Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 489
Format: CD
Platform: PlayStation 3
Genre: golf_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
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MPN: 19362
Model: 19362
UPC: 014633193626
EAN: 0014633193626
Publication Date: May 31, 2010
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| Features:
| • | PlayStation Move - Experience heightened accuracy and control with the PlayStation Move controller as it reads how you rotate in 3D space while swinging. The Move reproduces your swing style to give you the most authentic golf experience possible. | | • | Take the Team Online ? Compete in an all new team golf mode that allows up to 24 players to compete head to head as members of a team. Join a team or create your own, then hit the fairways to see if your team can rise to the top of the leaderboards. | | • | Play From a True-Aim ?Take authenticity and immersion to a whole new level in this all new way to play. Get an HD look inside the ropes to tackle the course the way the pros see it, from a first person point of view. | | • | Bring Home the Ryder Cup ?Choose the U.S. or European squad and play through the prestigious Ryder Cup tournament on the ever-challenging Celtic Manor. | | • | Keep Your Focus - Improve your golfer?s performance by making strategic choices at every shot. Strategically manage when to use boost, spin, putt previews and the all-new shot accuracy to get the most of out of your round. |
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Product Description
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 PS3
Amazon.com Product Description
You take a knee and survey the 18th green. Your ball is 20 feet from the pin, and the green breaks to the left. As you approach your ball you can feel the weight of the nation on your shoulders. Gripping the putter, you breathe in deeply and exhale as you begin your backswing. The putter strikes the ball and it begins to roll. Rising to their feet as the ball dances across the green, the crowd's cheers begin to swell. Ten feet to go. You watch the path of the ball as it approaches the hole. Five feet to go. The ball hits the lip of the cup and softly drops in as the crowd erupts — you've just won the Ryder Cup. 
Compete in the prestigious Ryder Cup Tournament. View larger. | 
Putt on some of the PGA Tour's most renowned championship courses! View larger. | 
Tweak matchups on the fly. View larger. | 
Realistic models and textures for enhanced gameplay. View larger. |
Synopsis
Represent the U.S. or European squad in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 as you compete in the prestigious Ryder Cup tournament on The Celtic Manor Resort in Wales. Captain your team and adjust matchups on the fly as you fight for glory. Challenge up to 23 friends in Online Team Play as you compete in two 12-person teams to see who can rise to the top of the leaderboards. See if you can make par on some of the PGA Tour's most celebrated courses. Can you lead your team to Ryder Cup glory? Features: Compete in the prestigious Ryder Cup Tournament on The Celtic Manor Resort in Wales as you represent either the U.S. or European squad Tweak matchups on the fly as you captain your team to victory Participate in Better Ball, Alternate Shot and Match Play competitions Drive, chip and putt on some of the PGA Tour's most renowned championship courses, including TPC Scottsdale Online Team Play allows you to form two teams of up to 12 players each and compete head-to-head against others online Graphical enhancements such as textured clothing, flowing hair and apparel and time of day changes during the round provide more realistic gameplay |
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Fun Fore All ? August 31, 2010
John (New Jersey, USA)
Excuse the bad review title. I try to be creative...
The Tiger Woods franchise hasn't been known to revolutionize the golf genre, or does the series contribute enough new material for casual fans to buy a new copy every single year. With the Tiger Woods franchise, your better off skipping buying it every other year. Trust me, you wont be missing much. Hardcore fans on the other hand, you may buy it regardless.
TW11 brings some major improvements in the realm of difficulty options. The True Aim camera does create a slightly more realistic approach to setting up your shots, and causing players to remember to adjust for carry + roll. While this is a worthy addition, it still has some flaws. Instead of the camera just switching to a first person perspective of your golfer, it zooms slightly in , past the golfer, and they stays in place regardless of what's in front of it. At times, grass or hills can block your view entirely. In these instances, your golfers actual view is much better, but the camera detaches in such a way that you cant even see where the ball landed. At least you don't have to actually search for the ball, and your comfortably set up for your next shot. Still, this can be annoying when hitting out of bunkers and the camera zooms into the sand or grassy hill leaving you blind of where the ball ended up. I feel this is something that certainly could have been fixed if EA had taken some time to perfect this new camera system, which they obviously did not spend much time on.
EA finally realized the clouds in the sky never moved, and the clothing on the golfers never moved, and so we are now able to see the sky change throughout an 18 hole round, and our clothes blow in the wind. Is it cool? Sure.... but you'll soon forget all about it. In my opinion these small details (more so the non-static sky ) should have been implemented years ago. This is the "next-gen " system era, and your telling me that in the past 2 years you just now realized that the sky should actually move, clothes ripple, and there be actual changes in weather and wind in real time?? I seem to be the only one to notice that with these new physics, the overall graphics of the game took a hit this year. The colors seems a bit washed out , as do the player models. Go ahead and compare last year to this year, its not hard to spot the difference. I wonder if the new physics caused a slight scale down in overall graphical quality? I think so.
The main thing here is if it's worth your time and money to purchase and play this years TW. If you own 10, are happy with it and are not seeking any more of challenge, then just wait until 2012. If you always felt the TW series has been more on the arcade-ish side and want a more difficult round of golf using the True-Aim, then go ahead and give it a shot. It certainly wont mimick the difficulties of real golf, but its obvious EA knows they need to appeal to casual gamers with the TW series and have made more of an effort to do so, then create an actual golf simulation. So don't expect a sim feel, but it does prove to be more challenging.
I have read numerous reviews from gaming websites, and I dont feel the people reviewing the Tiger Woods series are even true golf fans. If EA put as much attention to detail as they do their other sport franchises, they would motion capture more pro swings and create a much livelier commentary and crowd. For the casual golf gamer, these things dont mean much, but if your going to slap the "PGA Tour" in the title, maybe you could really create a great presentation of what professional golf feels like and implement some more camera angles to choose from, enhanced crowd physics ( all the crowd members tend to react the same at the same time) , and add some life to the boring commentary team you throw together every year.
Lots of nice little improvements here, but if you have 2010, and have even purchased additional courses, keep it. They raised downloadable course prices this year and its really not worth buying them again. EA doesnt seem to want you to be able to carry over courses you already purchased, and they released over 10 additional since this games release, and they want you to shell out $5-10 for each one. No thanks EA.
The Ryder Cup is cool once or twice, but its not going to keep you coming back. Lots of pro golfers here, but they didn't bother to get 90% of their actual swings in the game. Again , casual fans wont care, but EA should remember that with the monster grip they have on golf games right now, maybe they could throw true golf fans some surprises.
NOTE: If your buying this used, make sure you are aware of EA's new online pass code. Each new copy allows only that user to go online. EA claims they have such a great online experience, that everyone should pay for it. So if you buy this used, you may have to buy the additional code from EA for $10. Worth it? Not quite.
Pretty good August 26, 2010
Q. Groessl (Wisconsin)
I haven't had a Tiger game in a couple years... I was definately surprised at the weather... Love the rain and wind variables.... also, not too easy... the game is a challange...
Really, the only reason I didn't give five stars was because if you want to get the add-on courses... it's anywhere from 5-10 bucks.... Basically I paid 100 bucks for this game because I got all of the extra courses. Kind of a rip-off since the game has only been out 2 months and there's all those courses for such a high price.
 Great golf game- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 August 26, 2010
dschmidt74
Tiger Woods and EA sports have put out another great golf game for the wii. Despite what you may think about Tiger Woods with all his off the course activities and morality issues there is no better golf game on the market that even comes close to Tiger Woods pga tour 11. they have made it even more challenging with the true feel putting and swings. you can't just breeze through the game with 10 and 11 under rounds if you get sloppy with your swing it will end up in the rough or out of bounds. i had just got pga tour 10 in winter then this came out and sold the old version and upgraded. the face maker on this one is not as good seems like they took a step backwards. but the rest of the game features are really good. i would recommend to anyone interested in good golf game especially for the wii.
Many problems but I'm addicted to it August 24, 2010
J. Carver (Colorado, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
TW11 has many aggravating problems and issues, most of which have been listed in the reviews on this site. Some actually bring me to the point of anger. Despite all of these problems I love to play it but these problems with the game keep me from rating it higher than three stars. I think the game is much harder than TW10 which I like. Controls are more sensitive. Tournaments are much more realistic in terms of scoring. In their attempt to achieve this EA has done many things that are really unrealistic or unfair or just buggy. Still, I love the tournament competition and the quest to become better.
Here is my list of things I hate about the game: Note that these are all based on tournament play and not casual play.
# - You can't move the tee ball position left or right for your golfer. This is totally unrealistic compared to the real game. There are a few par 3 holes that have overhanging branches or trees in the way that you have to aim or draw or fade around to avoid hitting due to your tee position. EA will also usually have the wind blowing in the wrong direction to make this more difficult. Many players have suggested this fix in prior year's games but EA refuses to change it.
# - Wind. Playing in the wind is difficult as it should be but changing the wind speed dramatically in your backswing, during your swing or after you leave target zoom where you have aimed to allow for the wind? When you switch back and forth to target zoom to recorrect it will change it again! C'mon! This is my primary problem with this game.
# - There is no provision to select where you drop your ball after it enters a hazard. The game does it for you. This was not the case in TW10 and you sometimes are not given the best drop within the rules. Why did they leave this out this time?
# - Some pin placements are totally unfair. This is especially true in major tournaments where the greens are always set to very fast. Some placements are truly impossible.
# - The ability to spin your ball AFTER you hit it is ridiculous. While this allows you to play better and correct for offline shots it is unrealistic. (the ball spins after it hits the ground.) Ground fades and draws happen in real golf but they are not normally under the control of the golfer.
# - EA's manual is very small and practically useless for important things you really want to know but this is the case for all of their games. You're left on your own to figure out where selections are hidden in the menus. The manual does not tell you how the complicated XP system works so you know how to maximize your swing though points earned versus points purchased.
# - The load time between holes is very long. It seems EA would figure out a way to fix this but it seems they don't care.
# - Graphics are good but not great. I think the look of holes is more true to life in TW11 than in TW10.
# - You are limited to only wedges on pitch shots. If a 9 iron would give you the proper distance you're out of luck unless you guess at how much to deloft your wedge. You are also limited to wedges through 5 iron on chip shots. You should have a choice if you want to try a 3 iron chip with a lot of green to the hole. Also, if you want to try a driver off the deck you should be given that option.
# - The game sounds become aggravating after awhile. Also, turn off the sound for the annoying commentators immediately.
# - The sand wedge you start with and can't change until you unlock it seems to be supercharged with it going much farther than the yardage stated. I have yet to figure out how to unlock it.
# - Live weather. I recommend using this rather than random weather (lots of wind and rain) but if you think this is truly live then guess again. How can it change from sunny and calm to high winds with rain in 5 minutes? The changes are done by the game to make the later rounds more difficult. Also, if you check the actual weather for the city where you are playing it may not be the same.
# - The Playstation Move screens at the beginning of the game are annoying. I found that if you tap the X button they will advance more quickly.
# - Trajectory for long clubs seems too low and trying to carry bunkers or water is impossible even if you have the distance to make it. On long shots you have to aim away from the bunker or water even if you are close to max distance with your clubs. You should be able to shoot for the pin on long par 3's after you achieve a high level of proficiency. Maybe I just haven't figured out how to change the loft correctly yet and still have the correct distance. You also may be able to change your club loft in performance tuning or elsewhere but I haven't researched this.
# - The swing length required for putting on wet greens is totally exaggerated and disproportionate.
# - The penalty for medium rough and light rough for long clubs is unrealistic. Sometimes 5 more clubs is required from medium rough.
# - You can quit a tournament round before you finish it and start the round over. While this is nice if you really have to leave and turn off your machine it allows you to quit and restart until you get the round you like.
# - Tournament scoring. If you are close to the top of the leaderboard the other competitors scoring will keep pace with yours no matter how well you are playing. You can be playing exceptionally well in tough conditions and the other leaders will too.
# - Less than a full swing on chips doesn't work like other partial swings. Seems like you can't adjust your backswing to hit a 75% shot. You can hit 50-70%, but a slightly longer swing gets you 90% or higher.
Why do I still enjoy this game (actually an addiction) with all it's problems and inequities? Maybe I'm stubborn and enjoy the challenge of trying to overcome it all and become as good as I can. Maybe it's because it is golf and golf is unfair and is therefore, true to life. I don't know except I simply can't stop playing it. Possibly EA will stop being happy with just taking our money and actually produce a truly superior game but that doesn't seem likely. Who knows if there will even be future versions featuring Tiger?
I also really like the addition of the Ryder Cup although I have not played that yet as I can't figure out how to set up the teams. The manual, of course, is of no help.
Best of luck in your decision to buy or not buy TW11.
 feels clunky. EA charging for online play is lame August 15, 2010
Jason L. Tholstrup
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The new swing system just feels awkward. I like the concept of only having so much juice for power, backspin, putt preview seems but the execution of it is simply not fun. Also, ea just tries to milk every dollar off of you. In game ads, charge to play online for used games (or if you are at a friends or if you rent). Also if you buy every addon course you'll more than double the cost of the game and lnot come close to doubling the number of total courses.
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