Still not sure what to expect from EA Sports PGA Tour? Well, how does a wedge of uninterrupted PS5 gameplay fix you? This pretty lengthy video includes full footage of nine holes from Pebble Beach and nine holes from Sawgrass, both rendered immaculately in the Frostbite Engine. While we don’t think the visuals quite live up to that jaw-dropping first demonstration, there’s no doubt the game looks stunning in some scenes.
The gameplay is more or less what you’d expect, which isn’t a bad thing. The physics look decent – at least from the dozen or so minutes of footage that we watched – and there looks to be a lot of variety in how you can craft shots. We definitely get the feeling this release will be relatively easy to pick up and play, but that there’ll also be tons of depth for those who choose to extract it.
The question is: are you planning to pick this up? Clearly EA Sports doesn’t have a gigantic marketing budget for this one, so it’s been a little more subdued in the build-up to release. But it looks rock solid, doesn’t it? We could go for some virtual golf right about now…
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I’m looking forward to pull out my wood and start whacking away!
@DrVenture69 Excellent, EA's happy to hear that.
I’m really hoping it’s great. I’m not even into golf but I used to sink a lot of time into the Tiger Woods games they made back in the day.
Always felt they started to go downhill when they started to try to treat themselves more seriously. I miss the whacky elements!
I think the guy should've said "Welcome in" a few more times. Would have increased my enjoyment of the video.
Ea play is .79p for the month until tomorrow so I'm hoping a 10 hour trial might be available for this.
Don't forget to cancel or ea play auto renews, if you do try this.
@CVCubbington yeah apexhound is really annoying in his vids..i joined his society on pga2k23 but you have to really be at the top of your game because that guy takes no prisoners..at least you cant hear him talk..
I haven't played an EA golf game since the early days of the PS3, but I'll keep an eye on it. I enjoyed the series for a while back then. It feels weird that today's golf games seem to offer less depth and unlockables than they did 15-20 years ago, but I guess that's par for most sports games anymore. The focus isn't on the single player, offline experience, but that's all that I care about.
Wow the graphics don't look even close to what was shown. Gonna pick up 2k23 on sale for 25 bucks. Can't believe I was holding out for this
I usually have a fun time with golf games.
I’m a big fan of the Hot Shots Golf series. I think I played most of them, starting with the first on a PS1, but spent the most time on the two PSP releases and Everybody’s Golf on PS4.
Also enjoyed playing one of EA’s Tiger Woods games on PS3, playing it with a Move controller of all things. I think I bought a couple of Tiger Woods games during that console generation, but I didn’t like the one that came after the first one to support the Move. They made the Move read the swing more accurately, making the game a lot harder to play. 🙃
I played The Golf Club, but found swinging with the analog stick pretty bad, and I don’t believe they had a 3-click meter as an option. The same developers of that game went on to work with 2K. I played PGA 2K21 when it was added to PS+, but stopped playing when I got a progress-breaking bug and didn’t feel like starting over and running the risk of having it happen again. This was a year or two after launch, so I would’ve thought they had fixed most of the glitches that reviews mentioned about it, but I would’ve been wrong.😔
So I’m hoping EA can come back and compete with 2K. I still won’t be buying it at launch, because I can’t fully support games that are full-priced and riddled with microtransactions — which both publishers are famous for — so I’ll wait a while and buy it when it’s $10.😏
Most fun golf game I ever played was on my C64, a game called Mini-Putt. Still miss that game.
@Unlucky13
I'm pretty much the same, I like to start at the bottom in career mode and work my way through the ranks.
Perhaps surprisingly it's coming up on 8 years since EA last released one of these games so I'm hoping they've put that time to good use.
Seems strange that it's been so long when you think that it used to be an annual release.
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