The Golf Club
SCORE: 58
Gamers may be irritated with EA Sports. I have heard quite a few guys
talking at the gaming store that they want choice when it comes to
sports games. They want competition on the market. You are getting your
wish thanks to HB Studios and The Golf Club.
This golf simulation game will be appearing on the PS4, and Xbox One as
well as the Personal Computer. I played it on the PC, and will review
for PC only. My hope is the Playstation 4, and Xbox One versions will be
better than what I played on the PC.
The first thing I noticed about The Golf Club is the glitches. This game
crashed, and locked up numerous times. It did so on a gaming PC that is
not that old. So I would not expect it to do this. How many families
keep up with the latest PC specs? I dropped the frame rate to medium and
The Golf Club was less glitchy.
The Golf Club really wants to be in a small window. Putting it in full
screen mode pixelated the graphics bad. It was difficult to read the
words on the screen. Keeping it in a small window is better, but just as
hard to read such small text. This is when I started to get worried
about The Golf Club.
Excitement welled up within me when I discovered The Golf Club would
play with the Family Friendly Gaming PC controller. This eventually died
out when I started to play The Golf Club. Swinging the club is simple
enough, except for the lag. Power is a guessing game in The Golf Club. I
went way over the hole, and barely moved the golf ball other times.
Putting in The Golf Club is a nightmare. Where are there hills? Where
are the slopes? How much power is needed? It was all a nasty guessing
game that would put me six, seven, eight shots over par. I moved the
ball a few feet closer to the hole, and whizzed right past it other
times.
The bird sounds, and feel of the golf courses is amazing. The courses
look nice, and have an okay design to them. The announcers comments are
sometimes timely, and other times way off base. How can I hit the ball
perfectly and end up in a sand trap? Or in the rough? The Golf Club
produces questions like that. Or how can the announcer say I am going
into the sand trap, and I end up on the green? The opposite also
happened.
There is local multiplayer in The Golf Club. I also noticed what looked
like other players playing. Balls would bounce around me, go into the
hole, and more. It was actually distracting and added to the confusion
of trying to figure out how to play this golf game.
The end verdict is The Golf Club has potential. There is a big, long
hill this game has to climb to get into the conversation with Tiger
Woods PGA Tour golf games. Maybe in a few years this franchise will be
able to compete. That would be neat to see.
- Frank
Graphics: 60%
Sound: 60%
Replay/Extras: 60%
Gameplay: 40%
Family Friendly Factor: 70%
System: Personal Computer
Publisher: HB Studios
Developer: HB Studios
Rating: ‘RP' - for
Rating Pending
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