As a reasonable golfer (in the real world!) I wanted to highlight that the putting is, for someone who plays golf, pretty much spot on. There's a feel to golf: you instinctively know how hard to hit the putt; and Golf Club replicates that pretty perfectly. On TW I could never read a green without the aids, but on this I can putt easily as well as I do on the course. A lot of people will probably have the same problems as the reviewer, as we're used to aids in games, but I wanted to give another view on it. For me that difficulty is what makes the game so good. Same for shot shaping - you don't hit a spin button, you choose how much loft to put on your shot. I love that - but it's possibly a problem that there's no explanation within the game. Non golfers wouldn't have a clue (how would they?!) so there's definitely room for a tutorial.
Plus I totally agree it's bare bones and needs updates - for example driving 260 isn't enough - we need to be able to up our stats a bit.
So it's certainly raw, and for gamers probably 6/10 is correct - for golfers though it's superb.
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Re: Review: The Golf Club (PlayStation 4)
As a reasonable golfer (in the real world!) I wanted to highlight that the putting is, for someone who plays golf, pretty much spot on. There's a feel to golf: you instinctively know how hard to hit the putt; and Golf Club replicates that pretty perfectly. On TW I could never read a green without the aids, but on this I can putt easily as well as I do on the course. A lot of people will probably have the same problems as the reviewer, as we're used to aids in games, but I wanted to give another view on it. For me that difficulty is what makes the game so good. Same for shot shaping - you don't hit a spin button, you choose how much loft to put on your shot. I love that - but it's possibly a problem that there's no explanation within the game. Non golfers wouldn't have a clue (how would they?!) so there's definitely room for a tutorial.
Plus I totally agree it's bare bones and needs updates - for example driving 260 isn't enough - we need to be able to up our stats a bit.
So it's certainly raw, and for gamers probably 6/10 is correct - for golfers though it's superb.