Digital Golfing: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters Game Review

Almost a month has passed.I started off as an amateur who would swing random clubs with random force in random directions. Yes I was a ‘random’ amateur golfer. And NO I haven’t won any tournament in a month’s time. But I have successfully completed the final level of the Electronic Arts Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters. Yes!! I have won the Masters.

The Tiger Woods PGA Tour soon had a monopoly in the digital world of golf after it was launched in 1998. Even though Tiger Woods’ reputation has gone all wrong Electronic Arts decided to keep him as their brand ambassador when Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters was released in March this year. The game is widely based on the Augusta National Golf Course with only parts of it based on St Andrews, Celtic Manor, Atlanta Athletic Club and other clubs. And the game as you can guess is based on The Masters tournament.

The career mode of Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters is The Masters Golf Tournament organized in Augusta National Golf Course. I started as an amateur golfer (as I said ‘Random’ Amateur Golfer) playing Nationwide golf tours. The game is very well engineered and progresses in a very ‘real’ way. If you are playing great and winning tournaments you can be sure of a rapidly rising career graph. But if your performance is poor and have performed poorly in the latest games only tweaks and cheats can save your dipping career graph in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. I had to play some of the courses twice or thrice in The Masters before I could score a significant score and in the process I got so well acquainted with these courses that a higher and more difficult game on such courses also appeared to be quite easy. Slowly and gradually by playing Nationwide tours, Q-School series and the PGA tour I finally had the chance to play The Masters. And even though I have won the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters I am so much in love with digital golfing, I keep playing solo, single player games.

What makes the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters even more interesting are features like sponsor challenges and sponsorships. You can win sponsorships which eventually lead to better equipment upgrades. There are often incidents when these sponsorship games irritate you as well. The Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters incorporates Tigers records of his past 4 Masters Victory and other golfers’ extraordinary shots that have to be rivaled and neaten to win The Masters. The visual caddy in the Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters is a great help too.