Links Championship Edition 2002

by Macsoft

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• ASIN: B00005U0FZ
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.8 x 1.8 inches ; 7 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 1, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,071 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #3 in Video Games > Mac Games > Sports > Golf

Product Description

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Links Championship Edition 2002 for Macintosh is the biggest upgrade in more than a decade to the Links for Macintosh golf series. It includes a course designer, new physics engine, 15 golfer personalities, and 13 championship golf courses. This edition also features a new rendering engine that creates terrain surfaces including cliffs, arches, and bunker overhangs. Trees, panoramas, and golfers are now antialiased for seamless transitions between onscreen elements. Images have a new higher resolution, and the courses come alive with flying birds.

Mac golfers can now re-create their home courses with the same tools used by the Links development team. The included Arnold Palmer Course Designer provides users with the ability to accurately re-create courses in a real-time 3-D system. Players can adjust every inch of fairway and create tunnels and arches with full control over each point on the course. A library of trees, shrubs, and other vegetation allows players to sort for the climate and season that fit their home course, or they can import their own custom trees.

In Links Championship Edition, 14 new golfer animations are captured at the highest resolution possible. New tour players and a variety of other golfers are built with lifelike, preshot motions including waggle, aiming, and preshot fidgeting. Each new golfer has a unique personality and will comment on players' games as if you were out golfing with buddies.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but will it ever actually be released?, May 14, 2002

By 

Alan Thompson "tommyalanson" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Links Championship Edition 2002 (CD-ROM)

I too played this game quite a bit at MW SF. It was the best, most realistic golf game that I've ever seen. Still waiting for it to be released. And waiting, and waiting. MWSF was in January, btw. They've been delaying the release of this game quite often. Not sure why. In the 20-30 minutes that I played it at MWSF, under OS X, it seemed quite polished and stable. Not a single crash. Can't wait!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Links CE rocks!!, August 18, 2002

By 

Larry Cohn (Tarzana, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Links Championship Edition 2002 (CD-ROM)

I was one of the main beta testers (Links Golf Community) to test and see the progression of CE, and all I can say is, this game is heads and tails above Links LS 2000. There are some small OS X issues, but rest assured, Green Dragon, the company that ported the game to the Mac, will be releasing patches to make this game work perfectly.

I also tested LS 2000, and after the game was released, Green Dragon stayed on top of updates for months after release, and made the game right. They will do the same for Links CE.

With any graphics intensive game, one must trim some of the bells and whistles often to get the performance they want on their systems. Linsk CE is no exception. Go into graphics settings, and turn OFF flag animations and background animations. If you really have the need to watch birds fly by, then maybe a walk to your local park with some binoculars may be a better alternative. If you want performance, turn these off. Also, just turn down rendering a little, and you'll be fine.

The stunning courses included with Links CE make the older courses in LS2k pale in comparison. Also, if you've played LS2K a lot, you're probably pretty tired of all those courses. With the Arnold Palmer Course Designer (APCD) included in Links CE, you can design your own or download (Links Corner) hundreds of well done, fun to play courses.

At the LGC (linksgolfcommunity.com), we play all our matches online, and Links CE has a very cool 'spectator' feature that allows non players to tag along with the players and watch the round without playing. The spectators can also chat to the players if they want. Neat feature.

Overall, don't let a few sour grapes ruin your plans to play Links CE. It's a beautiful game, it's harder than previous versions (a good thing), and it hasn't crashed on my in 2 weeks. In fact, it crashed only twice in 6 months of beta testing!

Go for it, then come buy the LGC, and join us in a free, fun group of online players involved in tourneys and ladders. See ya there!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Graphics but Clumsy to Use, February 27, 2003

By 

Wayne Hastings - See all my reviews

This review is from: Links Championship Edition 2002 (CD-ROM)

Links 2002 for Mac is OK, but not great. First, if you are an IMac user like me, you'll need to change your screen resolution to 800x600 for this product to even work. The IMac system has the right graphics card, however the program just cannot take the high quality resolution and it bombs the whole system if you don't turn down the resolution.

The second irritation of the software is you need the CDs to make it work. I'm all for protecting intellectual rights, but come on. CD Swapping? You need disk #1 to start the program and you need other disks to do other steps (like loading golf courses). In all a very clumsy way to handle what should be a great game.

Bottom line, it's graphically appealing, fun to play, but very clumsy and does not take full advantage of the IMac graphics capabilities.