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An otherwise good game RUINED

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've never seen a worse short game/putting system in my life. An otherwise GREAT and entertaining golf game completely trashed by the worst chipping and putting you will encounter in any video golf game for the rest of your life. EVER. I would buy this game if they'd have spent more than a day building the putting model. Completely inconsistent and inaccurate. RUINS the game.

A great game for a group

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Outlaw Golf is a very easy game to pick up. The controls are fairly easy and the game includes a tutorial. Like golf, the game is simple, but mastery takes a while. Unlike many other golf games, the swing is easily hooked or sliced, but that's like real life golf. The characters and sounds are a little hokey and the couses are not very interesting. The nice thing about this game is that four players can play and be entertained. Outlaw Golf makes a good game for a group of people who don't want to spend a lot of time learning a game and want to all be able to play at once.

LOTS OF FUN

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS BREATH OF FRESH AIR FROM ALL THE OTHER GOLF GAMES I HAVE PLAYED.. THE GOLF GAME ITS SELF IS SOLID ..YOU GET TO BEAT UP YOUR CADDY
AND WITH A FEW CHOICE WORDS ..ITS HARD TO FIND A GAME THAT THE WIFE LIKES TO PLAY AS WE'LL AS SHE HAS FUN TO ..THATS A PLUS..GREAT GAME
TRY IT! YOU'LL LIKE IT ,MIKEL

Get it, it's that simple!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game may have a control scheme that is rather akward, and it may have repetive music. But those become minor flaws when you get into the game. The graphics are great, the announcer is funny, and the charecters, the very gas in the game, are over-the-top. As the back cover implies, "Outstanding golg meets strippers, ex-cons, and wannabe rappers." The game will make you sell your copy of "Tiger Woods PGA Tour".

Strange to title. Realistic, yet somewhat not...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Golf comes in many flavors. You've got real golf, which involves a whole lot of walking and a little bit of hitting a ball past some trees or over water. Then you've got Mario Golf, which is much the same but involves giant apes and dinosaurs, though no Tigers, which can only be found on the pro circuit. Rounding out the pack, you can even have mildly silly golf, such as Hot Shots Golf's large-headed and exaggerated characters. Yes, video gamers know that golf comes in a lot of flavors, but most of them have just been variations on vanilla. By comparison, Simon and Schuster's new Outlaw Golf is a dark chocolate ripple with butterscotch, nuts and some sort of unidentifiable crunchy candy mixed into the works.

The premise behind Outlaw Golf is simple: the least likely collection of courses and golfers have been drawn together for your putting pleasure, with the end result being a send up of the sport's normally high-class veneer. Take the first character in the roster, for instance, a charming belle named Harley. Raised with a wrench in one hand and a club in the other, Harley's skills at bike repair, beer swilling, bar room brawling and chip shots are just about equal. Of course, she doesn't travel alone, and her hard-living, van-dwelling husband Snake accompanies her to every event as a caddy. Also available as playable characters are El Suave and El Ramone, the only duo on the links who can pose at all times during a golf swing, Mistress Suki and her consensual servant Puddin', and the wannabe rapper Ice Trey complete with his caddy, Fresh Fruit. Ranging from serial killers let loose on a technicality to Scummy O'Doole, the famed scottish soccer hooligan, you can find virtually every misfit and malcontent you never thought would appear on a golf course happily ignoring their divots in Outlaw Golf.

As might be expected with such a motley crew, decorum on the course goes out the window and a level head is a rare thing. To represent this temperamental nature, Outlaw Golf uses a fairly unique composure meter. Similar to various systems that measure a team's momentum in other sports titles, your composure represents how into the game your golfer is. With high composure, their head is together and they are playing inside the zone. At the other end of the spectrum, fuming tempers and rushed shots worsen their play. This, of course, translates directly into a game mechanic, and your golfer's skills will be dynamically affected by how they're composing themselves.
Since poor play breeds poor composure and vice-versa, you tend to go on hot or cold streaks as you play through the links. If you manage to drive every shot off the tee at full power and avoid any bunkers or the deep rough, you'll slowly end up in this zen-like place. Once there, your shots will drop straight into the pocket, your distances will adjust themselves even if you fudge the controls a bit and the wind will be less of a factor. With low composure, though, perfectly executed shots will be moderately successful, while any mistake on the player's part will be heavily penalized.

Of course, there's an easy way to get your composure back. You simply have to take out your frustration somewhere and relax a bit. Luckily for these hotheaded players, their caddies are not only nearby at all times, but also weighted down with golf clubs, making them easy to catch. These relaxation sessions are more accurately described by Outlaw Golf as "beatings," and you can elect to administer one so long as you have a beating token. You begin with only one of these precious disks, but well played holes will award you with more for future use. In order to execute this thrashing, you need to follow the tried and true golf-game practice of clicking at the right place as an indicator moves back and forth across a target bar. With proper timing and good reflexes you can use this bit of corporal punishment to take your golfer's mood all the way from outraged to enthusiastic. As might be expected, each duo's routines vary during these beatings, with Madame Suki's whippings carrying an entirely different tone from Summer and Autumn, two Ph.D students who moonlight as exotic dancers and who get into a wholesale cat fight complete with hair pulling and slaps.

For all its lurid pageantry, Outlaw Golf is still about properly playing the links. Mechanically, the gameplay is similar to the new wave of golf titles.Overall Thoughts: Outlaw Golf is the only take on the noble sport of golfing to date that features characters as sexy as its visuals. Throwing the decorum of golf into the nearest water hazard, this cast of misfits ranges from bikers to a dominatrix. Similarly, the courses feature such exotic locations as the grassy fields under Jersey turnpikes and country clubs that have barely broached the cultural advances of the 19th century, let alone our own modern age. These stunning visuals and strong characters are complimented by an equally hardy golfing game that blends intuitive controls with a unique composure bar that represents your character's current state of mind. You can even release some tension by beating the living daylights out of your caddy, making this the first full-contact golf title ever. Hitting stores this May, Outlaw Golf looks set to make a clean get-a-way with more than a few gamers' bankrolls when it hits store shelves.

Features:

1. Photo realistic golfing environments, complete with transformer stations, turnpikes and trailer parks.
2. A motley crew of characters ranging from bikers to ex-convicts.
3. The first full body contact golfing game, allowing you to beat up your caddy to relax.
4. An emotion system that adjusts your player's performance based on their mood.
5. Driving ranges, exhibition matches, tournaments and more.
6. Up to four simultaneous players.
7. Hilarious voice overs, characters and announcers.

Must Have

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome and i hate golf!! I think the fighting adds to it!! Plus the one-liners. This games is a must own for the xbox, just for the replay value. It will not be one of those games you beat then leave, it is also very hard to beat, I have yet to do so. Includes: unlocking many characters, mini games and challenges, several golf courses, nice graphics. Sometimes is frustrating, after awhile you get the hang of it and how to measure the shots.

Frozen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is great fun but we have an early xbox and it freezes up on the first hole with three players - every time! What a bummer. Hopefully we just got a damaged disc and we'll try again but if the next disc freezes my rating will be 0 stars.

Worsht... game... ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: July 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Only 3 course, no real practice sessions, only extremely annoying tutorials. Grating commentary........ Too difficult at times to be enjoyable. Do yourself a favor and go outside and play a regular game of Golf. This game is the worst I have played on the Xbox next to Azurik. Buyer beware.

THE BEST GOLF GAME EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game rules. PERIOD! The gameplay is the best out there. All the characters are great, especially Scrummy and Suave. They cracked me up. The controls take some getting used to. But even a child can do it. (Not that kids should play this) This game is definately made for adults with twisted senses of humor. Go out and buy it... See for yourself.

Above par game - great gameplay, with some omissions.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The actual golf in this game is entertaining, and it's challenging enough, after the first course.

The characters and dialogue are amusing, and the play-by play still makes me laugh out loud now and again.

The graphics are great (as usual for the Xbox), and the sounds are good, too, with a few exceptions.

There are 4 practice-type mini-games, each with 3 or 4 levels of difficulty, and winning them allows you to improve your golfer. Certainly a very cool feature.

There are also many multiplayer options, including the very cool "My one and only" game, in which each player gets to pick one club to play the entire course with (plus a putter).

My only complaints about this game are as follows:

1) No statistical tracking or records. Many of you may know the arcade game "Golden Tee", which tracks stats such as Longest Drive, Longest Putt, Most Birdies, Most Eagles, Most Greens Hit, et cetera. This is a feature that is sorely lacking in this game. I'm not greedy, I don't need career stats for every player and such, but course records would add a lot of enjoyment for both the single and multiplayer modes.

2) Only 3 courses. In this day and age? Surely they could have fit a minimum of 5 courses...even if they sprinkled in a few 9-hole courses on top of the 3 they have, it would expand the usuable lifespan of this game dramatically.

Overall, I definitely recommend this game to golf lovers. Don't be put off by the rowdy name -- it's all window dressing around a very solid golf sim.

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