But there is something lacking in the overall polish of what you might desire from a PGA Tour game – the commentary is mediocre and career mode limited. PGA 2k23 captures the swing dynamic well and punishes bad swings (like the real thing). The course editor feature allows you to play an unlimited number of custom-made courses. The indie-ness of The Golf Club stays in the game, despite some popular licensed pros like Woods, Jon Rahm and Lydia Ko (and for some reason John Cena). At the end of last year, they even released a game with Tiger Woods on the cover, PGA Tour 2k23.
EA SPORTS PGA TOUR GOLF 2018 SERIES
A sequel was released and eventually in 2018 2k, the makers of the most popular NBA game, got involved, acquiring the publishing rights to The Golf Club series under its 2k Sports label. The indie The Golf Club game developed and published by HB Studios gained a cult following for its realistic and challenging gameplay and the game’s course editor feature, which allowed players across the world to share their course designs. But with the 2015 game released to middling reviews, EA backed away from making future golf games until this year, a curiously long eight-year gap for a once-annual release, the first EA PGA Tour game of which dated back to 1990.Ī screenshot of Augusta National from the game EA Sports PGA Tour
EA SPORTS PGA TOUR GOLF 2018 PS4
With Tiger’s exit from EA Sports games in 2013, Rory McIlroy took up the mantle in 2015 for the PS4 and Xbox One generation. EA Sports released a game with Woods on the cover every year from 1999 to 2014, the word Tiger becoming as synonymous with golf games as Tony Hawk for skateboarding, or John Madden for NFL. Woods was reportedly paid more than $6 million annually as the games sold 25 million copies and $771 million of games were sold.įor a long time it was a successful formula, following in the footsteps of other popular releases such as Fifa. Commercially and critically acclaimed across the sport game genre, and not just limited to golf fans, the Tiger Woods PGA Tour game series peaked in 20 with ratings of 88 on Metacritic. Gamers of a certain age grew up with the golden generation of golf games in the mid-2000s that capitalised on the apex of Woods’ popularity as a player. The rights to Tiger Woods for 2k and the rights to Augusta National for EA Sports. Each holds one of the main trump cards in selling a golf game. After a curiously long time without a big budget licensed golf game on the market, golf fans have now been treated to two polished and genuine rivals – PGA Tour 2k23 and EA Sports PGA Tour.
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