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Editor's Note: I love playing golf with my father and my brother. I wish they would play Tiger Woods PGA Tour with me -- then maybe I could use my superior knowledge of videogame logic to beat them at some form of golf for the first time in more than two decades! Reid brings up a valid point; golf on the links is different than golf on a console. -Jason




My father loves to play golf. He's been playing since he was in high school. Unfortunately, actually going out to play is becoming harder and harder to do thanks to time constraints and financial issues. So for Father's Day, my siblings and I got him Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for Wii (with Wii Motion Plus). My father was pretty excited about the gift, so we both drove to his house and started playing.


First off, thank you, EA, for allowing players to use the same Wii Remote when playing golf and disc golf. Allowing all players to use one Wii Motion Plus without having to trust the consumer to know to buy more is a genius move.


One of the key features of the Wii Motion Plus is that it will give a more 1:1 experience than the original Wii-mote. Tiger Woods PGA Tour has been boasting that with Wii Motion Plus, every flaw in your game will be re-created accurately. Unfortunately for long time golfers -- and new-time gamers -- this is not the case for the entire experience. My father has a very weird golf swing; he deliberately adds a lot of draw to his shots and aims to the right to compensate. The game doesn't read this action very well, so I tend to have better accuracy than him. He also knows how to read greens and elevation very well, but Tiger Woods PGA Tour does not. My father frequently overanalyzes a shot and completely screws it up because the game is not like real golf.


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I'm a nice guy, or at least I try to be most of the time. Whenever playing a game that gives obvious good or evil choices I always choose good. Whether it's because I think the overall award might be better, or something more lofty, I don't know. Every Bioware game I've played (and I've played all of them), I always go for the "good" character choices, including Mass Effect when I beat it over a year ago. I tried playing the evil side once of twice but I could never stomach how harsh Shepard would treat the other characters. Unfortunately for me, Bioware announced that for the next Mass Effect game all your choices will be carried over from the first game, including whether you were evil or good. Now given how many important choices you are given in the game with clear cut Paragon (good) and Renegade (evil) choices, you basically had two completed different endings. One ending with an entire alien species wiped out and the Head alien counsel destroyed and taken over by humans, or the opposite of that. Now that poses two very distinct beginnings for the new game and the only way to see the stories will be to have two save games to bring over, one completely good and one completely evil. So begins my trek through Mass Effect again, but this time with the evil cracked up to 11. I'll post my progress report here, so you will get to hear my complaints on how much a jerk Shepard can be. I'll also be posting a complete review on the original Mass Effect before the new game comes out. Wish me luck!

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Verizon just announced a subscription-based gaming service for it's High Speed and FiOS customers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. The service seems to be very similar to what Gametap has been offering for years. What makes this service different is that it's from a content provider and could spark a trend that could change the landscape of gaming.


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