The award-winning gameplay of Hot Shots Golf returns with non-stop, fast-paced golf action. Join the new cast of characters who come to tee off on the greens and on each other with trash-talking quips. So lace up your spikes, set your sights on the flag and “be the ball.” Enhanced graphics deliver vibrant golf environments complete with simulated weather conditions that affect the flight of the ball and the speed of the greens while 15 off-the-wall characters, each with their own skills and characteristics and attitude, keep you busy! Platform: PlayStation 2 ESRB Rating: Everyone Genre: SportsForget tradition, collared shirts, and stuffy resorts–now you can express yourself on the golf course without the snobby attitude. Hot Shots Golf 3 offers nonstop, fast-paced golf action, with a smart-alecky, trash-talking cast of characters. The enhanced graphics deliver vibrant golf environments complete with simulated weather conditions that affect the flight of the ball and the speed of the greens. The new Swing Meter will test your skills with a variety of interfaces depending on the lie of the ball, whether it’s in the fairway, rough, tree line, dirt, or sand trap. From the morning mist through dusk, the Time of Day feature provides a realistic approximation of a full day at the golf course. There are no delays between holes, and no delay between the time you pick up the game and the moment you can start playing. However, there is still plenty of depth for golfers of any experience level. Earn Hot Shot Points for superb performances, then cash in your points for equipment and insane gadgets.
Product Features
- With a combination highly stylized graphics and realistic golf gaming will make you enjoy golf, even if you’ve never held a club in your life
- 15 unique charcters to choose from, including real-life player John Daly
- Funny and fantastic characters celebrate, complain, and taunt their fellow golfers on challenging photo-realistic courses
- Outstanding environmental design that you can alter — add trees, change the time of day and more
- Several different modes of play — Stroke, Tournament, Short Course, Vs. Mode and many more
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.
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.
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.