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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for PlayStation 3
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for PlayStation 3 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 PS3 controller, using its buttons and sticks to hit the ball.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European 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.
Manual
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for PlayStation 3 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 PlayStation 3 in 2007, so the year on the cover runs ahead of the release year. It was the series' second PS3 entry after Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07. The new edition continued the analogue swing and professional presentation while changing the emphasis of its career. The FedExCup, Tiger Challenge and Confidence system gave progression its own structure.
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 PS3 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 PS3 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 3
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 on PlayStation 3 also uses the analogue stick for the swing and builds a career around professional courses and golfers. PGA Tour 08 adds the FedExCup and organises Tiger Challenge differently. Its Confidence system also lets earlier performances affect later shots. This makes 08 a continuation of the same foundation with greater emphasis on progression and form.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 on PlayStation 3 retains the analogue shot and created golfer, but makes coaching by Hank Haney important and offers more precise equipment tuning. PGA Tour 08 focuses its career more on Tiger Challenge, Confidence and the FedExCup. Both demand patience on the green, while the sequel mainly refines training and equipment.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 on PlayStation 3 develops the same golf simulation with a renewed selection of courses, players and competition features. PGA Tour 08 preserves the earlier design around Confidence and a hexagonal Tiger Challenge. Playing both reveals the same preparation for each shot and shows how the annual series gradually changed its career and presentation.
Everybody's Golf: World Tour on PlayStation 3 also demands attention to wind, distance and the slope of the green. Its cartoon golfers and light presentation differ from the professional style of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. Both reward a well-placed shot, but Everybody's Golf uses a simple three-step system while Tiger Woods centres on movement of the analogue stick.
John Daly's ProStroke Golf on PlayStation 3 approaches each shot from a closer camera view and supports PlayStation Move for motion-controlled swings. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 uses the standard controller and builds its career around a created golfer, Tiger Challenge and the FedExCup. Both simulate club choice and course lie, but their input and career routes clearly differ.
