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![]() What keeps golfers coming back, aside from the always excellent core golf, is Coins and Pins. As usual, XP unlocks new clothes, clubs, and other stat-boosting and cosmetic accessories. The journey emphasizes the value of growing from amateur to pro, especially when placing high in the first Masters tournament a couple hours in. Character progression is directly proportionate to the player's understanding of Total Swing Control. Really, the standard career mode is where Tiger 13 is at its best. Textures and shadows don't always load when they should, instead popping into existence as the ball approaches their area. It certainly reflects the countless days a world-class athlete spends preparing for a life of championships, but must the player experience these events in seeming real-time? Amidst the modes and better gameplay, Tiger 13 suffers certain technical issues. Instead, it wastes itself on a punitive, pointless chore checklist. The dozens of mundane tasks fail to capitalize on their greatest opportunity: to make players appreciate an incredible athlete's accomplishments, inspirations, and milestones. In terms of great new features, the Tiger Legacy Challenge should have been one of the coolest in the franchise. Either way, it's no fun to retry the same shot dozens of times with nothing to show for it, so the tedium of Tiger Legacy is equal parts fruitless and frustrating. Maybe it's a metaphor for Tiger's intense training with his obsessive mentor and father. Rather than help those learning an unfamiliar system, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 stays silent while its audience teaches itself. Woods' handbag demands precision, and Tiger 13 doesn't explain what players may be doing wrong if they miss the tiny target. Failing to complete tedious tasks leads to lots of restarting. There's a strange structure here, though. Legacy begins with a two-year-old Tiger learning to golf with his dad in their backyard, progressing through tournaments as an adolescent, and winning world championships during adulthood. The closest thing to a tutorial is the Tiger Legacy Challenge, a series of increasingly difficult events from Tiger Woods' life. It's unfair of EA to overhaul the entire swing system in this way and leave its audience in trial-and-error agony. The text explanation in the menus isn't clear, and the absence of any explicit instructions makes the learning process a pain. Total Swing Control always leads to one of two things: Extreme self-satisfaction, or unrestrained self-loathing. However a shot shakes out, the responsibility is always in the hands of whoever made it happen. On the other hand, a backswing lacking confidence could send the ball trailing off into the trees, or throw it into the water. Tiger 13 encourages improvisation through experimentation, so players truly earn it when they nail a shot. There are no guides to tell players the correct way to play anymore. Red means Tiger's swinging outside the lines. Yes, it's as complicated as it sounds, and no, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 does not do a good job of explaining how to use it. When a golfer follows through, the speed of their swing, as controlled by jamming the stick forward, contributes to the overall effect of the backswing and the distance a ball will travel. Pulling it slightly left or right leads to wider or tighter arcs which dictate the direction of the ball. Holding the backswing too long or not long enough means under/overswinging. ![]() ![]() Numerous control factors within the backswing change the trajectory of each shot. Simple enough, but this is where things get complicated. Pulling straight down on the stick puts the player's club along that track. A handy white arc around the golfer indicates the ideal backswing form. Tiger Woods 13 demands much more on the green, fairway, or tee. In past years, accounting for the lean of the green and smacking the ball as hard as instructed guaranteed a perfect putt. Every subtle gesture during a swing affects where the ball goes, so the how and why of each shot falls square on the player's shoulders. Pre-set shot types and shot meters don't exist anymore. Left stick movement dictates 100% of how a shot behaves. Total Swing Control is far and away the most meaningful addition to the PGA Tour series since it joined this generation of consoles. ![]()
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