Now in devlopment at EA Tiburon, the new Tiger changes golf forever. Sound familiar?
US, April 11, 2007 - This is the future of videogame golf.
After uploading your own picture and scanning your ugly mug onto a virtual golfer (and adding the mandatory pink mohawk), you head to St. Andrews. On 18, you unleash the big dog and smash a low, burning drive. Your ball ricochets off the famous stone bridge, skyrocketing into the air before landing on a spectator's head, knocking him to the ground.
Before you can wipe the grin off your face you save a replay and upload it to EA's new GamerNet to share the clip with your friends. Then you throw down the challenge. Your friend downloads the clip, thinks he can do better, and jumps right onto the 18th and hits his own drive off the bridge and a fan's dome and earns 100 GamerNet points.
Back at EA Tiburon, a designer sees this hilarious shot and makes it the Shot of the Day. Other gamers check out the shot and try it for themselves. Soon the off-the-bridge-and-fan shot is the most downloaded shot of the week and jumps up the GamerNet leaderboards. Soon, thousands of Tiger 08 gamers around the world are bouncing balls off the bridge, earning points and moving themselves up the GamerNet leaderboards.
This is the future, and it's hitting the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this summer courtesy of EA Tiburon. Yes, the studio that Madden built has taken over the vaunted golf franchise and, as you can see, the development team has been busy. This week in Orlando, Fla., we saw GamerNet and Photo Face firsthand, two innovative new features that EA hopes will recharge Tiger, an excellent franchise that like, say, Winning Eleven, has begun to rest on its laurels. That stops here.
GamerNet clearly targets the YouTube and MySpace generation. Gamers, EA says, have changed. We play online, we share pictures and video clips, we fight for achievement points and gamer score and virtual trophies. Using a nifty new technology, the development team, formerly of Hypnotix and Outlaw Golf fame, has enabled you to save a single shot, a single hole, nine holes or an entire round to your hard drive (18 holes takes up only 200k). And with a touch of a button, you can upload all of this to GamerNet in a matter of seconds.
If you want to read more and see a few shots go here
US, April 11, 2007 - This is the future of videogame golf.
After uploading your own picture and scanning your ugly mug onto a virtual golfer (and adding the mandatory pink mohawk), you head to St. Andrews. On 18, you unleash the big dog and smash a low, burning drive. Your ball ricochets off the famous stone bridge, skyrocketing into the air before landing on a spectator's head, knocking him to the ground.
Before you can wipe the grin off your face you save a replay and upload it to EA's new GamerNet to share the clip with your friends. Then you throw down the challenge. Your friend downloads the clip, thinks he can do better, and jumps right onto the 18th and hits his own drive off the bridge and a fan's dome and earns 100 GamerNet points.
Back at EA Tiburon, a designer sees this hilarious shot and makes it the Shot of the Day. Other gamers check out the shot and try it for themselves. Soon the off-the-bridge-and-fan shot is the most downloaded shot of the week and jumps up the GamerNet leaderboards. Soon, thousands of Tiger 08 gamers around the world are bouncing balls off the bridge, earning points and moving themselves up the GamerNet leaderboards.
This is the future, and it's hitting the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this summer courtesy of EA Tiburon. Yes, the studio that Madden built has taken over the vaunted golf franchise and, as you can see, the development team has been busy. This week in Orlando, Fla., we saw GamerNet and Photo Face firsthand, two innovative new features that EA hopes will recharge Tiger, an excellent franchise that like, say, Winning Eleven, has begun to rest on its laurels. That stops here.
GamerNet clearly targets the YouTube and MySpace generation. Gamers, EA says, have changed. We play online, we share pictures and video clips, we fight for achievement points and gamer score and virtual trophies. Using a nifty new technology, the development team, formerly of Hypnotix and Outlaw Golf fame, has enabled you to save a single shot, a single hole, nine holes or an entire round to your hard drive (18 holes takes up only 200k). And with a touch of a button, you can upload all of this to GamerNet in a matter of seconds.
If you want to read more and see a few shots go here
