Nick Faldo s Golf

STORY / GAMEPLAY
This is a golf game so if you haven't played one on a computer you'll have to first practice a lot. In this way you'll have the option to tune up your putting, bunker play and several other potentially problematic areas. When satisfied with your progress you may go to shoot a round. Up to four players can take part in either stroke play or match play (competing hole by hole). The gameplay is easy as long as you master your skills with practice. Nevertheless, the controls method of the swing-o-meter is a bit awkward; it is presented as a double-click power-bar on the left and it's a bugger to grip with! Note also that, although the accuracy point grows with success, it actually diminishes with the reverse, resulting in early frustrations. Other than those two drawbacks, the game is great fun to play and won't disappoint!

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The game has cool graphics. Although the colors are limited to 32, Nick Faldo's Golf looks great with its rather pseudo-3D environment. There is a very reasonable facsimile of a golf course, complete with blades of grass, beautifully detailed trees, sandy bunkers and more plus the main sprite! Nick himself sports an impressive array of tank tops and basks in an all digitized glory! Such is the smoothness of realism, that when a shot is taken it looks as though you are watching a piece of video footage. Very impressive indeed for its time. The game was also released for the AGA chipsets and DOS PCs, featuring 256 colors on-screen.
The sound is typical, with only a few ambient sampled effects like bird sounds, club swishes etc while there is also a nice music score at the main menu.