The Aussie-made Golf Story is choc full of great quips and one liners. But when you get to the end of the game, there’s a great little tribute reminding players where Golf Story came from.
As you travel from course to course in Golf Story, you might notice that the landscape looks a little … familiar. You never get to see the full picture until the very end of the game, but when you do, you’ll immediately recognise where Sidebar Games drew inspiration from:
The developers are based out of Queensland, which probably explains why that part of the Golf Story map is a course that’s almost 99% bunkers. Nonetheless, it’s a nice, direct tribute to Australia in a game. And it’s also infinitely more accurate than the last major recreation of Australia in a video game:
[referenced url=”https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/06/forza-horizon-3-is-a-bit-confused-about-australia/” thumb=”https://www.kotaku.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/06/forza-410×231.jpg” title=”Forza Horizon 3 Is A Bit Confused About Australia” excerpt=”So Forza Horizon 3 is set in Australia. That might be one of the coolest pieces of news to come out of E3 this year. But man, have you seen what Forza’s version of Australia looks like?”]
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