Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002

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Product Features

• Tiger Woods most success games and gulf tips for the professional and beginner golfer

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005V3EZ
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 5, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,020 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #17 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Sports > Golf

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2 | Edition: Standard

Amazon.com Review

Whether your video golfing ability classifies you as a tour-hardened pro or weekend duffer, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 provides ample opportunity to refine and enhance your strengths. Gone is the swing power meter in earlier incarnations in favor of a new wrinkle from EA Sports--Total Precision Swing. Essentially, the onscreen golfer is your real-time power meter, as you now have the ability to control his or her entire motion, from backswing to follow-through. Power drives, insane-angle slices, fading hooks, and more can all be executed with the proper touch. And while the Total Precision Swing's learning curve is steep, it does add new flavor to the game.

Among the new game modes are the Tiger Challenge and Speed Golf. In the Tiger Challenge, you compete as Woods against a progression of 17 players--some PGA Tour players and some original EA Sports characters--to earn cash rewards and the right to unlock hidden golfers. You can also unlock individual holes on Tiger's Dream 18, a course designed by Woods himself. Speed Golf features a fast and furious race to the hole in which you can either compete by yourself or split-screen against another player. Money is earned in head-to-head competition by finishing the hole first, and through bonuses for such things as teeing off first and hitting a longer drive than your opponent. Any money earned is subsequently drained from your opponent's total, creating all-out mayhem on the course. Other game modes offer stroke, match, and tournament play, skins, scenarios, and practice. Also, Play Now mode offers a helpful tutorial that you must complete before moving on to further options.

Visually, the game's many courses and related elements depict a stunning, near-live experience. From the well-kept fairways and greens of Pebble Beach and the TPC at Sawgrass to the otherworldly dazzle of Copperhead Canyon, the courses come alive with rainy mists, murky fogs, and glowing sunsets. Also enhancing the experience are crashing ocean waves, rippling lakes, swaying tree branches, and even the occasional live animal should you knock a shot into the trees. --Larry White

Pros:

• Wide variety of opponents in Tiger Challenge
• Innovative Speed Golf competition
• Stunning visuals

Con:

• Analog swing control may take some getting used to

Product Description

Whether your video golfing ability classifies you as a tour-hardened pro or weekend duffer, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 provides ample opportunity to refine and enhance your strengths. Gone is the swing power meter in earlier incarnations in favor of a new wrinkle from EA Sports--Total Precision Swing. Essentially, the onscreen golfer is your real-time power meter, as you now have the ability to control his or her entire motion, from backswing to follow-through. Power drives, insane-angle slices, fading hooks, and more can all be executed with the proper touch. And while the Total Precision Swing's learning curve is steep, it does add new flavor to the game.

Among the new game modes are the Tiger Challenge and Speed Golf. In the Tiger Challenge, you compete as Woods against a progression of 17 players--some PGA Tour players and some original EA Sports characters--to earn cash rewards and the right to unlock hidden golfers. You can also unlock individual holes on Tiger's Dream 18, a course designed by Woods himself. Speed Golf features a fast and furious race to the hole in which you can either compete by yourself or split-screen against another player. Money is earned in head-to-head competition by finishing the hole first, and through bonuses for such things as teeing off first and hitting a longer drive than your opponent. Any money earned is subsequently drained from your opponent's total, creating all-out mayhem on the course. Other game modes offer stroke, match, and tournament play, skins, scenarios, and practice. Also, Play Now mode offers a helpful tutorial that you must complete before moving on to further options.

Visually, the game's many courses and related elements depict a stunning, near-live experience. From the well-kept fairways and greens of Pebble Beach and the TPC at Sawgrass to the otherworldly dazzle of Copperhead Canyon, the courses come alive with rainy mists, murky fogs, and glowing sunsets. Also enhancing

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite simply the best console golf game in years, March 1, 2002

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Ben D Over "bmw330i" (Cary, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 (Video Game)

Fans of the big-headed, no talent needed to play, Hot Shots Golf series can stop reading. Tiger Woods 2002 is not for you. TW2002 is what I like to call a *great* golf game. The engine has been revamped, and gone is the ... [bad] swing meter (FINALLY!). To swing the club now, you use the analog sticks, and it works better than any tri-click method could ever hope for.

EA messed up last year by only including 3 courses, but remedied that this year with 7. The shining jewel in their crown is Pebble Beach. No other golf game has been able to mimic how difficult this course can be, or how important it is to place your approach shots under the pin. Sawgrass is also a thing of beauty. There's 2 more real courses, and then 3 courses EA dreamed up, and what wonderful imaginations their designers have.

What I love about the game (and what some may detest) is that the game has you create a player, and then build that player by beating challengers in the Tiger Tourney mode, or by playing in Scenario mode. Performing well in Tiger Tourney (basically its 17 eighteen hole matches...if you win, you earn the right to play as the person you beat, you get a ton of cash, and you open up other extras like another hole on Tigers Dream 18 course). The scenario mode is awesome as well. There's about 25 different scenarios that you must perform well in to earn gold, silver, or bronze. For example, you have to play the 4 Par 5s at SawGrass in 14 shots to get a gold, 16 for a silver, or 18 for bronze. Extremely entertaining and challenging.

The requisite other play modes are here as well: Tournament, Stroke Play, Match Play, and Skins. EA has outdone themselves, however, with the brand new Speed Gold mode. It enables you the chance to play 1 on 1 golf in splitscreen against a friend or enemy. The better you do, the more money your opponent loses. Great stuff to be sure.

Thanks EA, it's been a long time since I've enjoyed a golf game as much as this. And did I mention the new graphics engine kicks unspeakable [rear end]...butt? Yep. Enjoy!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun & Addictive... near perfect golf SIM, August 20, 2002

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R. Gorham "RCG2" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 (Video Game)

Excellent graphics on Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002... best visuals I've yet to see on a golf game on any system. Ocean surf pounding the rocks off Pebble Beach, beautiful desert buttes on Copper Canyon, birds chirping and flying by, trees sway one at a time as if a breeze is really touching them one by one, cameras following the speeding golf ball on its flight path over stunning hills and caverns. No swing meter - innovative and thanks to EA Sports for taking that step. Sure it's a bit tough to get used to at first, but once you get the hang of it, the old swing meter on every other golf game seems archaic. Six courses (also included are the famous Sawgrass and Royal Birkdale) and Tiger's DREAM course that needs to be unlocked hole by hole with each victory. One of these days I'll get to create my own course (it's an option). The speed golf option is down-right fun... but obtaining bronze/silve/gold medals is nearly impossible. This SIM also features a practice mode (where you can visit select courses), stroke play, match play, and skins. Announcers are good and fairly low key... and I appreciate them trying not to add humor (to my bad shots). Three things I dislike about this game... 1. Where is the "save" button? It is insane to have to play all 18 holes before being able to save your game, 2. The repetitive triple wave in the early matches after a good shot by Tiger or any of the other golfers, and 3. Hitting the power stroke could have been easier - it's awkward having to swing the club with either thumb back and forth AND repeatedly hit the L1 button for power (it's a coordination thing). I've found that playing a round (on just about any of the courses) will take 35-40 minutes... this includes some time to hit the replay button on your best shots. Listen to your heart... I don't care what my young teenage kids say ("it's boring"). You don't have to be a sports fan or even a golfer to enjoy this game... but by other PS2 games standards this game is kind of dull (there is no killing of any kind, no skateboarders, no running things over with your car, no knife thrusts, no kick-boxing moves, no bombs exploding). It's a realistic golf SIM... period. It's as relaxing as it is stressful... just like the real game of golf. Addictive. Fun. Huge replay value. Note: Hole #3 on Copper Canyon (a short par 3)... got my first hole-in-one here and a special "ball" (and $ cash) to go with it. Super shots will get you more money to go buy more attributes to improve your golfer.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, April 24, 2002

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face02 (Schaumburg, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 (Video Game)

The last PS2 version (and first in a hopefully long-running series) was excellent. I was trying to wait for PS2 on-line capabilities before I bought another golf game, knowing full-well that the good folks at EA Sports would take advantage of the opportunity and put out an online Tiger game as soon as the switch was flipped on the network. Then my best friends bought this game, and called me over to see it.
WOW!! It plays VERY different than the initial PS2 game - it plays much tougher, in a good way. You have to "build" your golfer by purchasing attributes with the money you earn in the game. You start off as a pretty poor golfer.... but after the first few golfers you defeat in the Tiger Challenge, you can be decent.
The game basically consists of three main gameplay modes where you can earn cash: Tiger Challenge, Scenarios, and Tournaments. The Tiger Challenge pits you against a golfer in a skins game. Very fun, very challenging. Each golfer is better than the next, which works out well because you are also "building" and improving as you go. You can earn some serious cash here, but don't be surprised if it takes you a few times to defeat the golfers later in the game. After you beat the golfer, you can use their character as your own body (you have to start as Tiger), and it unlocks a hole on the Tiger dream 18 course.
There are about 20 scenarios to choose from, where you earn money based on how well you do. The scenarios are different and challenging enough to be a lot of fun. The drawback is that you don't earn all that much money by playing them.
The tournaments are a happy medium. Usually 1-2 rounds can be played in about 1/2 an hour and you definately have to have your golfer built up well to compete.
There are many other modes, such as Speed Golf and Stroke/Skins play against friends/computer, that make this a great game.
Don't wait for the next version. Buy this one now. It is more than worth it!!

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