![]() ![]() In EA Sports PGA Tour, you gradually improve and progress your player by spending earned XP, learning and adding new shot types to your arsenal, and by enhancing your skills. While 2K's series offers a simple career, and 2K23 saw some boosts to that, your player could still bomb 300-yard drives from the off. Often the standout of previous EA golf games, the depth and intricacies of taking your created player - male, female, or gender-neutral – from the toils of being a hack entering the amateur tour, all the way to winning majors is back with a vengeance. ![]() The same level of thought and authenticity is also present in the career mode. Naturally, in real life, the swing arc is open to error and alteration, especially as you improve at the game, so seeing this as something that can change based on your play, and not just rely on a 'line on a ball' graphic in the HUD, is very welcome. For example, there's a swing arc that tracks the path of the club neatly but also shows you where you deviate from it something that sits very nicely in terms of real-life golf simulation. The mix of specialist shots and shaping tactics looks greater already, and even the way it's presented appears purer and closer to real golf. There's solid potential for the game's deep and multi-layered golf mechanics to elevate it well above that offered by the 2K games. ![]() Each tree is correctly placed, and each color of Azalea is right for the Augusta National course at the time of the Masters. They've been made by liaising with geologists, utilizing low-flying helicopters, and the Masters' private database. The landscape designer in me loves the fact that these courses aren't just dev-made or researched. Using EA's Frostbite engine, these courses look fantastic, serving up the new-gen visuals committed swingers have waited for. Each one has been meticulously surveyed for their recreation. This approach to offering the best courses and tournaments extends to offering 30 'bucket list' courses at launch. The last EA installment, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, only had two of the majors, and PGA 2K23's major schedule is also light and a bit disappointing. ![]() "Everything we've built, more than any other game before, has been designed to make you feel like a major championship golfer." Owning this territory and being the only game to offer all four majors – the most-requested feature from fans – immediately puts it above its predecessors. "We want to put you on the first tee in the shoes of a major champion," says lead producer David Baker. That is further improved through the use from two other third-party data sources - the PGA Tour's ShotLink and TrackMan - which not only gave the team real-world mechanics for ball movement, thanks to storing many thousands of shots from the PGA Tour itself, but also player motion and behaviour that has provided the animation specifics for each licenced professional in the game.Ever since the teaser trailer for EA Sports PGA Tour, narrated by Jordan Spieth and showing Augusta National, the messaging was clear: only in EA's game can you play the major tournaments, and become a true hall of famer. And so, we were told, that when a ball interacts with the course, it will move across these minor spots in the same way it would for real. The bumps on the ground are in the exact same spot - as are the imperfections on the fairways and greens. Impressively, this level of minute detail doesn't just help the look of the game but the feel. Augusta even gave the developer access to its tree health system, which accurately maps every flowerbed, tree and other types of flora to ensure they are placed in exactly the same position in the game as in real life. That's because every course was mapped using multiple methods - by helicopter using LiDAR technology, through high-resolution camera drones too, and by taking thousands of photos on the ground. ![]()
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