Jack Nicklaus 6 Golden Bear Challenge (Jewel Case)

by ACTIVISION

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004WHXM
• Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,457 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #34 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Golf
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Sequel to the best-selling Jack Nicklaus golf series, Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Bear Challenge garnered a PC Gamer Editors’ Choice award (July 1999 issue) and a five-star rating from Computer Gaming World (August 1999 issue). With state-of-the-art physics, design innovations like Season Mode, the addition of RPG elements, Ready Golf, and an innovative green reading mechanic, this title is the ultimate golf simulation. The graphics are the best of the genre, and the interface is gorgeous, polished, and easy to use. From a technical standpoint, the game is superbly engineered. The existing franchise code-base was completely rewritten in C++. The terrain renderer was sped up by at least 2 times and a custom software polygonal renderer was added. The code is architected to make use of 3D hardware acceleration if it is present.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jack Nicklaus 6: The best to date, December 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Jack Nicklaus 6 Golden Bear Challenge (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

This game is fantastic. 6 courses come loaded with the game, and a course architect program to allow you to design your own courses. The architect program is pretty extensive, allowing for the customization of everything from sounds (dozens of birds, waves crashing along the shoreline, frogs etc.) to green types, backgrounds, skies, fairways, tree types, flowers, rocks and so forth.

This is nice but where Nicklaus 6 really shines is the ability to download other courses designed by game enthusiasts just like yourself. There are over 400 available ranging from "okay" to "I can't believe how good this looks!" There are some real magicians out there who do this stuff and the results are often times better than the ones that come loaded with the game.

The shots are fair and, for the most part, accurate. You can shoot draws, fades, lobshots, bump and runs, and even shape your shot with different trajectories. Sloping greens will kick the ball downhill. Lob shots will spin back. It's pretty good. Your characters can have built in shot styles. Want to make your character like you and slice it off the tee? You can do that. Want to make your character like you want to play, straight and long? You can do that too. Masterful around the greens? Yep! The thing is only have a limited number of skill points to assign.

Statistics are good, but not great and they are a little troublesome to find, but options are there.

The game is good, but not perfect. Putting is very difficult. I find it easier to miss the green, put it close with a wedge and one-put rather than to be on the green from any distance beyond 15 feet. The slope reading isn't too bad, once you learn how it works but calculating distances is to difficult. I'm told there are patch fixes for this, but the stock putting right out of the box is tricky at best. Another complaint is outside of the golden-bear himself, there are no other pros available as characters. You have about 8-10 different character types to choose from. The charters range in age, race, and sex so you're sure to find someone you can identify with, but the choices are slim.

Overall, this game is fantastic, and arguably the best computer golf game to date. What separates this one from the competition is you need no expansion packs to play new courses. Want to play Augusta? No problem it's online and free. Pinehurst, Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, and hundreds more are all online, all free. Love golf and interested? Don't hesitate, buy the game!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jack Nicklaus 6 vs. Jack Nicklaus 4, November 13, 2000

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"cwnet" (MO. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jack Nicklaus 6 Golden Bear Challenge (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

Jn6 offers players a mulititude of differences including enhanced 3d video graphics, easier game setup and realistic gameplay. A picture in picture view is available along with several views to pick from inside the PIP. The online aspects, while slower in total game time from start to finish, is a great experience given the graphics and realism of the game. Options such as animate water, very high detail, and the colorful layout is something lacking in jn4 and makes this one 10 steps up and a must buy.