Pro Series Golf gets underway

[slitchfield]

Pro Series Golf, one of the most eagerly awaited N-Gage titles, is now available. If you can't see it in your N-Gage client, then 'View available games' and look down the bottom of the list. Screenshots and first impressions are below. It's 21MB and takes 5 minutes to install(!), by the way - I'll have a full review up before the weekend.

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[ccraig]

OMG one of the decent game's are here.
Can't wait for it to install it takes ages and is massive
looks good from the screenshots
You guys beat me to this anouncment i've been quick off the mark reporting thing last couple of weeks
Dam i knew i should'nt of fell a sleep watching that terrible billie piper program LOL

[Kazutoyo]

Looks nice I look forward to the review.

This and Dirk Dagger are the N-Gage games I look forward to the most. At least until we see a proper single player RPG for the platform.

[ccraig]

wow the quality of this game is unbelievable loading times between shots and players is instant many different modes including carear,skins,online and others
Console game Quality for mobile phone

BIG THUMBS UP

Steve, are you going to dominate the leader board again with 1,000,000 points right out the gate?

-ikona

[slitchfield]

No, no domination this time, I suspect. Golf will take far longer to get my head round whether it's rubbish, OK or a masterpiece. Still, expect more comment by the end of the day - although I do have work to do, you know 8-)

The trial for this game let's you play it quite a bit, thankfully, so you can all try Pro Series Golf for yourselves!!!

Nice one, Nokia.

[ccraig]

once you've finished a round you can save it
then play against yourself Head to HEAD in Ghost mode
it's got awsome features
online looks good too ,you can actually check to see if theres others online , unlike the other games where you have to wait around and hope some1 is about
All the point pick ups are secret theres no explanation in app or in game like there is for other games.
The explanation only shows in app once you've achieved that point.

[krisse]

online looks good too ,you can actually check to see if theres others online , unlike the other games where you have to wait around and hope some1 is about

I think they learned their lesson from the original gen N-Gage's version of Tiger Woods, where there was online multiplayer but you couldn't see if anyone was online so no one ever met each other.

[ccraig]

Originally Posted by krisse

I think they learned their lesson from the original gen N-Gage's version of Tiger Woods, where there was online multiplayer but you couldn't see if anyone was online so no one ever met each other.

same thing was happening in the recent games too ,i can never find opponents

[krisse]

same thing was happening in the recent games too ,i can never find opponents

I think that's the main idea of the friends list in the N-Gage app itself. You can see which friends are online, you can see which games they've got, and you can message them to invite them to a game. Come to think of it, that's actually a better approach than doing it in-game because it covers all N-Gage titles instead of just one.

The trouble is friends probably won't be online all the time, and you might want to play with a wider range of players. It would be nicer if N-Gage had some optional way of displaying that you're online to non-friends too (it would be off by default, but you could switch it on if you fancy an online game).

[ccraig]

1st you have to hope a friend is online which hardly any are ,then you got to hope they have the game and they want to play it if they do have it.
chances are they are in different time zones so you never see them much.
so it's all down to luck if you try finding a opponent like that.
Thats why its best to just log on and play a random person but 1st you need to know if theres someones around to play which until Pro Series Golf there was no way of knowing.

[slitchfield]

Impressions after the first hour of gameplay (I know, I know, I should be working - Rafe cracks his whip etc):
Very good game - in feel, it's very much how my Fairway would have turned out if I'd carried on working on it since 1999!! 8-)
A few minor display and game glitches.
No way to impart spin on the ball (that I've yet found)
Some shots aren't realistic
Difficulty level is about right

Overall, I'm impressed. I bought a full copy, not just for the review but because I think I'd play this in real life. Hoping to catch Rafe later for an Arena multi-player match.