I'd like to see fairways stay sopping wet with puddles splashing even after the weather returns to normal. During a downpour you'll see things like gusting wind that knocks the ball down and fairways that soften up for decreased roll distance, but as soon as the deluge stops, I found that conditions returned to normal too quickly. The feature is supposed to add real weather updates to the course you're playing on, and while the visual representations of these acts of nature comes through just fine, the changes to gameplay aren't quite there.

Live Weather is another small addition to Tiger Woods that has actually been seen in other EA Sports games like NCAA Football the last few years. Like all of the new features, it's nothing spectacular or overly imaginative, but it's a fun and welcome addition nonetheless. Likewise, the new Tournament Challenge uses GamerNet technology and forces you to hit exactly the same shots as some of golf's biggest names. If Phil 'Lefty' Mickelson drains a put on 16 to pull one-ahead of you on the leaderboard, you'll see that reflected in-game. It allows you to play side-by-side against the leaderboards from any real golf tournament. My favorite is easily the Play the Pros option within the Live Tournaments. The game modes themselves, however, are well designed and fun to play. Likewise, Van Pelt and Tilghman don't bring the excitement that they would during a real Sunday afternoon on the links. Sit down and watch the final round of one of Tiger's famous comebacks or see him drill a 20-foot putt on 17 or 18 and you'll hear what the crowd in Tiger Woods Golf should sound like. Even with those appreciated changes, I still can't help but feel like the real emotion of the Tour is held back. You'll hear fans in the distance cheer as your opponent sinks a critical putt, Kelly Tilghman and Scott Van Pelt will spout quips about movement on the leaderboards, and you'll get visual cues as players make and miss putts elsewhere on the course. With new tournament modes to toy around with (the aforementioned Tournament Challenge and Live Tournaments to go along with the standard PGA Season) EA Sports made the wise choice of trying to up the emotion of the game of golf. If you can get by that fact, then you'll find a golf title that's easy to enjoy. Still, none of these features are mind-blowing, and none will change the way you fundamentally think about Tiger Woods Golf. There are small things like the new Tournament Challenge that lets you take on real-world tourney situations from years past and Live Online Tournaments – my personal favorite of the new features – that allow you to record scores against other living players or real pros currently on the course. There's no doubt that Tiger Woods 10 is missing one major feature addition for EA Sports to hang its marketing hat on, but that doesn't mean that golf fans won't find plenty to enjoy.

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