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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.

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.

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????

Bug Ridden Disaster in OS X

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Is this what we have waited for? I do not know how the OS9 version works, but DO NOT buy this for OSX. In the space of one hour I had 3 Kernal panics and never once got past the first hole without crashing. Visually, the game looks great, I just wish it was playable. This software is not ready for release as an OSX application. I returned it to Amazon.

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.

stay away from this one

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this is an inferior product that does not
satisfy. Don't waste your money.

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).

I can't even install it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I always get a Error type 1 (a memory error). It won't install. I have 768 MB of Ram. What a thrill to have a game that won't load.

Play the real thing! You'll be better off!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This software leaves a ton to be desired. I can't believe the software doesn't work any better than it does and it's a very poor conversion from the Windows version. The software has very poor documentation and NO support from the publisher. An example of the quality is the fact that the program is packaged with the year 2002 and when the program is actually loaded, it's labeled for the year of 2001. Where's the quality control check? The best advice, to play a real round of golf and save your money.

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