Be the Ball

If you've never played a Wii, it's completely different experience than you'd expect with a video game.

Take a game like Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 here. You use the wireless remote to swing like an actual golf club. Our friends at Gamervision.com have taken a look at the latest outing in the series.

Beginning in 1999, EA teamed up with a then up-and-coming star of the PGA, a fellow by the name of Tiger Woods, hoping he could do for golf video game branding what John Madden did for football. The results were better than anyone could have expected; Tiger Woods PGA took off as a gaming franchise, with each year’s iteration being better than the year before.

The release of the Wii gave EA an opportunity to bring to a Tiger game something that the series had never seen before: motion controls. Many gamers believed that there were few sports that would be as natural a fit for the Wii as golf.

Sadly, last year’s version was disappointing to say the least, with shoddy motion controls, lackluster visuals, and putting that was borderline broken. I held out hope that some of the problems that plagued the ’08 version would be fixed for ’09.

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