Career mode is the backbone of any sports game: it’s the ultimate power fantasy to create your own character and take them to the top of your favourite discipline. And there are few surprises in EA Sports PGA Tour’s main single player option, which follows the same formula as its predecessors. You can choose whether you want to start as an amateur or head straight to the PGA, and as you play you’ll be able to level up your abilities.
You can also create loadouts, customising your clubs for different situations. And you can toggle whether you want to play alongside an AI opponent, or speed up the round and focus on your own shots. The user interface and graphical presentation looks clean, and all in all it sounds like a solid if somewhat safe mode.
Unfortunately, there’ll be no option to accept an enormous pay cheque and transition to the LIV Golf league once your bank balance is looking a little light. But then, this is an officially licensed golf game from the PGA – that was never going to happen, was it?
[source youtube.com]
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Sounds about what I'd expect. I know it was a joke at the end there but I am curious if any developer/publisher would be wanting to strike a deal with LIV. Not that I'd be interested. Two PGA games are enough but nonetheless it would be interesting to see.
Looking forward to this. First stop Sawgrass! Been playing that course for over 30 years and will be a good barometer of where this lies.
@Korgon How about just one game with rather more than 7 b-list pros licensed …
@Totheteeth
I'd rather have two games going at it to encourage competition of some sort. Plus I thought the golfer selection was fine in 2K23. Not sure how EA's roster will stack up yet since they haven't really talked about it.
@themightyant I hear you, probably Pebble Beach for me for similar reasons.
This would be a great candidate for psvr2!
I love golf but there's only so much you can do with the sport. It has to be realistic and i'm not against the arcadey options so long as you can turn them off. My main concern is how many courses there are as pga 2k23 just cant be beaten for content and the 2k games ball control is just spot on so EA had better have the content to match otherwise i cant justify a purchase. As much as i want it i think i'll wait for a sale unless it's really,really good..
@Korgon i doubt that the LIV organisation will be represented in any golf game that has PGA in its title. I personally wouldnt touch it but i understand there are people out there who would want it..
@Northern_munkey
Yeah I worded that kind of weirdly looking at it now. There's no way PGA and LIV would be in the same game. I wonder if LIV has gone to any development studio with an offer is what i meant to say. Then we would possibly have at least three simulation golf games competing with each other which would be kind of insane!
(Granted EA's golf game does look like it will have some more arcadey elements to it but still!)
@Korgon
From the game’s official website:
Scottie Scheffler
Cameron Champ
Xander Schauffele
Im Sung-jae
Nelly Korda
Lexi Thompson
Jordan Spieth
Tony Finau
Hideki Matsuyama
I will get the game cos I miss their golf games but it’s really not an impressive list is it…
@Totheteeth
Ah fair enough. Definitely could stand to get a few more recognizable faces there. Maybe they will be added in updates down the road like how 2K has done it.
Or maybe all the budget went towards getting th exclusive rights to the Major events instead of the roster! 😄
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