Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000

by EA

Product Features

• brand new, playstation game

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000038IA3
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 22, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,832 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation | Edition: Standard

GameSpot Review

He's been on Wheaties boxes, in Nike commercials, and he's even the star of a few of EA Sports' golf games. But even Tiger Woods himself can't save Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 from being a game so bland that even the most immobile of golf fans will rather dust off their spiked shoes than settle with this year's offering. If there's one redeeming quality resting inside Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000, it's the sheer amount of stuff packed into the game. The game is divided into two play lengths - single and tour. The tour mode lets you select your golfer, and then you're off to five courses in a huge tournament. The single game is more appropriate for gamers not willing to set aside an entire day for the tour mode, and it lets you select one of eight variations on the classic golf game, from four ball to skins. Once you select how you actually want to play, you'll get to choose from one of five different PGA pro golfers, including Tiger Woods himself. If that isn't good enough for you, you can opt to create a golfer, but you won't actually be able to customize anything other than his name and what clubs he carries. Then it's off to one of the five actual PGA courses found in the game to battle it out. The graphics in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 are pretty horrible. While a step in the right direction from last year's game, they still look as out of context as ever. The digitized golfers stand out like cardboard cutouts in front of polygonal backgrounds with flat trees and one-sided shrubbery. The swing and celebration animations are well done, but they take awhile to load and get annoying after a while. The frame rate is simply terrible while the ball is moving. The background hops toward you in an extremely choppy manner while you're watching your ball sail toward the green. The game also features a "read green" button that, when pressed, moves the background in a certain direction to let you more easily read the geography of the green. This effect looks extremely bad, and it fools innocent bystanders into thinking there has suddenly been an earthquake in the middle of your golf game. Unlike last year's game, there isn't a whole lot of sound in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000. Gone are the horrible guitar riffs and rocking music - they've been replaced by silence. If you make a decent shot, the crowd will applaud and murmur approvingly, expressing fascination with your ability to move the ball anywhere near the hole. Occasionally, your golfer will pipe up with some ridiculous bit of speech with phrases like, "Sit down! Sit!" or "I've been here before!" But either EA only recorded Woods himself, or all the golfers in the game have amazingly similar voices, as each golfer sounds exactly like the next. Just as in last year's game, you're still better off playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour with some of your own musical selections replacing the game's sound. Where Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 provides a little innovation is in the game's creative use of the PlayStation's analog control. Now, instead of the tired hit-the-bar-at-the-top-and-bottom meter that has been in almost every golf game since the dawn of time, you can opt to use a handy new method. Pull back and hold the analog control to control the power of your swing, and then push it forward, left, or right to dictate the control of the swing. This new method is a lot more conducive to controlling your golf swing, and it is a nice replacement to the old method. And for players who can't hang with the analog control, you can disable it and opt for the good old meter. Just like last year's game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 features an automatic club selection that helps players who aren't comfortable selecting clubs on their own. There's also plenty of information available to you in the various displays that overlay the actual course. It's a toss-up whether Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 is better than Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99. There have been some minor tweaks, but in the end 2000 still suffers from terrible graphics and laughable sound. Fairly accurate gameplay and an innovative new control scheme save Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 from being a complete loss, but it's in no way a game you'll find yourself wanting to play for prolonged amounts of time. Casual fans of the arcade-style golfing game should keep well away, and even those looking for an accurate simulation should be cautious around this one.--Ben Stahl--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

Customer Reviews

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60 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000, January 5, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 (Video Game)

If you've played TW 1999, and liked it, you'll probably be disappionted with the relative lack of improvements to the new version. The graphics are slightly better, however the game play is slower. TW 2000 also lacks: Tiger's aggressive swing, crowd participation, Tiger Tips and jammin' music. In addition there also appears to be a glitch in the software, when you hit a bad shot (ie. shot is hit to the left) Tiger exclaims "Hook!" which would make the shot even worse. This is just one example of the "glitches" I noticed. To summarize: TW 1999 is more exciting and does a much better job of capturing the spirit and enthusiasm that Tiger brings to the game of golf.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy It!, May 17, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 (Video Game)

The worst EA follow-up since Madden '94. This game does little to nothing on improving the '99 version. The game play is slow, putting is a joke and the crazy sounds and views are out of place. This one only allows one player Tourney play too. I enjoyed the old Genesis version that allowed you and a friend to play a 4 round tourney using all of the courses. Boooooo!

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tiger is Terrible, August 24, 2000

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Tim Klein (Canada) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2000 (Video Game)

I can't tell you what a disappointment and shock it was to play this game. I really expected more from E A Sports. The graphics are substandard - which only adds to the unrealistic, generic feeling of the game.

You do not get a feel for the course in this game. Some of the more striking flaws of the game are: The ball is bigger than the hole while on the green. Tiger's canned comments wear thin very quickly! Quick inset of hole during putting is very poorly done and again course graphics are very poor

Unless you get a very good deal, don't waste your money like I did. I enjoy E A Sports' PGA Tour for Sega Genises more than this game. If you

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