Game review: Hot Shots Golf Fore! (SCEA)

9/9/2004

In this installation of Hot Shots Golf, players will find themselves in the familiar territory of teeing off as whimsical cartoon players trying to whack the ball into an insanely faraway hole.

Some refinements in the three button tap swing process have been made, and online gameplay has been added to keep Fore! fresh and exciting. More than a dozen unique courses (as well as a miniature golf course) and 30 offbeat characters are playable, which keeps the replay value high.

Even though the visuals and intentionally shallow gameplay of Fore! may seem a bit lacking compared to a title like Tiger Woods, it's a fun game with lots of variety and certainly worth picking up.

If golf of the Happy Gilmore variety is your game, then Fore! is for you.

Jake Jones