Platform: Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Me
Condition: Pre-Owned/Used in Very Good Condition
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Product Information
Realistic golfing game Six brand new championship courses Design your own courses with the Arnold Palmer Course Designer Create a tournament and send it through e-mail to your buddy list For 1 or more players over Internet
Product Description
Links 2003 (U) delivers the most realistic golf experience for the PC. The newest version of history's bestselling golf series features six all-new championship courses, giving golfers more realistic control over every shot with the all-new real-time swing. Players can create their own character and play against some of the hottest pros in a professional career, or design their dream course with the Arnold Palmer Course Designer and share it online.
The most detailed golf environments possible Links 2003 (U) features a powerful graphics engine producing photorealistic graphics. Grass, sand, water and other textures are rendered in amazing detail. There's also a selection of all-new championship courses from around the world. Links 2003 (U) features six brand-new courses: Cabo del Sol (Mexico), Kauri Cliffs (New Zealand), Gleneagles (Scotland), The Tribute at Otsego Club (US), Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail-Cambrian Ridge (US) and Skeleton Coast, a fictional course set along the African coastline. Players will also be able to enjoy hundreds of additional courses created by fans and Microsoft.
More realistic control over every shot-New Real-Time Swing lets the mouse become the club, with ball physics factoring in speed, tempo, direction and course conditions in real-time so each shot more closely simulates an actual golf shot. You can also design a course with the most powerful 3-D course designer available then share it online with thousands of golfers. A new library of hundreds of objects, new texture sizes up to 512 x 512, and new tools make the most powerful, 3-D real-time course design tool better than ever.
Review
The latest version of the world's bestselling PC golf game franchise, Links 2003 (U) is a polished, comprehensive and challenging simulation that holds appeal for all levels of player.
Living up to its claims of photo realistic graphics, it's a game brimming with options, yet also equipped with a useful if a little drawn out tutorial section. Still, the learning curve is further aided by special aids, which can be turned off as the player gets better, to help with judging the likes of aim and power.
Included are six brand new courses to the Links franchise, along with a comprehensive and genuinely useable course designer. There's a choice on how you play your strokes too. While the traditional gauge that permeates most golf games is included, a real time swing--whereby the mouse movement controls the club hitting the ball--is a more interesting way to play.
The devil in Links 2003 (U) though is well and truly in the detail. From the nuances of creating your own golfer through to the visualisation of the courses, it's clear that little expense has been spared. That the game also comes with a challenging and long lasting single-player mode in addition to time-guzzling online multiplayer options is but a further compelling reason to buy the game. For if you're a golf game fan, nothing on any format does this better. And heck, even if you're not and you like your sports simulations, it really is worth finding out what all the fuss is about. --Simon Brew
