Customer Reviews

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Most of the games for X-box PS2 etc are designed for YOUNG people who have great hand/ eye coordination and lightning fast reflexes. This is fine - but I am 56 years old and cannot play most of these games (at least not very well). But THIS ONE I am not only playing but - I'm doing very well at it. It is loads of fun. I don't even play Real Golf - but I still enjoy this game a lot. It is expensive but worth it. I don't compete online in ANY Games as these young folks would kill me!

Having bought and played the EA Sports Tiger Woods series since it came out I have a pretty good idea of what is to be expected. I loved TW 2004 and played that game until the disc starting smoking and caught on fire. For all the people who want to buy a golf game and don't have TW 2004 you should buy this game especially since you can buy 2005 for thirty bucks now. If you have 2004 and also have Xbox live you should buy 2005 since the online play is great. If you don't have Xbox live I will break down what I like and dislike about the game.

What I like about TW 2005 -
First of all the basic controls are the same and gameplay is almost exactly the same - they did add Tiger vision but I will get back to that later. The graphics are similar and the courses are similar. There are more golfers to choose from - and I am very excited that Natalie Gulbis is added again this year because she is beautiful and she adds alot to the LPGA tour. There are better clothes this year, and more sponsorships
are available in your PGA tour season. Also they added Tiger-proofing, I haven't really gotten really in depth into that so I can't say to much about it but it looks pretty cool.

What I dislike about TW 2005 -
There is basically one thing. The game is too easy. This is where the Tiger-vision comes into play - there is no skill in putting now. They should make the Legends harder. The PGA tour season is too easy. The first tournament I finished 70 strokes ahead of the next person. Other than this I really love this game. I do have one minor complaint. Some of the "fictional" courses have illegal holes. If it is humanly impossible to reach the green in four stokes on a par five that is an illegal hole. I think there is one hole that is a par four and its impossible to reach the green in three strokes too. These are stupid complaints though.

Basically I bought this game because I love the EA Sports Tiger Woods series, if you do as well.....Hurry and buy this game!!

Pros: the more customization of players and courses.
New courses such as Colonial, Troon North Monument, Turnberry. Edgewood at Tahoe.

Cons: Dropped great courses (unless I somehow can't find them), including Torrey Pines, Pinehurst, Bethpage, Royal Birkdale, Spyglass Hill, Sahalee, TPC Scottsdale, and Poppy Hills.

Game play is pretty much idential to preveious years.

Equipment manufacturers OK = Taylor Made, Ping, Cleveland, Callaway, Nike, and this year Dunlop. Also can buy shafts. But where is the big boy of the golf ball market - Titleist?

I'm all for adding improvements in the area of customization for players, but not at the expense of courses to play on. I suggest that if you already have 2004, don't bother buying 2005. If you don't have 2004, 2005 might be a good purchase.

Tiger Woods 2005 is a lot of fun. I had the 2003 version and this was a big upgrade. The game would be ever funner if it wasn't quite so easy.It is kind of stupid too play in a PGA Tour event and shoot 85 under par while the second place guy is at -6.

I've enjoyed playing Tiger Woods for the last 2 years on the XBox. I've been excited for the last year knowing that we will finally be able to play online via XBox Live with the 2005 version.

I just confirmed that EA Sports has made this version so that only 2 people, that's right, only TWO can play online at a time. What happened to being able to play 3 other people (4 at a time) online???

Links (from Microsoft) has been out for a year now and one of the best things about that game is that you can have a foursome, just like regular golf.

Tiger Woods 2005 has all the bells and whistles to make a great looking game, however, one of the key selling points for me was being able to play with 4 people online. There are many of us who have been playing Links for the last year waiting for the new Tiger Woods version, and now we are not going to purchase it. It looks like we'll be staying with Links for another year.

Too bad EA Sports, you really dropped the ball on this one.

As soon as I bought Tiger Woods 2005, i popped open my XBOX disc drive and put in the game. While it was loading, I noticed something- the graphics were pretty much the same! I noticed this during gameplay as well, and I was disappointed that EA did not make much of an effort to upgrade the franchise's weak point. Gameplay also is pretty similiar to 2004, although Tiger Proofing is a neat feature that allows you to make your own course. If you already own TWPT04, I would not recommend this game, but for golf fans looking for a videogame should buy this one, not junk like Outlaw Golf.

This game is the best golf game because it has very good graphics and you can do so many things. There are also a lot of cool unlockables like people and courses. This game is also fun because you can play with the game and play against the game. You can also make up your own courses with different colors and you can make your own players and design their pants, shirts and shoes.

This game is a lot of fun and very vast. There are thousands of items to buy, such as shirts, shorts, sneakers, watches, tattoos, hair dye, course paint, drivers, black golf balls, etc. Also, it is thrilling to create a character. It is fun to try and make yourself or your friend, although the glasses available are often too obscuring of the eyes to make an accurate image of your friends with glasses. The game features five sets of seven people each, and to be honest, I beat each one after at most three tries. Compare this to Vijay Singh and Solita Lopez on 2003, each of which took me nearly 100 times to defeat. Even Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus were easy to defeat in 2005. Also, I would have preferred one track of 36 men, such that man n is harder than man n-1, as opposed to splitting it into five parts. In terms of the Tiger Proofing, I just don't find that too much fun. I'm up to the final Tiger Woods having played the game for under a week. I think it is because of the Tiger Vision, the ability to view exactly where to putt the ball, which you get four of per course (if your putting attribute is high enough, which it soon will be). Fun game, but too easy.

Pretty good game. Plays way better than any of the other Tiger Woods games ive played on PS2 and Xbox. I would recommend this game.

For me, this is the best Tiger Woods PGA Tour there is. I always end up buying the newest one, but this one is always the most fun. Sure the new ones have better graphics and new courses etc. But this one is by far the best.