EA Sports PGA Tour Review (Señor Kerman)
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.