EA SPORTS™ PGA TOUR™

Thank god i got this game at a 90% discount ($7) its menu is very slow trying to invite your friends to a match freezes your game. connecting to the EA servers is a battle. there is so much more wrong with this game. it was worth the $80 for the 2K25 PGA tour Legend Edition. everything functions way better in the 2K25 game

I'm an old guy. I've been playing games for a long time. I can't say I found a game so unplayable as this one in my life. Let's start with installing. Once you install the game, the first thing it will ask you is if you want to install the EA app. This is asked as a question, but it is actually a requirement. Failure to install the app will prevent the game from ever loading. If you owned the game more than two weeks, Steam won't give you a refund, even if you never were able to play the game (less than 1 minute of total playtime). If you want to game to load, you will have to go accept installing the EA app as the first thing you do, or go to EA.com and download the app. Oh, and it requires an EA login ID, so you must provide an email address and password making EA a great target for hackers to gain your information, not that they won't sell you data anyway. Now that you have spent your money, given EA information and access that wasn't part of the purchase EULA; you must really want to play the game. Tip, it is easier to start the game from the now installed EA app than Steam. So start the game... Oh wait, one more thing you have to do. EA wants access through your firewall. Not only must you provide them information, that want to touch other things on your network. You can't proceed without giving access. Wow, you must really want to play... So finally you hear music. Lots of music. You can't turn it off yet, because first EA Sports PGA Tour wants to sell you on the purchase you just made. They want you to know what they are giving you in the game, when all the stuff I have already mentioned they want from you is never mentioned. After you click through the enforced informercial, you must immediately create your character. Because of DEI, you must first select one of 4 options. You can randomize those options, which gives a new set of 4 of 6 options to choose. You must select one. You can do nothing else until you select one. So you do. Now you must provide demographics, because DEI demands it. Once you provide demographics, you can now customize your character to something you might find appealing or familiar. Now that you created your character; you can finally access the title menu. Did I mention that if you are playing this on PC and intending to use a keyboard, but have say simulation controllers installed; you can't navigate the menu? See EA Sports PGA Tour assumes you will be using those rudder pedals as the controller for a golf game. Unplug the rudder, well then how about the throttles? Unplug those, well the flight stick will work. No? Ok, you can use the keyboard, but you can't go to settings and make keyboard the default option, so don't try plugging anything back in that might appear like a controller. And since you insist on using a keyboard, forget about using your mouse to navigate the menus by clicking. That music is pretty loud now, and been playing for awhile. Well, get ready to hit the down volume button 100 times rather than using the slide bar with your mouse. I must admit, this is when I finally gave up. There are more menu settings for accessibility, so that it can read the navigation menu to you than there are graphic settings for working with a 4k monitor. I know I have access to something called "shotlink", but my choices for playing the game is using the left stick or right stick on my unplugged controller, or a 3-click option, after I set all 6 of the different ways you can address the ball to that option. I never managed to actually get to a course and certainly never hit one ball. If I were to compare this to another game; I think Password Simulator would probably be a close comparison, except I rather play that Indy title than this hot mess of a game. The best thing I can say is I got this on sale, but even if it was free, I think it costs too much.

The game is not consistent and has withdrawn me several times from tournaments when I did not withdrawl myself! EA is not fixing this problem and seems they do not care! Very frustrating!!!!!!! One more thing is that the weekly quest is stuck on Valhalla! So every week lose out on benefits of the3 weekly quest! GET IT FIXED!!!!!!!

fun game ruined by ♥♥♥♥♥♥ micro transactions, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ required connection even when playing career mode tldr ea is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ company dont buy this low effort cash grab

Don't waste your money on this dumpster fire. I don't think anyone involved ever swung a club in their life let alone stepped onto a golf course. I think they were going for the unpredictable feel that occurs in real golf, but they missed the mark by a mile. the unpredictability of real golf may throw your game off a little, the ball doesn't roll as far is you thought it would, or rolls a little bit farther or to the left or whatever, but it's a little bit off normally. In this game hitting a "perfect" ball, misses by 50 freekin yards. Also, it's inconsistent so you can't even adjust or adapt (like ok this game thinks 50 yards is 70 so I can adjust accordingly). No, in this game it seems like every shot has a random set of physics that can't be learned. That's not golf. Also, they don't have a driving range or any mechanism to "practice" or learn the interface. They just throw you into a master’s tournament with the commentators riffing about how much you suck. So in summery... 1. Inconsistent game physics that doesn’t appear to have any basis in reality so it’s unpredictable in a way that can’t even become predictable after “practice”. 2. No tutorial or training or even and explanation about how the physics works or why 2 identical shots on identical holes will have vastly different outcomes. And, they’re not differences like on one shot the ball rolled an extra yard or two, like in real golf, but differences like one shot lands close to where you placed the target and one shot is 50 yards off with no explanation or hope of understanding what just happened. Golf can be frustrating, but you learn by playing and you can adjust so that you don’t make the same mistakes, or at least not as bad. This game is frustrating but not like golf is frustrating. If you say, in this game 2+2=5, fine I can adjust/adapt but when you say 2+2=4 or 5 randomly and there’s no apparent pattern or reasoning to it, that’s a different kind of frustration It’s almost like the guy heading up this whole operation is pissed off that his now ex-wife was stolen by some golfer and this is his way of getting back at them.

I do recommend getting this on a sale. The game plays like PGA 2k23 with them being so close to each other. That being said this one is way more of a grind to feel adequate in the game play when 2k23 feels good right off the tee. Online players are scarce but I have played a handful. Recommend friends to fill the lobbies if you can. Don't have to spend money in game but its encouraged for boosting. Winning events gives you in game currency to buy things you may want and winning some events gives you items adding attributes to your clubs. Graphics in these games don't change much year to year in these games either. Achievements are straight forward. So if you like golf and want more of a grind building your character choose this game.

First of all don't listen to the negative reviews of people who have less than 3 hours game play. Overall its a good game. i purchased while on sale for under £10 , once you get used to the golf physics and style of play. You have to play every shot seriously to start off with. Its not like the golf games of old where you just swing hard as you can and hope for the best. this game doesn't work like that, You have to analyse all the information the game is telling you. such as the lie of the ball, wind direction, Just like real life. you cant hit a shot out of the rough from 300 yards away with a driver and expect it to hit the green like on the old Tiger woods games of the 00'S Customisation could be a better. i do miss break dancing on the green after sinking a long put or having a ridiculous happy Gilmore swing. The courses are beautiful looking if you have a PC powerful enough. 7/10 good game but i wouldn't pay full price.