Tour of the PGA Tour 2K21 (PS4) - in the drink

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It is difficult to believe that we are more than five years away from the Rory McElroy PGA Tour debar. In what was a catastrophic failure, the last golf game produced by EA Sports failed to flow. The most frustrating for the dedicated faithful of Tiger Woods was that despite all the experience accumulated by EA for more than a decade to make golf simulations, the PGA Tour of McElroy was simply a bad representation of sport.

But since 2018, HE Studios produces a picturesque, otherwise rough golf experience on the edges, in The Golf Club. And while the different editions have been published to date have not been able to scratch the itching of Tiger Woods who harassed the fans since the late 2000s, 2K games seek to remedy there. Intervene, take the bull by the horns and rename The Golf Club as a new PGA Tour 2K series is an exciting gesture for a generally hungry fans base. The prospect of seeing a sport that I like — a sport that ends up in front of the MLB or NFL — Receive this 2K AAA treatment, completely reaped me.

It is therefore unfortunate that the PGA Tour 2K21 is nothing more than a tribute to the future potential. This game has never been the hole-one that we wanted it to be.

Golf is a beautiful sport. The serene and breathtaking nature of world-renowned fairways like Augusta National, Pine Valley or Cypress Point is something you can only understand once you have traveled their land. But that's why we play video games — to live something that it is otherwise impossible to be part. PGA Tour 2K21 fails to capture the unique beauty offered by golf. Do not get me wrong, it does not look terrible. But on the fifteen courses proposed, none better than the golf games of the early 2010. The assets are bland, most textures that do not have the kind of detail you expect from a modern title. The lighting is repairable and some pleasant shadow effects add to the general feel. But having the well lit things works almost against HE Studios here because it illuminates the rest of the gaps of the PGA Tour 2K21. The character models are ridiculously terrifying, with crowds, in particular, which seem insulting. Each of the professionally dismissed professionals is more rigid and clumsy than the previous one. See a Jim Fury plastic with wide-eyed me hitting with finger guns after a 37 feet putt me forever.

However, I can withstand ugly graphics in any sports simulation, provided that the emotion of the game is properly represented. But that's another aspect on which PGA Tour 2K21 lacks the target. The fans present react (a little) correctly to each of your clichés, but so many other elements that make high issues are totally absent. Winning seems disappointing because the victory does not equal to anything more than receiving a picture of a trophy. Seriously, you hardly celebrate after running on the 18th. The comment is irritating or missed and often fails to create the thrill of making a clutch birdie, or the agony of a devastating bogey.

In addition to this, routine audio bugs will occur, pulling you completely with your suspension of incredulity. I admit that there are brilliant moments between the Rich Been and Luke Envy comments team, as when both laugh at a future charitable event. But the contextual commentary is seriously disabled. Most of the time, this will be summarized at vague and no purpose statements like: This player spends an excellent day!

You will probably agree that the brilliance and glamour of a golf game are secondary to the way it is played. Although HE Studios has a long way to go in the presentation department, it is undeniable that they captured a large part of the satisfaction that comes with the nailing of your clichés. Driving, approaching, chipping and putting everything is fantastic and accurately reproduces the excitement of an adequate assessment, for example, of a difficult by-5. I do not remember the last time I had so much pleasure to improve my game and to see a real improvement thanks to nothing more than applied knowledge. Of course, there are club upgrades that can bring slight differences to things like power or accuracy. But these have never had the impression of making a real and tangible difference. PGA Tour 2K21 can be totally ruthless. It takes time to become good. So when I finished my second round at TPC Boston with three shots less than the first time, I knew it was because I was just a better golfer. And it's extremely satisfactory.

HE Studios has built an incredibly solid basis to further develop the series. And although this is largely thanks to the gameplay, a huge sales argument of the 2K Golf series, in the future, will be the creator of the course. Put these tools in the hands of the community, infuse the vital force created by the user at the heart of your game? Brilliant, a blow of genius. But in addition to that, the execution is great. Once you are deep — by placing trees, creating dangers, shaping the Greens — you realize how powerful the creative tool. This is by far the most exciting part of the PGA Tour 2K21, and I can not wait to see what other players will offer.

Now it's true that I had fun perfecting my game and build the course of my dreams. But I would like to mention it not to mention that there is also something weighing on my mind, something that... President About Play PGA Tour 2K21. After nearly twenty hours in my career mode, I was struck by a debilitating and revolutionary bug without rhyme nor reason. To my astonishment, the decline has stopped working, almost entirely. In all modes. CAUTION, do not tie too much to your data because the solution was to delete my file and start again. I can not act like that, stacking on the comments for the most part, the audio bugs, the serious presentation problems and the bare bones campaign, have not buried almost all the pleasures I pulled from the game.

Between some of the most frustrating moments I had with any type of game for some time, the PGA Tour 2K21 broke up with brilliant optimism and full of hope. As long as it worked, touching the links and slaughtering a few holes was as good as ever. And the course creator is one of the best things I've seen arriving at a sport game for a long time. But it's hard to recommend something that has chewed and spit almost a day of my life, do not let me show anything. In any case, there is no doubt that the newly invigorated series, and now old, Golf Club is at the foot of a mountain made of potential. However, this can be a sacred mounted to reach the summit.

Good

Shooting is extremely satisfactory Course creator The future is brilliant for PGA fans

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The bad

Revolutionary bugs Lack of Polish presentation Win feel anticlimactic

Extremely successful comment or missed