Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 DVD | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 1509
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Genre: Golf Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5
MPN: 15356
UPC: 014633153569
EAN: 0014633153569
ASIN: B000OPOCFU
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Confidence Is a Factor—The all-new Shot Confidence feature uses factors from your previous rounds—including club selection, lie, hole, and more—to determine your confidence heading into each shot. | | • | PGA TOUR Mode—Build a golfer from the ground up in the most in-depth Career mode ever. Go from an inexperienced rookie to a crafty TOUR veteran on your way to becoming the world’s most dominant golfer. | | • | FedEx Cup Playoff Courses—Experience the all-new FedEx Cup championship format by playing a dream round at Westchester Country Club, TPC Boston, Cog Hill, and East Lake. | | • | Take on the Most PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour Pros—Featuring the greatest PGA TOUR and LPGA Tour pros, including Tiger Woods, John Daly, and Vijay Singh, plus Annika Sorenstam, Natalie Gulbis, Christie Kerr, and Morgan Pressel. |
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Product Description
EA Games Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08 (for PC): For the first time ever, find out who truly is the world's greatest golfer. In Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08 , all of your golf game is recorded: from the first tee box in Play Now mode, to your final putt in a FedExCup tournament. Shot Confidence tracks your performance on every hole, round and golf course. Based on key factors, including club selection, hole, lie and more, dig into past performances with the Confidence Meter to identify strengths and weaknesses before every shot. Experience the all-new FedExCup championship format by playing a dream round of golf at Westchester Country Club, TPC Boston, Cog Hill, and East Lake. Challenge the greatest PGA Tour pros, including Tiger Woods, John Daly and Vijay Singh, plus LPGA Tour pros such as Annika Sorenstam, Natalie Gulbis, Christie Kerr and Morgan Pressel.
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 Not Good For Vista November 19, 2009
AZ Steve
Have had software problems from day 1 on Vista operating system. Game will abnormally shut down
or abend without any notice. I went to microsoft site to find applicable updates that might stop it but nothing is working.
At this stage the game is mostly worthless and not worth the trouble it takes to try to finish a round.
 Let me play November 19, 2009
Kathleen S. Budd
I love the Tiger Woods series,this is my third. I bought a new pc with tons of speed and capacity,but the game keeps crashing.I raraely get to finish a round that doesn't crash or present incomplete renderings,or have the avatar disappear completely. I never had this sort of problem before with a much smaller and slower computer.Ea Sports and microsoft should figure this one out together.
 Tiger Woods 08 November 5, 2009
John M. Featherston (Nashville, TN)
Can't play it on my PC. Won't accept VISTA but I've been able to use it on a more updated system. Love the graphics & action!
Wake up, EA. I expected much more. October 20, 2009
djb (North Carolina)
I had an older version (2004) and figured it was time to upgrade.
I can't really say it was worth it. The main benefits are more courses.
However, I expected a much better improvement in the product, and this
game is really just a warmed over version. Although it runs at 1680x105 to
match my widescreen, the graphics are just not that great. The gallery watching
the golfers is a complete laugh. Compared to some racing sims (GRID, EA's own
Need for Speed Shift), the graphics of this slow paced golf game are a couple
years behind state of the art in realism.
The game has some true annoyances. When playing a full round against other (computer) players, you have to wait for agonizing player motions, ball flight, etc. It's like they are trying to make a round take 4-5 hours like a real game. You can hit ESC to skip past some things, but this becomes very tedious.
Worse, when playing a round in PGA Tour mode, there are agonizing delays after completing a hole everything freezes up for 6-10 seconds, then finally a scorecard comes up. I've turned off the options for commentator voice overs, crowd reaction, golfer reactions (the stupid dancing/prancing the golfer does, including a break-dance like spin on the ground...) and still nothing... happens... for... many... seconds... after... finishing... a... hole...
There are missing features that seem like no-brainers:
There is no swing analyzer. After hooking a shot, there is no way to see what you did wrong. It should show a graphic of your actual mouse motion so you can see where you deviated from a straight pullback or other motion. One easy error is not holding the mouse perfectly straight when swinging - if the mouse is at an angle, you'll get a bad swing. Similarly, there appears to be no training for learning how to adjust the swing if you want to add a draw or fade.
When you play a great hole or a great round, you cannot save it for replay later.
The game does save your best shot or best but, but (in PGA Tour mode), once you finish a hole, you can't return to the previous hole and replay it or save one or all of the shots. If you hole in from 160 yards out, too bad; you can't save that shot. (If that was the longest hole-in, it will save that automatically.)
The game offers "confidence training" - a chance to practice on previous holes after completing a tournament round. When you complete this, a very confusing graphic shows your last four scores on the hole, etc. but it flashes up, then disappears before you can really see what it says, and there seems to be no way to bring it back.
The player customization is pretty poor - again, no major improvements in 4 years of new release. You can't use the keyboard to scroll through the various options (like clubs, clothing, etc.) and when buying clothing (i.e. buying clothes made by your sponsor), you select the item then a Preview this Item button to see how it looks... and then the preview sits there, doing nothing for several sections, then selection is lost (reverts back to your current item).
The "price model" of the merchandise is nowhere close to reality ($500 for a pair of shoes pants, $150 for a hat...) and travel costs to tournaments really sap your budget at $2,000 to $8,000 per tournament. If you don't win, you can quickly run out of money.
Oh, you also must have the DVD inserted to play the game. Please!
I really wish EA would take this game seriously and make significant improvements based on actually playing the game instead of promoting golfers and branded merchandise.
I needed a game that would run on 64 Bit machine. October 14, 2009
RoyBlaze
I have an old version of Links which is the prior version of Tiger Woods. It would not run on my 64 Bit machine so I looked for a reasonably priced version that would work on a 64 bit machine. This seemed like it and I was pleasantly surprised that it was indeed the one I wanted. Another great leap was being able to do strokes with the mouse. The only drawback is having to have the DVD in the drive to play, because of this I bought a second copy to use in case the DVD is damaged. At $10.00 a copy it is a bargin.
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