Overview:

It’s a golf game for the Nintendo GameCube.  That’s about all the setup there should be but if you need more, here it is.  You take control of either Tiger Woods or a bunch of random characters and can play a multitude of different golf games.  Do you like to see who gets the lowest score?  CHECK!  Actually, I don’t know what else there is since usually that’s the only game mode we used to play.  The courses are also out there in that they can be famous ones or just crazy Scottish Highlands with hundreds of feet in drop.  Could these be real?  Maybe, but I’m guessing they’re not.

Visuals:

Maybe I have rose tinted glasses on, but I think this game still looks good.  You have to set your expectations low since this is a game from 2002 but for what it is it does it really well.  The characters all look like they’re supposed to look and the courses all have their own unique style to them you’ll start dreading when jungles or ruins pop up.  The game does also add some little visual touches to the hits by channeling The Matrix or Happy Gilmore which were contemporaries at the time.

Audio:

I have mixed feelings about this one.  This was the time when Electronic Arts was putting EA Trax in everything so you get a hodgepodge of random rap rock from that time period which really doesn’t fit so, long ago, I turned it off.  Only to replace it with my GOOD rap rock of that time period.  Very hypocritical.  The rest of the sounds are really well.  I love the crowd noises they make as well as the ambient sounds of the courses.  The commentary is alright and repetitive but you’ll start blocking it out after a while.

Completion:

You wouldn’t think you could complete a sports game but I feel I’ve done it.  My created character is maxed out and has millions in the bank because he can’t buy anymore.  I’ve hit holes in one, eagles, etc. so I really don’t have any worlds to conquer.  Yet, I keep coming back to this game for a quick 18 because it is so good.  My friends and I used to play this all the time back in college so there is that nostalgia but I feel this is just a really good golf game.