Tiger Woods 09 (PS3)

Sep 15 2008

Electronic Arts

THE makers of sports games would usually be tearing up their sales forecast charts if the star of their title picked up a long-term injury just before launch.

But such is the power of the Tiger Woods brand and the previous success of these titles that this latest effort still has all the pulling power Electronic Arts could ever want.

And despite them pretty much sewing up the golf game market, EA certainly haven’t rested on their club bags.

In comes Tiger’s coach Hank Haney to assess your game and a club tuner to help you get the best from the tools at your disposal.

The new stats system rewards – and penalises – players when it comes to consistency, meaning that even if you’re 15 shots in front, there’s still a need to be at the top of your game.

The graphics are once again spectacular, but that’s pretty much a given for Tiger Woods games and the gameplay is challenging without being impossible.

Online play has also been tweaked with the arrival of simultaneous play shaving plenty of time off those multiplayer games.

Just like the great man’s golfing skills, there’s almost nothing to pick holes in when it comes to Tiger Woods 09. It’s got graphics, gameplay and an appeal to gamers who aren’t necessarily huge golf games.

As sport sims go, this is pretty much on the button.

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