Links 2004...........final verdict, anyone?

btmgov · Post by **btmgov** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:12 pm

Haven´t really heard as much as I had anticipated on here about this title. Golf is probably my favorite video gaming of all, is this game worthy of the investment? Thanks.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:15 pm

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 Best single player console golf game on the market. Throw in the fact you can play it online and there is no comparison.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:26 pm

Unless you´ve got a decent PC, in which case TW 2004 is the best golf game...period.

Boom · Post by **Boom** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 9:11 pm

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pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:03 pm

Short and sweet: Best console golf game, period.
 
 Take care,
 PK

Sudz · Post by **Sudz** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:49 pm

enough real courses and a "woodsesque" career mode?

J_Cauthen · Post by **J_Cauthen** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:44 pm

It is the best console golf game I´ve played since PGA Tour Golf on the Genesis. I still play it fairly regularly, although there´s just a few things missing. Some of them I can put my finger on (like only using half of the thumbstick´s Y axis for its control zone), but others that I can´t quite figure. I don´t think it´s ball physics are as good as Tiger 2004´s on the XBox.
 
 About once or twice every round I hit a shot that´s just way off the chart in misery. It seems that there´s a breaking point that is reached disproportionally. Once you´ve hit it, you´re going to go from missing the fairway and landing in the rough, to missing the next fairway, and ending up in the one next to it!?
 
 I admit that I´m probably less than average in gamepad ability, but I don´t see the balance in the scale of Links 2004´s controller programming at times. It seems to be either a believable miss, or a grossly exaggerated error.
 
 Keep this in mind though... I only have two players - one with 7 skill points (for when I get to play in the Skill 7 tournaments) and one with 17 skill points. This is slightly less a problem with the 17 skill point player, but the rest of the game will begin to get too easy if I raise any more attributes.
 
 Having said all that; I´d still buy the game again knowing what I know.

grtwhtsk · Post by **grtwhtsk** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:53 am

Never played a round of real golf, but love Links 2004. It is one of the few games that had me hooked immediately.