Comments on: Hot Shots Golf 3

By: Joe Sherry

Joe Sherry — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:52:56 +0000

wow! Great game! I’ve tried several golf games over the years, on each of the systems I’ve owned (NES, SNES, PSX, PS2). I’ve also played a couple of different golf games on the PC. While the golf physics have been fairly consistent throughout the years, one thing most of the games have lacked is a “fun factor”. After one or two rounds of 18, most golf games have lost the replay value. One factor for this happening was that it took so long to complete a round of golf.

By: mptesteroni

mptesteroni — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:48:43 +0000

More of the same from 1 and (I guess)2… more, so MUCH more I don’t understand myself. I’ve never played golf on a course, and I don’t really care to start, but I’m a sucker for video game golf. So, many moons ago, I happily tucked Hot Shots Golf (the PSX original) into my collection of epileptic-seizure-inducing-titanic-explosion-giant-robot-espionage-assault-blast-fests and played the heck out of it. I never got #2 but I really dug #1. I truly loved gathering points to unlock all the courses, and prided myself on my eventual learned ability to beat each computer player. It was a unique video game experience in that I wasn’t just figuring out how to use the program’s quirks against it, how to cheat some line of AI code into trapping itself into a no-win situation and then blasting away at it, no– I was learning the ins, outs, ups and downs of How to Play Golf. I learned how to read the lie of the green, how to play with or against the wind for a few more yards or a little less roll. I felt like I was actually accomplishing something while I sat …in my living room. As if I was somehow preparing myself for the original white-man retirement inevitability– a bag full of clubs on a 12-pack Sunday.

By: flaviolius

flaviolius — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:19:12 +0000

As Fun As Fun Can Get Let’s get one thing straight: I’ve never given two shakes about golf, either in real-life or video game form. I’d never played a golf game until Hot Shots Golf 3. This review will show my lack of knowledge about the sport, and will contain no comparisons to Swing Away Golf, Tiger Woods 2002, Tee Off Golf, or even the first two Hot Shots games, because I’ve never spent one second playing any of them. In fact, being Golf Ignoramus #1, I may seem like the least qualified person in the universe to review this game.