{"id":4163,"date":"2015-07-14T06:58:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2015-07-14T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:59:09","slug":"incoming-rory-mcllroy-pga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2015\/07\/14\/incoming-rory-mcllroy-pga-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming, Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely get all hot and bothered these days over an IGN review, but this <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ysxDhotfeh\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/t.co\/ysxDhotfeh', 'tweet');\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a> caught my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stacked up against the two-year-old Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, the new game has roughly half the number of courses to play on, about a quarter of the licensed players to choose from (with both the Legends and the female LPGA players gone entirely), and a create-a-player tool that ditches the customary eyebrow shaping and body sculpting of the older game in favour of a handful of set templates that are almost guaranteed to look absolutely nothing like you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds like EA\u2019s typical first generation releases on new consoles, only EA took a year off from the Tiger franchise.  BTW, why does it need Rory in the title?  Why not just PGA Tour with Rory on the cover?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-4\/rory-mcilroy-pga-tour\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-4\/rory-mcilroy-pga-tour', 'metacritic scores');\" target=\"_blank\">metacritic scores<\/a> are all over the map at this point. My copy should arrive tomorrow, and hopefully the game will not be a let down.  If it is, I\u2019ll (hopefully) flip it on eBay before its stock drops like a can of beans, and I can always go back to the enjoyable The Golf Club, which received undeserving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-4\/the-golf-club\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/playstation-4\/the-golf-club', 'sub-par metacritic scores.');\" target=\"_blank\">sub-par metacritic scores.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely get all hot and bothered these days over an IGN review, but this tweet caught my attention: Stacked up against the two-year-old Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, the new game has roughly half the number of courses to play on, about a quarter of the licensed players to choose from (with both the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2015\/07\/14\/incoming-rory-mcllroy-pga-tour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incoming, Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games-2","tag-ps4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}