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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 for Xbox Original
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 for Xbox Original lets you prepare every golf shot by choosing a club, a target and considering the ball's lie. You perform the swing with the analogue stick; direction and timing determine how cleanly the ball leaves the club. You can choose a safe place on the fairway or try to get closer to the flag with a longer shot. Around the green the pace changes: a short chip or accurate putt can achieve more than another powerful stroke.
You create your own golfer with GameFace II and work through Legend Pursuit towards matches against famous golf champions. Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Seve Ballesteros bring their own challenges. You also play on existing golf courses and can alter parts of them with Tiger Proofing. Narrower fairways, tougher rough and modified greens change the decisions you make during a round. For Dream 18 you combine favourite existing holes into your own round; you do not draw a completely new course from scratch.
Locally, up to four players can take turns golfing on the same Xbox. You use ordinary Xbox controllers; no special golf accessories are needed. The game appeared in 2004, despite 2005 in its title. The original Xbox Live features are historical and are not offered as a working online service.
Region and language
Our Xbox Original 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.
Manual
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 for Xbox Original 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 2005
EA Redwood Shores developed the console versions of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 for Electronic Arts. The game appeared in autumn 2004 on platforms including the original Xbox. It therefore belongs to that console generation's golf series, not to later Xbox 360 releases. The analogue swing and a created golfer remained important elements, but the new edition gave famous champions from earlier eras a larger role. The computer edition and later handheld versions had different development teams and are not the basis of this description.
For the five historical golf legends, the team studied old footage and photographs, sometimes from their personal collections. The aim was to portray them at the peak of their careers. Legend Pursuit connected those names to a series of duels and particularly difficult shot situations. Seve Ballesteros' reputation for recovery shots, for example, became challenges from awkward positions. The sport's history thus provided a reason to practise different kinds of shot, rather than merely supplying a list of extra characters.
Tiger Proofing grew out of the real practice of making golf courses harder for leading players. Producer Cody Murry described how the team turned that idea into adjustable course elements and new tee positions. Combining it with Dream 18 gave players influence over a round's conditions while keeping the existing holes recognisable. This annual edition therefore went beyond new names: different settings could also make the same course prompt different decisions.
Similar games for Xbox Original
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 on Xbox Original has the same foundation of an analogue swing, club selection and a created golfer. The step to 2005 mainly lies in Legend Pursuit, the five historical champions and Tiger Proofing. You therefore practise familiar golf shots, but can adjust the conditions of existing holes further. Choosing between the two is not comparing different sports: it concerns how the career and golf courses are structured.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 also appeared for the original Xbox and expands the series with features including Rival Mode, in which you face Tiger through different periods. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 focuses its historical duels on five golf legends and uses Dream 18 to combine existing holes. The dates are close, but progression is organised differently. Features from the separate Xbox 360 version of 06 are not part of this comparison.
Links 2004 on Xbox Original also lets you determine each shot through an analogue movement and asks you to consider club, wind and lie. Its presentation and golfer development take a different approach from the pronounced character progression of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. Links emphasises carefully executing a round. Tiger adds extra goals to the same pursuit of a low score through historical opponents and adjustable course elements.
Outlaw Golf 2 also uses club selection, shot power and reading a golf course, but combines them with exaggerated characters and crude humour. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 centres on official golf courses, famous professionals and historical champions. Both make a failed shot affect the ball's next position. In Tiger, variety mainly comes from the course and duels; Outlaw makes personalities and its comic framing a much more prominent part of the match.
Top Spin shares the development of a created athlete and the practice of precise controls with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. Tennis, however, requires you to react immediately to each returned ball and constantly adjust your court position. Golf gives you time to plan a single shot, after which you must continue from the result. The difference is therefore not just racket or club, but the alternation between thinking and execution.
