Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - PlayStation 2 - PS2

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for PlayStation 2

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for PlayStation 2 lets you prepare every golf shot before drawing the club back. You choose a club, examine the ball's lie and account for wind and changes in elevation. The analog stick determines your backswing and forward stroke. Ball position and your chosen shot type help with a high approach, a low shot beneath branches or a short chip beside the green. When putting, the slope needs particular attention.

In Tiger Challenge you choose challenges on a grid of hexagonal spaces. Short tasks and duels against professionals earn money and small improvements and unlock new opponents. PGA Tour Season gives you a longer career, with tournaments, sponsors and the FedExCup as your goal. You create your own golfer and develop their attributes. The Confidence system uses past performances and a shot's risk to determine that created player's confidence.

For a single round, options include Stroke Play, Match Play and Skins. Every stroke counts in Stroke Play, while Match Play compares holes won. In One Ball, two to four participants take turns hitting the same ball, so you can also leave the next player an awkward position. Target and other short golf games focus on precise targets. You play with a standard PS2 controller, using its buttons and sticks to hit the ball.

Region and language

Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.

This edition of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 has a PAL case with a Swedish flag on the front.

Manual

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.

The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.

The history of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08

Electronic Arts released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for the European PlayStation 2 in 2007. The year on the packaging therefore comes after its release year. The PS2 version was developed by EA Salt Lake, while other console versions used a different technical foundation. The series already had a long history on PS2. Whereas Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001 began with just three courses, this instalment offered a much larger collection of golf courses and several ways to build a career.

The annual update included changes to the golfers, courses and links with the professional golf season. Cog Hill and TPC Boston are among the real locations included in this PS2 edition. The FedExCup gave the season an additional final goal. Meanwhile, Tiger Challenge divided progression into separate tasks on a hexagonal grid. You could therefore choose which encounter or shot challenge to attempt first, instead of only working through the next complete match.

Your own golfer connected those elements. Money, clothing, equipment and improvements made a round's results visible beyond the scorecard. The Confidence system also factored earlier shots into a created player's confidence. At the same time, the analog swing remained the foundation of playing golf. This instalment therefore preserves a later stage of the PS2 series: more extensive career routes and more match formats built around the same attention to ball position, shot power and reading a green.

Similar games for PlayStation 2

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001 for PS2 shares its analog swing and careful club selection with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. The older game concentrates on three courses and a smaller collection of challenges. In 08 you develop your own golfer within a more extensive career featuring sponsors, Tiger Challenge and the FedExCup. The similarity lies in each individual shot; it is mainly progression between rounds that has grown in the later game.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 for PS2 also lets you create a golfer, develop attributes and collect equipment with money earned. Its World Tour takes you through encounters to unlock players and items. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 organises Tiger Challenge on a hexagonal grid and uses the FedExCup as the season's goal. Both combine accurate golf with long-term character development, but offer a different route through those tasks and competitions.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 for PS2 also combines real golf courses with a created player and improvements earned along the way. A distinguishing feature of that edition is Tiger-Proofing: you adjust course characteristics to make them harder. You also play against historical golf legends. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 places different emphasis through its season structure and Tiger Challenge. The shared pleasure of planning and hitting shots therefore gains different objectives outside a single round.

Everybody's Golf for PS2, like Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, requires attention to wind, distance and the green's slope. However, its cartoon golfers and exuberant reactions give Sony's game a different look from Tiger Woods' professional sports presentation. In Everybody's Golf you unlock characters and equipment, and there is miniature golf too. In Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, long-term progression centres mainly on your own golfer, the professionals and the tournament season.

Sega Superstars Tennis for PS2 also centres on timing and ball placement, but demands those skills during a continuous rally. Sonic and other Sega characters use special abilities on themed tennis courts. In Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, you instead take time to prepare an individual shot and assess the lie. Both offer short challenges alongside matches, while the difference between reacting to an opponent and calmly planning a golf route determines the pace.