Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play

Product Description

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Everyone Plays, Anyone Can Win

Whether you're a seasoned veteran or hitting the links for the first time, now everybody swings on an even playing field in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 All-Play. Your career begins under the watchful eye of Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' real-life coach, who takes you under his wing, helps you tune your clubs, and provides training drills to help improve your game. With experience under your belt and confidence as your ally, take aim at family, friends, and rivals in fun and challenging game modes, including the new Golf Party mini-game mode. With improved swing mechanics, an all-new controller system, and tutelage from one of the game's best coaches, play your way to the top of the leaderboard with Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 All-Play.

Key Features EA SPORTS All-Play-An all-new controller system allows golfers of all skill levels to play on an even playing field, removing the guesswork as the game shows you exactly where your ball will travel before every shot. All-New Golf Party Mode-Battle your friends in 15 fun and challenging mini-games that keep the competition fierce, long after you have finished your round. All-New Performance Coach-Tiger Woods' real-life coach, Hank Haney, guides you through your career by assessing your performance and providing tips to increase your skills. Maximize Your Swing-Get the most out of every club with the Club Tuner, an all-new swing control feature that allows you to calibrate your clubs to fit your personal tendencies and preferences. All-New Online Simultaneous Play-For the first time on the Nintendo Wii, compete with a live foursome in the time it takes to play a single-player round. Ball trail visuals indicate your competitors' shots, allowing you to swing whenever you're ready. New Courses and Golfers-Test your skills on new courses, including Gary Player Country Club in South Africa, Wentworth Country Club in England, and more, while international stars Se Ri Pak, Darren Clarke, and others join the competition.

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Improved ov 08 (Tod Kehrli, Glenmoore, PA United States, 2009-01-01)

This version is an improvement over TW08

- Navigation through the Tiger Challenge is way better
- Overall swing is better, especially draw and fade
- Online play allows a full round that doesn't take hours to complete
- Good new courses

I would disagree with complaints about short game and putting. It took me about 30 minutes to figur out the new putting and now I putt as good as ever. With the short game, as your sklls imporve in the game, yor precision with short shots improves. Just like real golf.

I think EA is getting better with the WII interface and it shows with this verion of TW.

WII Tiger Woods 09 (C. Richards, North Smithfield, RI USA, 2008-12-29)

Purcahsed the Tiger Woods 09 for the kids(12 & 16) for Christmas and it has been a ball having match play events all over the world. Yes, the putting is not easy to master but it does come with time. Much better than previous versions of this game. As a low handicap golfer what I love is that the swing you need to play the game really does emmulate a real golf swing. Great tempo trainer for me during the long cold winters here in the Northeast. My only real complaint is that it is hard to manage not hitting 100%+ shots all the time. So be prepared to fly over the green many times. Again this too comes with time and practice.

Great Game !!

Are you serious? (L. Sieler, 2008-12-28)

TW 09 on the Wii could be a phenomenal game without too much work. In it's current form, it's almost unplayable.

I'll spare the good points, all the other reviewers hit on that pretty well. And I'm not jaded by the putting changes between 08 and 09--09 is my first golf game for an avid golfer for the past 15 years.

The problem with this game is the short game. In real golf, the short game--50 yds from the pin and in--is AT LEAST 50% of game. That's right, HALF of golf depends on the short game.

Which begs the question why in TW 09 the short game (including putting) is so attrociously bad. Nearly impossible to hit a reliable short pitch with less than a full swing or any kind of chip that land and roll with any semblance of realism.

And putting, oh my. The putting system can be figured out and made to work if you dig online for enough tips. The putting system is poorly conceived and executed, evidenced by the fact you evidently carry as many as 5 or 6 different putters in your bag. That alone should have disqualified the game as anything worthy of release.

Bottom line, the short game stinks, the putting is terrible, and those things make the game, in it's current form, UNFUN!!

Tiger Woods should be forced to play this game for 100 hours.

I almost didn't buy this (David D. Bunn, Wilson,NC, 2008-12-27)

After reading the reviews I almost didn't buy tiger woods 2009 for my wii for fear putting was as bad so many reviewers described.
So glad that I went ahead and purchased tw09 because this game ROCKS! Very intuitive play and the putting is straight forward. My first complete round I shot 6 over par and thats been the worst so far.
I've spent many hours playing against my 7yr old daughter and ALLPLAY allows her to be competive with me.

If you dig on Golfing, and have a wii.... this game is a must have addition.

So so (Kathryn S. Gibbs, Tn, 2008-12-26)

I gave this game as a gift - so I don't own a Wii but I watched the recipient play & it was boring to watch and play - he said it was difficult to figure out how to play and the "club" was not accurate to a real golf swing. Meh!