Tiger Woods
PGA Tour 2004

I'm a big fan of Golf games, I'm not sure why as I'm not a fan of golf but there you go. I figured this would be a case of playing Tiger and not much else but you actually get to choose who you want to play out of a selection including the likes of Tiger (obviously), John Daly, Solita Lopez and a few others. As well as the choices available to you here you also get quite a few big name courses including St Andrews which I mention purely because I live in Scotland and it's the home of Golf... apparently. There's weather options, hole options, infact there's more options than you can poke a golf club at....

Controlling your golfer actually is not that disimilar to some of the console titles that use a control pad, the direction pad is used to swing, 'down' to ready the swing and a well timed 'up' to hit the ball. You can also add variations to the swing such as slicing it or hooking it etc. All in all the controls are ok and not overly complicated but they could be better, still there should be no pulling contorted faces as you squeeze in a few rounds of golf on the commute to work

Graphically Tiger Woods PGA Tour is sweet but it is at the end of the day 'just' another golf title, you've got your usual behind the player swing shots, your overhead map view so you can see where the ball is likely to go, your course graphic screens to add to the feel and so on and so forth.

Sound ... well... it's a golf game, what do you want / expect me to say? Swoosh, plop etc. Being a golf game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 doesn't come with an amazing soundtrack but it does have occasional voiceovers, which are tinny and unclear and would probably have been better left out. There's also the usual looped music.

Gameplay is actually very engaging. Even though it doesn't feel like you're really using much skill overall to make your shots, the game does play well and it is fun as far as golf games go. I'm not sure it's the kind of game you'd want to play for hours and hours on end but it certainly would occupy you whilst you're on the move. Now and again you'll be a little confused at why one shot didn't work when the last one did but this is very rare so nothing worth worrying about.

Multiplayer is partially as yet un reviewed since sadly I only have one copy of the game so multiple handset multi player is away out the window, however, and this is where Tiger Woods is pretty sweet, you can play multi player with one handset just passing it between you and your pal between shots... nice.

Female Gamer Angle is catered for by the way of Solita Lopez, a female character whose stats aren't that great unfortunately but at least shes a woman. The game itself isn't really aimed more at one gender than another and theres plenty there to keep both sexes interested.

Overall Tiger Woods PGA isn't a bad game, it just isn't a brilliant game either. Golf enthusiasts with an N-Gage have little choice given this is presently the N-Gage's only foray into the sport but at least you're not getting stuck with a complete turkey, it is an above average title and you'll have fun with the single player mode unlocking extras etc, provided of course you can get to grips with that directional pad swing.