![]() ![]() Wind isn't a factor here, but then old Tiger never had rotating platforms that look like misshapen coconut rolls to negotiate. Some would say it's more a puzzler than a golf game, but then isn't golf a kind of puzzle in itself? Besides, like the real thing, you still have to judge the aim, power and timing of your swing to hit the perfect shot. Bunkers are still present, of course, but you'll welcome their soft embrace when the alternative is rolling off into the void. The courses here make the back nine at Carnoustie look like kids' stuff - greens often lie on floating platforms several dozen feet above the tee, and along the way you'll have magnets, icy ledges and portal gates to contend with. Which is to say it has no truck with realism and is all the better for it. Here the sport of golf is less a good walk spoiled, more a good spin around a sticky rotating platform spoiled. ![]() Trouble is, they're usually positioned near hazards. Each course holds ten 'bux' (sigh) that give you an extra bonus when collected. He's a stick man and he's super, and so, happily enough, is his game. Super Stickman Golf seems rather proud of its similarly afflicted hero (and he is a hero: you try playing golf without any knees) by proudly declaring his physical deficiencies in the title. Most smartphone games don't have the kind of production budget EA Sports can afford to spend on such trifles, which is perhaps why many of them hark back to the good old days where video game avatars didn't need trousers - or indeed knees - to do their job. ![]() Imagine being that guy who went into game development full of excitement and ideas and ended up having to render the creases in Tiger Woods' immaculately modelled golfing slacks. Contemporary games wear their verisimilitude like a badge of honour, while PR blurbs parp half-truths about 'authenticity' and 'realism' with depressing regularity. It's odd, isn't it, that as the possibilities video game technology allows become ever more amazing, the keener developers are to recreate the real world. ![]()
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