Monday, August 22, 2005

[PC game review] SimGolf



SimGolf - It's a Sim gamer, and it's all about Golf.

This is a very basic strategy game revolving around creating your own golf courses. That being said, it's a great deal of fun and you don't even need to like golf to enjoy this game.

If you've ever played Rollercoaster Tycoon or games of that nature, this is what this game is like and about.

You begin with $100,000 and can buy a course. This can cost anywhere from $50,000 to $1,000,000, and obviously there are some courses that are more desirable. Courses have varying terrain, objects and amounts of land. If you're looking for one course in particular there is a "Reset World" button that randomly changes the amount of land and the price for the courses available.

Once you have a course, you can then start creating your holes. This can be as simple as putting down a Tee and a Pin. Once that's done, you can open your hole. Adding more greens, freeways, sandtraps and suchlike simply makes it a better hole.

Adding in more holes, landscaping and staff simply makes the course more enjoyable and customers will soon join your club. You will quickly win awards as well.

By achieving objectives, you can increase the stats on your personal player, so that you can then enter your player into tournaments and win more money for your course to expand.

Graphically it's a moderate type of game, and sound wise is pretty simplistic. But the gameplay makes up for any shortcomings in these departments.

For anyone who likes Strategy games, this is an enjoyable little game.

Score: 8 out of 10

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