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This isnвЂ™t just a lack of skill on your part until you have practiced and worked on your player attributes вЂ“ shot power, accuracy, putting and the rest вЂ“ your on-screen self is roughly as much use as my real self would be on a Pro course. The main issue most players are going to find here is that, starting off, youвЂ™re simply not good enough to compete on any kind of level pegging. Once again the idea is to train a novice golfer, ready to take part in PGA tournaments around the world. The career mode is, of course, where most of us will be spending most of our time. The tutorial-led approach of 07 has disappeared, and the game now hits you straight up with the Play Now option and a bewildering list of game-modes, including the basic career mode, the various play modes, arcade and mini-game options and the new online features (which weвЂ™ll come back to later). Still, while the new Tiger doesnвЂ™t look vastly different from the old one, quite a lot of work has been done on the structure and вЂ“ more importantly вЂ“ the controls. The oddest thing about the whole thing is that you can then watch yourself performing the various angry tantrums and smug celebrations in-game, accompanied by an annoying American voice that only makes the whole experience more eerie. The results are surprisingly good, particularly with a little work on the hair and facial structure, even if I seemed unable to transform my neck from a weird olive-green colour to the pasty flesh-tone it actually is. Simply, upload a front shot and a side shot to EAвЂ™s website or connect a USB camera вЂ“ MicrosoftвЂ™s Live Vision camera in the 360 version вЂ“ then position a small number of markers, and after twenty minutes or so of cogitation the game spits out a reasonable likeness, ready for tweaking. At last, you donвЂ™t have to play Tiger or some PGA stalwart, or use the Game Face feature to create some vague, idealised facsimile of you you can get your own face in the game and walk the uncanny valley in your own weathered skin. In fact, the biggest graphical enhancement isnвЂ™t anything to do with the engine or the art, but the introduction of the Photo Game Face feature. ItвЂ™s just that other genres are training us to expect a whole lot more. DonвЂ™t get me wrong: this is still the best-looking golf game around by some margin.

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The lighting on the courses, skin and clothes seems oddly flat, the trees look distinctly artificial, and thereвЂ™s a sense that all the different components in the scene вЂ“ the players, the grass, the tress, the crowd вЂ“ still donвЂ™t quite mesh into one coherent whole. Yet there are still many areas where the game could really do with some attention. There are some nice atmospheric effects and depth-of-field blurs being thrown around, and the long grass doesnвЂ™t fade in so obviously anymore. True, there are better, more realistic textures on the greens, and the picture-in-picture nonsense seems to have been toned down.

#TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 08 PC CAMERAS UPDATE#

In the interval between Tigers, the likes of Gears of War, GRAW2 and Bioshock have redefined what we should expect from HD-era games, yet the 08 update seems stuck in a rut.

Well, frankly, anyone expecting to see any vast improvements in Tiger Woods 08 is in for a big disappointment, particularly when it comes to visuals. WeвЂ™re still left wanting a game that could truly take golf somewhere new. The problem is that it didnвЂ™t do much more. Tiger Woods 07 made good some of the deficit by cramming in more courses and game modes, while also warming up our virtual champ. WhatвЂ™s more, it bought us one of the most terrifying examples of the вЂuncanny valleyвЂ™ yet seen in a video game, with a digital Tiger seemingly straight out of the Stepford labs.

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Tiger Woods 06 bought the franchise into the HD era, but as several courses and plenty of content had gone missing in the transition from the PS2 and PC versions, it felt like a bit of a rush-job. ItвЂ™s a sobering thought that weвЂ™re already on our third Tiger Woods on the Xbox 360 вЂ“ I guess weвЂ™re way past the point where we can talk about MicrosoftвЂ™s breakdown-prone box as a next-generation console, and also past the point where we can get too excited about the usual annual franchise updates.

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