The Golf Club is a new golfing simulator that seeks to be the definitive golf experience on the newest generation of consoles. I got the chance to hit the virtual links on the PlayStation 4 from the comfort (using the term very loosely) of the E3 show floor.
The first thing I noticed was the graphical presentation. The visuals do not seem up to par with the professed power of the new generation of consoles. Taken on a whole, the picture is crisp and clear, but the courses feel dead. Things like flat plant textures and copy and pasted trees are observable without too much snooping. The character model in the demo – a stock character rather than a real life golfer – was average looking. He swung his club and whacked the golf ball convincingly but his inhuman stiffness failed to excite my aesthetic appetite.
Gameplay-wise, you use the R1 and L1 buttons to cycle between clubs and the right analog stick is used for the game’s swing mechanic. The interface tells you all you need to know about the current hole and wind conditions without being too daunting for casual players. The controls for a simulation title like this obviously cannot be mastered in a matter of minutes, so it came as no surprise to me that I sliced my first few strokes and took a while to finally land a ball on the fairway. One thing I noticed is that the direction of your swing is inverted, meaning if my finger on the analog stick leaned towards the left the ball would veer slightly to the right. Taking this – as well the wind – into account, I was eventually able to line up my shots with more accuracy.
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