Review: Hot Shots Golf Out of Bounds

Up to eight players will be able to connect online and take part in tournament matches / Customizable avatar that you can move around a clubhouse setting.

It's the same old same old here. If you've played Hot Shots Fore, you have pretty much played this game already. Not that it ain't just as fun as Fore was, it is. But the problems I had with that version are still problems with this iteration.

Lets start with the wind. The game won't give you the wind speed until after you take your first shot. Why bother telling me at all? Tell me before I send my first shot into the weeds because the wind was alot stronger then my best guess. And as always predicting what the wind will do to your ball is anybody's guess anyway. One time a 4.5 mile an hour wind will blow you all over the place, the next it won't barely move the ball.

And if your used to playing Tiger Woods, this game is going to frustrate you to no end. Things like the balls lie, don't affect the shot the way it does in Tiger. Not that it don't affect the shot, just not as much as you think it will. Unless of course you don't think it will, then of course it's going to alot.

And the button mashing shot system. Let's face reality. Tiger's shot system is far far superior. If your timing is even slightly off, look out for the weeds. The little bar moving thru the power meter, goes just a little too fast soemtimes, and getting a perfect shot or even just a decent one, can be horribly frustrating.

And as far as graphics go, there are no signifgant improvments here. In fact I think that Hot Shot's fore on the PS2 was better. The PS3 version almost looks dark and grainy. There is a lack of smooth to it at all. Not next gen in any way shape or form. It's just last gen,dressed up for the PS3. And not even very well.

And lets talk for a mintute about the crowd. Could they be any more repetive with the little things they say. I wanted to reach in the TV a strangle the guy who keeps saying "Spot of bother here" in his thick Scotish accent. You'll here it at least twice on every hole. It makes me miss the lame annouce team in Tiger. At least I could tune those guys out.

Look bottome line, I don't mind the cartoonish appearance, in fact I kida like it. Always have. Not everything needs to be a real life sim. But when you go from shooting a -14 regularly in Tiger to barely breaking even in Hot shots, it's a little much. And after playing this game I remember why I started playing Tiger.

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