I’m not a sporty person. In the last 10 years, my exposure to physical training and activity has been limited to jogging, swimming, and all those training sessions in the IPT program in order to fulfill my yearly NS IPPT obligation LOL.
But there’s been a couple of sports games I’ve taken to on the PS3, so here’s the first in the series of ‘virtual’ sports I’ve been getting into. Starting off with, well, golf.:)
The above is from Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. No, I haven’t got a clue what golfing is about prior to my getting introduced via these games, nor Tiger Woods is apart from that he keeps showing up in those expensive watch commercials. But after getting inducted, I now have an inkling what words like double and triple bogeys, ‘par’, and ‘birdie’ mean. And I finally know what’s the difference between irons and putters!
And the other golfing game I tried my hand on was Everybody’s Golf 5:
No kidding… the entire thing is very Japanese cute-anime character-esque! Think, girly voices as though they’re sucking helium. Ling saw me having a go at this game the other night and she remarked “Wah darling. This game is so… Gina..!”
And she’s right on that. No way I’m ever gonna be caught dead outside home playing this LOL. The visuals are beautiful, colorfully vibrant if in a cartoony sort of way, and from what I’ve gathered, the golf physics and mechanisms are pretty in-depth. Heck, Matt says that Everybody’s Golf is the game he plays a lot of LOL.
That said, I’ve only been playing the short demo versions, but fortunately both games are available on retail here in Singapore at pretty attractive price-points. So who knows: once I’m tired of shooting terrorists in Rainbow Six Vegas, I’ll pick either one of these up for the full experience.:)
I suck so bad at real-life golf that nothing but the most cartoon-y video game facsimile can calm those agonizing memories of attempting to play the real thing. The realistically rendered golfers in Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘09 would simply induce within me debilitating flashbacks, whereas the cutesy, anime-like characters in Everybody’s Golf are never worse than slightly annoying. :)
Haha! It’s too bad that the music and helium voices in the game makes Ling’s hair stand, so most likely I’ll just go with Tiger Woods PGA Tour instead.:)