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Golf Pro Want-A-Be

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was at MacWorld the other day and Links was being displayed. I watched as they demostrated the game. I was able to get a chance to play it and to be honest, I played it for some time there and then found a computer set up with the game installed spent the rest of the day playing the game. Love the stragedy in it and the ability to change the settings of the game.

Nice, but will it ever actually be released?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: May 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I too played this game quite a bit at MW SF. It was the best, most realistic golf game that I've ever seen. Still waiting for it to be released. And waiting, and waiting. MWSF was in January, btw. They've been delaying the release of this game quite often. Not sure why. In the 20-30 minutes that I played it at MWSF, under OS X, it seemed quite polished and stable. Not a single crash. Can't wait!

The Gift That Keeps on Giving...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My husband is an avid golfer was very excited about being able to "design-in" our brand new Municipal golf course "The Meadow At Peabody" so he could play golf at home And the old fashioned way. Well, the game didn't arrive for Christmas and then it didn't arrive for our March anniversary, and then it didn't arrive for the opening of the full 18 hole opening of the Meadow in May.
It really should be a pretty fine game...because we've now waited through Fathers' Day, and his birthday is coming up and then it looks like Christmas again.

I would love to review this game... IF I COULD EVER PLAY IT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been waiting for this game for months on end now and it sounds like I'm not alone! What could possibly be taking THIS long?!?!?!?

Links Championship Edition 2002 (Mac)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: June 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Hard to review a game that will never be released. I have had it on order since November. If the developers are not competent enough to complete it on time, it should never have been advertised 9 months ago. Amazon still says I should receive my copy some time in January. I hope that doesn't mean 2003.

Light at the end of the tunnel

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...It looks like it worked well on certain Apple hardware. Maybe a graphics card issue???? Maybe if we all cross our fingers ...

????

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been waiting since June to receive this game. It's now August. What's going on here????

I have It! Now if only I could PLAY it...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The waiting game is over. Links has arrived. Too bad I can't play it.
First of all, the title of the game has changed to Links Championship Edition "New for 2002". What you actually get is Links 2001 with the Championship Edition expansion pack, all packed onto 4 CD's. OK, I can deal with that.
If you, like me, have made the switch to Mac OS X, your machine had better not have a Rage Pro series video card, because if you do, the game will not work. I have yet to have an application that fully crashed my PowerMac G4. Upon the games initial launch, the game froze so bad that I could not even force quit it. It's the first time I have had to use the reset button since making the switch to OS X. Reading through the troubleshooting guide, I discovered that the ATI Rage Pro series video cards are NOT supported in OS X. The workaround for this is to boot into OS 9 and play it from there. On the upside, I did boot into OS 9 and the game played great, without a single glitch or crash. Unfortunately, I have made the switch to OS X and am not going to boot into 9 just to play this game.
In review, the game looks and plays great. Has lots of customizable features,great potential and was very fun to play in OS 9.
If you have OS X and an ATI Rage card and were expecting an OS X native game, this is a huge letdown. You will need to boot into OS 9 or upgrade your video card. I will probably be doing the latter.
For now, I'll continue playing LEADERBOARD on my Amiga 500!!

Warning! Save Your Money!

1 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 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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