What do sepia tones and '70's Technicolor have to do with the Tiger Woods PGA Tour golf franchise? Plenty in 2013, it turns out, thanks to Tiger 14's new Legends of the Masters mode, where you take your created golfer through a timeline that dates from the 1930s through today.
"It starts you back at the dawn of golf and takes you up through the current day," says EA Tiburon producer Mike DeVault.
It's not unlike last year's Tiger Challenge mode. You'll start in the '30s with Bobby Jones and continue forward to face off in scenarios based on actual championships from each era against the likes of Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Gary Player, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and the 2001 (read: pre-knee injury, pre-Thanksgiving night car crash) version of Tiger Woods himself.
Bobby Jones: basically the Babe Ruth of golf before Nicklaus became the Henry Aaron.
More interestingly, the ball, club, and course physics are all different in each era because, well...the balls and clubs sucked back then compared to what they are now. Balls didn't bounce the same way and the clubs gave golfers a different loft and shape.
The best part about this? All four Majors are now playable for the first time in a Tiger Woods game.
"[Tiger Woods] definitely still works with us," EA says.
Other interesting features about the new game (releasing March 26) include a day/night cycle that lets you play anytime from early morning to nighttime (complete with glow-in-the-dark balls!), 20 on-disc courses out of the box, Country Club tweaks like a higher member cap (100 people instead of 25) and a club chat feature, and 35 total licensed golfers, including female golfers from the LPGA tour.
We'll never play golf half as well as Jack plays it at today at age 72.
And what of Tiger himself? After all these years of having his name on the game, does Woods still have any input on it, or does he just cash his check and smile? "He definitely still works with us," DeVault assures us. "Every year he's always had at least one or two with us. He's always providing feedback, especially when we started with the Kinect and Move [last year]. We actually used him quite a bit for the Kinect and Move implementation."
Before we could let DeVault go, we had just one more burning question: Can the EA Tiburon developers on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour team expense golf outings back to the company as "research trips"? DeVault only laughed and replied, "Honestly I've never tried. We should!"
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Source : ign[dot]com
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