![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Literally heading these up is the new Game Face II set of features, which enable you to create a golfer customised to an absolutely ludicrous degree, far in excess of any other character customisation tool we can recall, and that includes stuff we've seen in 700 variations on The Sims over the years. The main theme this year, as it turns out, is customisation - of people, of courses, even of your own golf swing. Ahead of getting our hands on some online-enabled code in the run-up to the game's late September release, we've been investigating some of the buzzwords on this year's fact sheet, and trying out some of the new courses. ![]() In other words, the rest of the game, which is shaping up to be, well, just about whatever you fancy shaping it to be. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 will very definitely make up for this in one way or another - the 'one way' being the inclusion of those online options, including tournaments, leagues and stat tracking for skins, capture the flag, best ball and other modes, on PS2 and Xbox and 'another' being the various things we've been tinkering with in our preview build this week. At least we were - none of our mates were all that keen on "popping over for a quick round before work," even if they were always partial post-pub. But we're not giving EA that, because we wanted to play it online, and it seems inconceivable that while our yankee pals were invited to do so, we were forced to potter around offline in solitude. Of course, the 2004 vintage was actually fantastic - a well-worked expansion of existing principles that introduced real-time events (for which we still fire it up on occasion), a full PGA Tour, and lots of other bells and whistles to a stick-driven golf game that already looked and handled far better than any of the others. Having tee-sed us with the prospect of online play last year and then dropped it into a bunker at the last minute with very little warning, EA Sports has some work to do this year with its Tiger Woods franchise if it wants to regain our trust. And, no, we have no idea what's going through their heads either. Since this preview was published, EA has confirmed that the Xbox version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 will not feature online support in Europe, but the PS2 version will. ![]()
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