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Warning! Save Your Money!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I ordered this game in January 2002 after seeing an advert in Mac World. I guess I bought into the hype and had high expectations. I finally received the product in August. I've only played it once, yesterday, and I was frankly shocked at how bad it is. I'm writing to warn you to save your money.
Despite being released many months late, this feels like Beta software. You can choose from 12 different golfers, but there are only animations for two of them. The Arnold Palmer animation is acceptable, I guess, but where's the rest of the characters?
I cannot figure out why the software was distributed on 4 CD-ROMs, each of which holds 200 MB or so of data. Juggling 4 discs is clunky -- it doesn't seem like the distribution was well thought out.
Only Discs 1 and 4 are needed for installation of the game and the course designer, respectively. The scanty documentation does not mention what Discs 2 and 3 are for. I got prompted to insert Disc 2 the first time I played a new course. I'm guessing the geometry of the various courses is stored on that disc.
Excuse my language, but apart from the Arnold Palmer animation, the quality of the graphics sucks. The details of the main views of the courses are noticeably grainy. The interface is sluggish, clunky and unresponsive. I think my old Links LS was a much better golf game.
For what it's worth, I'm running this program under Mac OS X on a Power Mac G4 with 512 MB of memory. Maybe I need to change the screen resolution somehow, or perhaps the program works better if installed under Mac OS 9... I haven't tried any of this yet. I keep thinking I must be missing something basic about the set-up because as it is I just can't believe how bad the game is.
Links CE 2000
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User
Looks great and plays well with my 14" iBook in OSX. However, it often slows to a crawl or freezes. Mostly after coming out of "sleep". I have to use the reset button and reboot. Luckily, you can start back where you left off. Maybe a patch will come soon.
CE help
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User
For many, depending on their system configuration, to get CE to run properly who will have to turn off background animations (including the flags waving), use panoramic as opposed to dynamic camera views, turn graphics setting down to 3, and in some instances shut the sound off. Once you do the game will more than likely work for you (though possibly better in 9 than X).
Follow Nick from the UK's advice and check out the sites listed for further help getting CE to run for you.
system requirements
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User
This game will not work on a 233 mhz mac product. It was not even beta tested on such low powered machines. The minimum system requirements are at least a G3 333mhz mac with 16 mg video card and a fair bit of ram (probably at least 97 though more likely 128 mg of ram).
Links 2002 for Macintosh
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User
This software did not meet expectations. The program was converted from the Windows platform and there is definite evidence of the old version (title page still has 2001 labels!). Documentation is not sufficient and it's difficult to figure out how to use the basic features and setup. Needs more work!!!
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