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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06

Our family has been enjoying the EA Tiger Woods PGA Tour series for several years now on the PC, but this is our first encounter with a console version. We wanted to try it out on the console, to see which version we like better. Well, while there are differences between the two, each of the versions are of such great quality that all we can say is that we love them both!

With each passing year, as reliable as the change in the season, we see EA return with a new, more polished golfing game. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 builds incrementally on half a decade of refinements, but it also tries to make it something altogether new. To accomplish this, EA has overhauled the presentation, the modes, and even the swing mechanics. The end result is a mix of true advancements and superficial ones. It largely feels like the update you'd expect, with some stylistic changes. In a way, this should be taken as a good sign that EA hasn't changed things so much that it will jar the millions of Tiger fans out of the experience they've learned to love. However, given that everything is still so familiar at the core, there's no way of getting around the feeling that all these new options are ultimately still baby steps in the evolution of the franchise.

When I think about it, my obsessive collecting of equipment in Tiger's career mode is really what keeps me going, not old golfers. So what did EA do? Perhaps sensing that it had hit a wall with this mode, the developer turned to the gameplay and gave us a (kinda) new way to play a series that was quickly becoming stale. It's not a revolution, but it's an improvement.

Sans prendre le risque de revoir leur copie, les concepteurs de cet opus 2006 de Tiger Woods PGA Tour ont tout de même rajouté pas mal de petites choses qui se répercutent sur les modes de jeu mais aussi sur le gameplay, encore plus technique qu'avant. A vous de voir si tout cela justifie d'investir à nouveau dans une énième mouture si vous possédez déjà une version précédente. Dans tous les cas, on peut être assuré que la série ne s'arrêtera pas en si bon chemin.

Hitting the links is still a blast, but I don't like the new putting mechanic and the overall quality of the game has deteriorated since the stellar 2004 entry.

Through five console iterations and more sugarcoating than a Krispy Kreme donut, EA has finally made some actual changes in the final current-generation installment of the Tiger Woods franchise. It is still far from revolutionary, but Tiger Woods PGA Tour '06 is the virtual golfer's best bet for a realistic round out on the links.

Whatever professional problems Tiger Woods had over the past handful of years have seemingly dissipated, and with them goes any doubt that Woods is once again the premier golfer on the planet. Part of the "problem" with Tiger's game during his difficult times, according to the pundits, had been attributed to his new swing which, they said, fundamentally changed his approach and thus damaged his game. Interestingly, the very golf game to which Tiger lends his name has seen a similar change in its swing system as well. Yet unlike the real Tiger, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 doesn't seem to be reaping the full benefits of this switch just yet.