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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land In a title update scheduled to arrive on April 20, gamers with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 and a Kinect sensor will be able to face the screen as they execute a golf swing, a more natural way to play video game golf, and a feature whose absence at launch made for some nonplussed reviews and gamer reaction.
Brent Nielsen has a corner office catching 270 degrees of Florida sunshine, and his face lights up whenever you tell him a good golf story. Especially one that happened inside the game he makes, Tiger Woods PGA Tour.
Last year’s sports video game of the year, the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series this year faces what NBA 2K12 did in October — a nearly impossible encore. Tiger Woods at last delivered The Masters, reviving a series that had plateaued and giving longtime golf fans moments and memories that were legitimately emotional.
I’ve played video games as seven-foot centres and hulking first basemen, I’ve probably pitched to or hit against the virtual counterpart of every Hall of Fame ballplayer who has appeared in the last 20 or so years. The idea of playing a sport as someone famous has well lost its novelty in the modern era of video games.
This is something that always confounded me. In the career mode of Tiger Woods PGA Tour, the fourth major championship is not The PGA Championship, but the “EA Sports Championship.”
After two rounds at The Masters, the 44 highest scores and ties, plus anyone within 10 strokes of the leader, make the cut. Since 2006, when the course was lengthened, no American amateur has survived to “Moving Day,” the nickname for Saturday’s round. Yesterday, I did so. As a woman.
That’s not to say I’ll be wearing no pants. Tomorrow is the launch of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 and today, like last year, I’ll be playing nine holes with the EA Sports Tiburon development team, and asking them questions about the new game, how they designed its new features, and why. Won’t you join us?
For years, EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour series has allowed gamers to create female golfers and play with them, even against all-male tournament fields, on any course and in any of the events licensed to appear in the game. Last year, Tiger Woods added The Masters Tournament, the event hosted by Augusta National Golf Club, notorious for its all-male membership.
