Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Prove yourself as the greatest golfer ever in this fun golf simulation game
• Create a golfer using the most advanced Game Face technology ever released
• Battle through 5 classic periods of golf with Tiger Woods and other legends
• New mini games, 19 licensed golfers, and 12 authentic PGA Tour courses
• All-new Rival mode; new shot mechanics; new Gamebreaker Meter

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0009W8QQE
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 22, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,919 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #4 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Golf
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

Is Tiger Woods the best golfer of all time? He’s ready to settle that debate once and for all and only you can stop him. Create a golfer using the most advanced Game Face technology ever released, and battle through five classic periods of golf with Tiger Woods and other legends like Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer challenging you every step of the way. With new mini games, 19 licensed golfers, and 12 authentic PGA Tour courses, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 challenges you to call out your rivals and prove yourself as the greatest golfer ever.

Features:

• All-new Rival mode: Prove yourself as the greatest golfer of all time by taking on the legends in the prime of their careers--on their terms. Do you have what it takes to beat Jack Nicklaus in his heyday with a bag full of wooden clubs or Tiger Woods with his modern-day equipment?
• New shot mechanics: For the first time, both analog sticks control each shot from tee to green. The left analog stick controls your swing, and the right analog Shape Stick dictates ball trajectory and putt strength.
• Call your shots: Back your challenges with wagers before any shot or round. Bigger odds are given to special accomplishments, so reap the largest rewards for nailing the toughest shots.
• New courses and golfers: experience 15 beautifully detailed courses including Pebble Beach Golf Links, St Andrews, Reflection Bay, Doral Golf Resort, and more as you play as or against Tiger Woods and 16 other PGA Tour players, including the newly added Chris DiMarco, Mike Weir, Ian Poulter, and Luke Donald.
• New Gamebreaker Meter: build confidence to trigger Gamebreaker situations, and boost your power and accuracy by making great shots and posting low scores.

Product Description

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 is our early entry to the next generation of golf games. It delivers ultra-realistic course environments with the intensity of a championship golf tournament. With greatness comes pressure, as players are put to the test of making perfect tee shots or sinking tournament-winning putts in crunch time.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much different, but much the same., September 25, 2005

By 

Christopher M. Domico (Elgin, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 (CD-ROM)

I love the Tiger Woods series of golf games, and have been playing them for quite awhile. The best platform for these (and all games in my opinion) is the PC. And of all golf games, Tiger Woods is undeniably the best series. For this game specifically, it plays the same way as 2005 did, but there is just enough new content to make it feel like a diffent game.

First and foremost, it runs WAY smoother. I have a PC that can run any game out there, and 2005 had some stuttering problems. They seemed to have all the bugs worked out on this one. I have every graphic option set on the highest setting and it runs smooth as silk. My setup:

256 MB BFG Nvidia 6800GT OC video card
1 GB DDR RAM
Asus K8V SE Deluxe motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor

A lot of that power isn't necessary to run this game, except for the video card. Graphically, this game is pretty gorgeous. I wouldn't say it's as good looking as Half Life 2 or Battlefield 2, but it's pretty close. The only complaint I really have is the same one I had with 05: there doesn't seem to be any anti-aliasing process, so the flagsticks look jagged if they're bending in the wind, and sometimes the tree trunks look a little goofy. Other than that, the courses have an updated look and things just look a little more polished in general.

As far as the layout of the game, the menus have all been updated to look a little sleeker, and the different play modes of the game seem a little more personal. Everything looks a little less generic in general.

Gameplay wise, don't expect a whole lot of difference. If fact, don't expect any difference. This isn't a bad thing at all. The True Swing controls were fine the way they were. In 06 however, you can also use a controller if you want to so that it plays more like the console releases. I don't plan on doing this because I'm used to using the mouse, but it's there if I decide to try to hook up the controller and use the analog sticks.

Where this game really feels different is the way you progress through it. If you start as a new character, which I think is more fun, you don't just jump on the PGA tour this time. You have to earn your way to even being able to play on the tour. I think it's really cool, because it starts you from square one playing with your computer generated golf buddies on whatever course you choose to be your home course. They call this the hack tour and there are many different side games you play to earn money. It's also a chance to build up skills. In this game you don't buy attributes, you use experience points to get them. Your money is used to take lessons and buy equipment. I think that is a more realistic approach and it was a good move on the part of EA. Also, at first I was a little disappointed that everything seemed the same in general compared to last years game, even as far as the same cinematic scenes on startup and the same character animations. However, if you play long enough you'll start noticing more and more new things.

Now for the bad. First of all, it's not necessarily free online play. You get presented with a choice when you first try to play online. Either pay a $2.00 subscription fee, or let ESPN pay the fee for you, thus giving them permission to send you e mail about other products. I immediately had visions of an inbox full of spam, so I paid the $2.00. It looked like this would be a one time only fee, so what the heck, right? Hopefully they'll use my money to fix the lag on their Battlefield 2 servers. The other lame thing was that I wasn't given the option to import my old character from 05, which I had maxed out. I would have loved to keep him and play through the whole game, but maybe then it wouldn't have let me start from the beginning anyway.

I think I would've called this game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 version 1.5 rather than 06. That's why I gave it 4 stars. However, 05 was a great game, so any improvement on it is going to also be a great game. I have already spent a lot of time in front of the computer playing it. EA did a lot of little things to fix some of the annoying stuff from last year's game, so kudos to the evil empire on this one. As easy as it is to hate EA, they do make great games, and this is one of them.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An expansion to an already great game., October 8, 2005

By 

JBT (Reality, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 (CD-ROM)

I picked up on this great golf series starting with the 2005 version. The 2006 title has everything that made 2005 great plus a few extras. If you have never played any of the previous versions then this is a no-brainer purchase. The best golf game there is.

If you have played the predecessors then you are probably wondering if this title offers anything above and beyond what you have already seen. I will say that this game seems more like a slight expansion with a patch to enhance performance than it does a full blown release. Here are the reasons:

1) The gameplay is the same. This is a good thing. The gameplay in 2005 was so good I imagine that any change would be a step backward. This part of the game supports the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" rule.
2) The commentary is the exact same. Word for word. If you played the 2005 version long enough to hear all the comments over and over again then you have already heard everything that has to be said in this game. I mean it was so dead on I wondered if the game was accidentally using the commentary files from my TW2005 installation.
3) The graphics have been improved and so has the performance. You have several old favorites from TW2005 and they look much sharper and run without chopping.
4) The box boasted an improved game face. The game face was still nice but I did not see anything new. In fact some of the characters I created to look like myself and people I know with the 2005 game face were not as easy to reproduce with the new version.
5) Many of the "new" game types are only new on the surface. For example, you now go back in time to take on legends of the past but when you strip it of its new interface you realize that it is the exact same thing as the scenarios mixed with a little legends from TW2005.

They did improve on some things. Of course you do have much more ofa a clothing variety, a few new courses, and equipment. Things like that could easily be handled in a relatively simple expansion or mod.

One vast improvement is the way you progress as a golfer throughout the game. You now earn experience points that are seperate from money earnings. Experience points, not money, is used to buy attribute points. This makes for a much more difficult, but not too much so, progress up through the ranks of the PGA tour.

Another improvement is the addition of group play. You can team up with a partner to play 4 ball and other group gaming modes. This may have been availble online in the previous versions, I'm not sure, but it is now available in single player games. It can be frustrating though when you are playing alternate hits and your CPU partner misses nearly every 6 foot putt.

I gave this game 5 stars because it is extremely fun. It has a high replay value due to the things that can be unlocked and due to the way you have to progress through the game to become top dog. If you are new to the series you can't miss this game. If you are looking for vast improvements over the previous version you might want to wait until the price comes down. You should still get it because it does add to the series but maybe not enough to justify the full price of a new game.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bogey -- just so-so..., March 25, 2006

By 

Allan Marks (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 (CD-ROM)

I'm not sure what EA Sports was shooting for with this game, but it falls a litte short. Swing feel is inconsistent, particularly off the tees, on approach shots and putting.

The backswing in 3-click mode sometimes speeds up much faster for similar shots/clubs/distances, making it difficult to gauge when to click. And some approach shots/putts I'll give it a fair amount of swing and the ball will go 3 feet. Then on the follow up shot, I'll give it a little more juice to compensate, and the ball flies off the green.

And most annoying of all, sometimes when your turn comes to putt, one of the computer-generated players will be standing between you and the cup blocking your view and making it impossible to read the green.

I bought PGA Tour 2006 to learn Pebble Beach prior to playing there later this year, and it's worth it to see the course. However, I can't recommend it for gamers who are looking for consistent play. It's just not ready for prime time.

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