Tiger Woods Pga Tour 07

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 for the PS3 really helps to show how far golf games have come. The motions are fluid, the characters realistic, and the gameplay is fun.

First, the gameplay. That's always what matters most in a sports game. We've been playing a lot of Wii sports games and are really impressed with being able to swing the controller like a golf club, which is very "natural". That being said, they did a great job here with what they had available.

Rather than using a "power bar" like some golf games, you simply watch the golfer on the screen, and judge by his actual swing. This means you have to have some knowledge about the real game of golf, to know how much a golfer *should* swing. However, it also means that this doesn't turn into an arcadey button-pushing exercise. You're actually paying attention to the swing and proper form.

On the other hand, once the ball goes up into the air, you can press buttons to affect its flight including once it lands. I find this a little cheap myself, as if you have a remote control and are moving the ball around. I realize that it'd be a lot to ask a player to do, to control the swing speed, angle, backspin, etc. while they are swinging but again that would be realistic. So with one hand they giveth, and with the other they taketh away.

There are the standard styles of gameplay here match play, best ball, as well as a range of fun mini-games. I really like how they handled the tutorials, allowing you to jump in and out of them as you need to. They even let you read them, watch them, or just try them, based on your individual style.

There are different levels of difficulty, so you can let your kid play in easy mode to learn the game, while the experienced golfers can tune their gameplay with a more difficult challenge.

The graphics are rather impressive for a just-after-launch title for a new console. You don't expect those releases to be able to fully utilize what the PS3 offers, but they did well here. Tiger Woods himself looks very realistic and impressive; his movements are quite smooth. You can see individual blades of grass on the greens. The water is a little odd, and the trees are a little pixelly, but I'm sure when '08 comes out they'll nail some of those smaller details.

The key thing with golf is mainly that you can see the fairway, and then read the greens. You don't really pay attention to the details on the audience's faces. I do like how they handle the greens in this game vs in other golf games. The combinations of grids, lines and colors give you a good sense of each area of the green. There are even nice details like shadows of clouds drifting by and reflections in objects.

Does anybody really listen to sound in a golf game? You get the roaring of the ocean, the chirping of birds, and the inane chatter of the commentary folks. Some of their statements made me laugh out loud. You can choose various songs if you're playing with a soundtrack.

If you're a golfer with a PS3, this is definitely the game to get. If you've got other systems, it'll depend if you like the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wii enough to offset the lower graphics on that system ... or the motion-twisting PS3 controller vs the 360.

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Real-life golfers and folks that don't play golf in real life will enjoy Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07. But if you are a golfer and you are at all familiar with the players and the 12 courses offered in this game, you will find this game most enjoyable.

The courses/players are modeled after the real things, and they are indeed designed to play just like them too. You get Pinehurst, Turnberry, Carnoustie, TPC at Sawgrass, Pebble Beach, Firestone, Glen Abbey, The Prince Course, Spyglass Hill, Riviera, Bandon Dunes & St. Andrews...or you can tell the game to choose a random 18 (or 9).

You can choose to play as some popular golfers that all look like perfectly created CGI versions of the real players [with the exception of Colin Montgomerie who looks more like a scary character out of the other game that I'm currently fascinated with, Resident Evil 4 (PS2 format)]. But the best and most fun way to play is creating your own golfer that you save; then improve your skills through the driving range, practice games and challenge matches.

Besides stroke, match and skins play, there are several other game modes to try (which, frankly, I have not done yet).

It is vital that you play in the aforementioned three modes prior to joining the PGA Tour which is, just like the real thing, a series of Thursday through Sunday four day events (you don't really have to play them on Thursday through Sunday).

Completing practice games and events rewards you with improved skills and cash to spend in the pro shop on items that also help improve your skills.

David Feherty and Gary McCord (the popular PGA TV announcers) narrate your game play during matches. And their commentary can be colorful at times (annoyingly so especially when you hit a bad shot).

I chose to work on my approach shot and putting at first as opposed to power. It has reaped big rewards. By doing that, in the Tiger Challenge mode, I'm already finishing rounds under par and kicking the butts of the likes of Vijay Singh, Retief Goosen and the one and only Tiger Woods. (Then I put down the SIXAXIS, see my actual clubs in the corner and think about the countless rounds of real golf in my future where just breaking 100 is a banner day.)

Up to 4 people can play at a time (my 5 year old crushed me yesterday; he played as Tiger; I played as me), and online play is an option (which I have not done).

After beating all of the golfers in the Tiger Challenge mode, your skill should be sharp enough to now play on the Tour in the Event Calendar mode; I'd highly recommend not joining the tour until you acquire the full potential of your skills by defeating golfers in the Tiger Challenge (and at the range).

Tiger Woods PGA Tour '07 on the PS3 can kill an hour quick if you've got one to spare. Fastest 18 I've ever played. When you're playing with more than one person, set aside a good amount of time if you go a full 18 holes.

Overall, this is a terrific game that is addictive as you are driven to improve your custom golfer's skills. It's great fun for the whole family. Add it to you cart.

Be the ball.

Update: August 28, 2007....The '08 version releases today at more than double the price of the '07 version (as of this writing). A few courses have been added to the '08 version as well as some AI enhancements. But the '07 version at half the price (before it's discontinued and out of stock) is a no-brainer.

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This is the first version of Tiger Woods I have played and for the most part I have loved playing the game; I really like the career mode and all of the equipment you can unlock by completing certain feats. The difficulty is easily adjustable so I can enjoy it and my nephews can too (without them getting frustrated.) The different golfers look, for the most part, like their true selves and the golf courses look great.

There are a few things that are really annoying though. Mainly, the crowd sometimes gets in the way of shots; if you are in the rough there are a lot of times where they just do not get out of the way and are in direct line for where you are hitting so you either have to take a route away from where you want to hit or drill it right into them (which is fun too since there are some funny animations for when you hit spectators.) I have also had problems where, for no apparent reason, the sound in the game will go out; this is the only game this has happened on and the only way to get sound back on is to quit the game and restart it (which wouldn't be so bad if you could save in the middle of a round.) And that brings up my last problem with the game; no saving in the middle of rounds.....not a game killer but it is annoying (edit: after thinking about this I can see why this is not included to prevent saves after every good hole; but it would be nice if you could save at the turn or something.)

Overall this a really good game with some minor annoyances; definitely recommended for the golf fan.

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The graphics won't blow you away but the gameplay is fun/addicting. Gameplay is basically the same as the previous versions. There are three main gamemodes for single player: PGA Tour, Train My Golfer, and Tiger Challenge. The equipment is still weak and could use an upgrade (I refuse to play with EA clubs, balls, shafts, polos, etc.). They added the FedEX Cup into the gameplay which is cool. I would still pay the $60, it's worth the money.

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I bought this game about a year or two after it was first put out, and at this point it had been replaced by newer versions, so it could be had for cheap. I didn't open it for a few months, getting bored with some of the glitzier titles I had bought for my PS3. Since opening Tiger Woods 07, though, I've consistently played it and enjoyed it. Easy to learn, tough to master, it has just the right level of difficulty and replayability for a game of its type. I don't even watch golf, let alone play it, but since playing this game I've caught a few minutes here and there on television and I can actually appreciate it. There is no need to buy a newer, more expensive copy of Tiger Woods than this, if you own a PS3.