Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 (PS3)

Region free, full English language, will play on any PS3 console system

The gallery lets out a distant roar. Your lead is down to one. Tiger Woods and a cast of PGA TOUR champions are breathing down your neck. As you stand at the 18th tee, the adrenaline is pumping and all eyes are on you as you prepare to deliver the drive of your life. This is what you live for. Enter the world of high-pressure championship golf in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 07. From Pebble Beach`s plush fairways to the treacherous winds of Bandon Dunes, feed off the intensity and rise above the competition to become the next golf legend.

• Tiger Woods Comes Alive-See and feel every emotion in complete detail with the introduction of all-new Universal Capture (UCAP) technology. The world`s No. 1 golfer seems so real you won`t believe your eyes.
• Play Under Pressure-With bigger galleries, mass crowd movement from hole to hole, and cheers from nearby greens, all eyes are on you in tournament play.
• Enhanced Career Mode-From working on your driving to mastering your putting skills, craft your game with training challenges in the Practice Facility, then take on the world`s best golfers on the World Tour.
• All-New Championship Courses-The course content doubles with the addition of new licensed courses, including Firestone Country Club, Glen Abbey, Princeville, Spyglass Hill, St Andrews, and Bandon Dunes.
• More PGA TOUR Players-Featuring 15 of the world`s top players, including Tiger Woods, John Daly, Vijay Singh, Ian Poulter, Michael Campbell, and Annika Sorenstam, the most decorated golfer on the LPGA Tour.
• Show Your GameFace-The innovative character creation tool is revamped with deeper modifications, more apparel, equipment licenses, and specialty items.
• Become the World`s Best-Challenge up to three players in five new game modes, or play in online tourna

In a nutshell:
Tiger Woods returns and in better form than his recent Ryder Cup letdown, with a whole host of refinements and additions (and the odd subtraction) to the winning PGA Tour formula.

The lowdown:
The problem with updating a golf game every year is that, unlike most other sports, nothing much changes in terms of players or courses. Despite that, this update tries its best with new courses, new golfers, an expanded online mode and an even better create-a-golfer mode. The only downside to all this is that the main "Rivals" single player mode from last year’s game has gone, replaced with the inferior "Team Tour" mode. It doesn’t affect the selection of other modes though, including new options "Elimination" and "OneBall" and the four player "Bloodsome and Greensome". It may not reinvent the wheel but it does at least add some very welcome decoration to it - and thankfully not in the style of most golf clothing.

Most exciting moment:
The best bit about PGA Tour is still its simple and accessible controls. There are two main controls, the first uses the left analogue stick to swing and set the power and the right aims where you hit the ball. The alternative control places the hook and slice on the right stick, if that’s how you prefer it.

Since you ask:
The Xbox 360 version of the game became infamous as the first game to allow you to unlock the extra features by paying money via micro-transactions on Xbox Live Marketplace. You can, however, still unlock them the honest way on all the different versions.

The bottom line:
A minor update to the world’s favourite golf game. -HARRISON DENT