First of all I want to say that I just recently switched from Tiger 06 to 08 and I am VERY DISSAPOINTED. This game has so many problems with it that I wish I could take it back. Let me list some of the many problems I've experienced so far (and I've only had it for a week).
(1) Photo game face- I uploaded photos to the website and when I tried to download them from xbox live I kept getting an error stating that I have not downloaded any photos to the EA servers. So I emailed tech support to find out the solution to my problem, they explained to me that they are having technical difficulties with the Photo game face server and hope to have everything working soon. typical customer service runaround lalalala they fed me because after checking every day for like 3 days I decided to check around the forums to see if other people were having the same problem I was, and sure enough they were. That's when someone said that THERE IS A FILE SIZE LIMIT TO THE PICTURE YOU CAN USE!!! Why doesn't it say that anywhere? It's not on the instruction book, on the game itself, or on the website, and tech support couldn't even give me this valuable info. After decreasing the file size of my pictures everything works great.
(2)Wrong Physics- So far I have had the ball curve the wrong direction twice!!! And yes, I am sure I was seeing it right.
(3)Putt Preview- The putt preview says it is going to go in and it doesn't, this has happened to me about 25 times so far. And yes, I hit the ball perfect at 100% power.
(4)Character Selection- I made 2 characters, one of me, and one of my girlfriend. I went to switch from me to my girlfriend and my character was on my girlfriends file with her name and her stats. luckily I don't use the autosave feature or else this could have possible become permanent, I was able to fix this issue by reloading her file.
(5)The Shot Stick- I like mine to be the right stick and the games default has always been on the left, so I changed it. Everything was working fine and then out of nowhere it changed back to the left stick! So I went to options to change it back. And it showed that it was set on the right stick, so I changed it to the left stick and that made it the right stick again. ***!!!
(6)Camera Angles- This was an issue that I had with Tiger 06 and I do see that they have gotten a little bit better but they still suck. I expected the camera angles to be perfect by now, I mean that is a very important feature in a golf game, to have a good understanding of where the ball went. Its not that hard, the camera should always chase the ball, no matter if its a drive or a putt. A close-up of a putt directly above the ball looking down from 1 foot away and not showing how far away from the hole I was is a major issue. The same thing with a drive that the camera is below the ball and all you see is blue sky in the background, it sucks. Come on EA I thought you would have realized by now that a golf game is Mostly all visual with some hitting the ball here and there. GOOD VISUALS MAKE GOOD GAMES! speaking of visuals lets get to my next point...
(7)Graphics- They are the same as Tiger 06, I just thought there would be some improvement after 2 years. Is that expecting too much?
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Control- Compared to Tiger 06 the controls in Tiger 08 are far too sensitive. It is far too easy to hook and slice. And putting doesn't seem as accurate. And I hate it when I'm putting and I line the shot up perfect with the right amount of power and the ball rolls over the hole!! come on, I did my part and lined everything up perfectly, cut me some slack! It is a game, its supposed to be fun, not make me mad!
(9)Animations- They are ***. Were is my Head Spin form Tiger 06?
(10)Menu System- It is very confusing to find things at first, I just feel that it could be made simpler.
My final statement is the only thing that makes Tiger woos 08 better than 06 is more courses and Photo game face. And there is allot that makes it worse. I feel that EA has had the same developers on this franchise since it first came out and they don't care much about it anymore because they are bored with it. And I also feel, no I also know that this game was released too soon without working all the bugs out of it because the only thing EA cares about is $$$ and not making great games.
