself hasn't gotten better enough each time to have me keep buying the individual releases. The whole thing needs a reboot ... maybe they've done that this time?

[Charlie]

One more year of Tiger Woods golf and rounds of -19 and then in mid 2014 we can all make the move to playing a more realistic game. check out PerfectGolf from PerfectParallel.com

[Ivan Morris]

Juvenile crap! I'd prefer to go for a walk or, if it is raining, read a good golf book - there are a few!

[freshfrankie]

I hope there is a cheat code for having Walter Hagen bed a Club Chairman's daughter.

[Rob]

I like how Arnie's persimmon drivers sounds like a titanium driver on impact.

In fact, it sounds like a hot-faced ERC.

[DTF]

The streak is OVER!!

[Steve]

Charlie...-19 would be an average score for many of the versions I've played. I've shoot 46 and broke 50 about 40 times on TW 2010. Totally absurd!!!! I won a 4-round tournament with a score of -85. It is the most unrealistic game ever.

[Folds Under Pressure]

I read somewhere that the game is going to feature the 1934 version of Augusta National. Could be kind of cool.

[Kevin]

Try playing on the Wii, at least there if you have the difficulty maxed and you are swinging the controller the scores come down to normal...especially at Augusta, where the greens are tricky.

Hoping this comes out for the Wii-U so I can swing the controller. That's the only version that is worth the upgrade for IMO.

[Pepperdine]

@Kevin -

They may have PS Move/360 Kinect support if you wanted to get into the "virtual swinging" if it doesn't make it onto the Wii U.

@Ivan -

I read books. Plenty of 'em. What exactly is your point? Bashing another persons form of entertainment? Golf itself (the real game) can be pretty freakin' juvenile - as can most other forms of sport/entertainment. To each their own sir ...

[Pepperdine]

@Charlie -

I'm checking out PerfectParallel now ... looks interesting so far. Thanks for the headsup - would be nice to see another golf game (a good one using everything we now know/want in a golf video game) get off the ground.

[John G]

@Pepperdine -

PerfectParallel is currently running a Kickstarter - "crowd funding" - to fund development of the game; backers will get access to regular alpha/beta releases and the opportunity to shape the game with features that players truly want, instead of having gameplay and features being dictated by corporate folks like EA.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/perfectparallel/perfectgolf?ref=live

Their course design tools look revolutionary for creating true 3D environments and will greatly simplify creation of courses by the user community - they just released a new video of these tools in action:
http://www.perfectparallel.com/courseforge-in-action/

[Richard f]

A terrible game on the PC. The rendering quality is poor and playing is too easy. Definitely aimed at non or very casual golfers which makes this strategy of historical players and courses strange. 'Links' in the early 2000s.... does anyone agree with me that this was a great golf sim?

[Charlie]

Links was far and away the best golf game and was ahead of its time. This is why i'm excited about Perfect Golf. One of the best course designers for the Links game is now heading the Perfect project.