This could have been a terrific, challenging experience, but in the end, Golf Star has ended up as “A good golf game spoiled”. Such a shame – the programmers who worked on the golf bits itself should be congratulated. Me? I’d long since lost the will to live… Real time tournaments are provided and, I’m sure, are lots of fun for those who have invested the necessary time and money in the Golf Star ecosystem. Golf Star is at heart just a way of making an obscene amount of money for the developers – who should be ashamed of themselves. From token to coin to heart to power-up to booster to experience points to consumable to every other virtual infestation under the sun (maybe you’re starting to get a sense of my outrage), Golf Star is a veritable nightmare to navigate. However – the surrounding game ‘furniture’ is appallingly, terribly, over-complex and unbalanced. the golf itself is satisfying, realistic and challenging, the 3D world beautiful to look at and the shot UI is familiar and comforting.
#CASUAL GAMES FOR IPAD PROFESSIONAL#
Golf Star has a huge amount going for it – and a huge amount to make any sane computer golfer run away screaming! Based on a professional physics engine, i.e. Golf Starįor the first time ever in an iPhoneHacks ‘Top games’ feature, don’t necessarily take a placing as a recommendation. The Best Golf Games for iPhone and iPad 3. I should add that I have some personal form in this game genre, having written golf games/simulations for the Psion palmtops back in the 1990s and the Nokia and Sony Ericsson smartphones in the early 2000s – so I know a good golf title when I see it.
#CASUAL GAMES FOR IPAD PLUS#
Typically there will be wind, ball lie and terrain to contend with, plus limitations due to the clubs available, and so on. Not that the ‘one button’ nature should take away from the skill required to succeed. Lift your gaze for a moment or get distracted and you won’t have just been killed by a zombie or a gunman! So golf is a perfect ‘casual’ game that doesn’t require massive multi-finger coordination and concentration. The other reason golf is such a popular game genre is that it’s by nature almost a ‘one button’ game, in that the core action – that of taking a shot – is just a matter of timing a tap or flick on the touchscreen of, in this case, an iPhone. Part of the attraction of computer/mobile golf, of course, is that it gives you a taste of the open air, the grass, and trees, the challenges of wind and terrain, all without lifting more than a finger. On iOS in 2016, I’ve sorted through well over a dozen golf game titles to bring you just the best and most interesting. Seems that ‘a good walk spoiled’ is better when powered by a CPU and without the fresh air! And with palmtops/PDAs and then smartphones, golf games have been available and popular at every stage. Computer golf has been a tradition going back 30 years, right back to the days of CGA and EGA monitors on PCs.
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