Clap Hanz

Review Hot Shots Tennis (PS2) - Bare Bones and Bettered By Its PSP Successor

You cannot be serious

Having taken control of the Hot Shot Golf franchise from Camelot in 1999, developer Clap Hanz proceeded to create five different instalments in the series – six, in fact, if you include the Japan exclusive Hot Shots Golf Online, which was used as a means to help flog the PS2’s Network Adapter domestically. Thus, in 2006,...

• Tue 5th Jul 2022
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS2
• Hot Shots Tennis
• Retro

Review Everybody's Golf VR - Hot Shots in a Different Dimension

Putt to the test

In the 2017 instalment of Everybody’s Golf, veteran developer Clap-Hanz – supported, as always, by Sony’s own industrious Japan Studio – attempted to reinvent the decades-old franchise, adding open world elements to the classic click-click-click arcade action of yore. Everybody’s Golf VR represents another stark change for...

• Mon 20th May 2019
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS4
• PlayStation VR
• Everybodys Golf VR

Review Everybody's Golf (PS4)

Fore play

Few franchises last as long as Everybody’s Golf, but it’s celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The arcade sports series has been a staple on every single PlayStation platform to date, and its latest edition is by far its most ambitious yet. But after a protracted production cycle, has veteran developer Clap-Hanz managed to sink...

• Wed 30th Aug 2017
• Reviews
• Sony
• PS4
• Everybodys Golf

Review Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational (PlayStation 3)

Fairway to heaven

You’d need a heart more barren than a bothersome bunker to dislike Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational (or Everybody’s Golf, as it’s known in Europe). Originally putted onto the PlayStation Vita, this PlayStation 3 port of the sugary sporting sim is every bit as sweet as its portable predecessor. Boasting a bevy of colourful...

• Mon 5th Aug 2013
• Reviews
• PS3
• PSN
• PS Move
• Sony

Review Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational (PlayStation Vita)

Nice shot!

It's hard to believe that Hot Shots Golf has been around for almost 15 years, and given how much of a staple the series has been on Sony systems in that time, it's no wonder the games have become so well-loved by PlayStation fans. While the series has evolved at a fairly consistent rate alongside the growing technology, nothing quite...

• Mon 13th Feb 2012
• Reviews

Review Everybody's Stress Buster (PlayStation Portable)

Hot Shot Shorties is a hectic, pick-up-and-play mini-game compilation hindered by the cumbersome method Sony's opted to package it

Splitting the game into four disparate XMB applications adds an additional layer of navigation to what is essentially a jump-in-jump-out package. Once you get there, the underlying gameplay is charming, addictive and...

• Sat 8th Jan 2011
• Reviews
• Retro