The Blog for the Sports Gamer Three guys who love Sports Gaming rant and rave about various stuff.

Wednesday note

- Wow.  Tiger is terrific. My first round with my created player ended up +5 after a ton of par saves, including a chip in to save par from the fringe.  The Wii version is so much more challenging than the demo version that I played for the 360 and PS3.  I'm constantly yanking the ball to one side of the course or another.

Another thing that caught me off guard when I was practicing was the fact that you actually need to do a real follow through.  I was thinking, ok, this isn't going to be like a real swing, so I'll just half ass it. Big mistake there.

I wouldn't be shocked if there is a brand new bout of Wii sports injuries due to the Wii Motion Plus though.  This was the first time that I actually used the controller strap in a while.... I was actually worried when I was doing a real swing that I might let go and that would be a very, very bad thing.

The Disc Golf game looks like it could be fun as well... but I only spent a few minutes with it.

This is easily the most enjoyable golf game that I've played in quite a while.   Probably the most enjoyable sports game as well.

- I spent about an hour playing Hakuna Matata (Afrika) for the PS3 with my daughter the other day.  The game is amazing graphically and the detail for the animals is amazing.

The basic premise for the game is that you're a photographer on safari and you get missions to take pictures of certain animals in their natural environments.  The one thing that surprised me was the fact that the game really makes you be patient in order to get the shots that you want.  It's not as long as you would have to wait in real life, but the fact that you can't just drive to a pond, take a picture and be done with it, is kind of refreshing.

Oh, and hippos don't like you getting too close to take a picture.  I got charged by one... my daughter is still talking about why the hippos got so angry with us.

- I'm going for my first goalie lesson tomorrow morning (at 5:30...ugh.)  One of the former goalies for the Badgers does lessons in the area and, as I desperately need to start figuring out how to get better at the game, I'm going to take my first shot at it.

Being a goalie is not really like any other position in a sport that I've ever played.  You can rely on your reactions for a little while... but as you play more and more... people really expose your flaws in a hurry.

Hopefully the lessons can make me a bit less of a sieve.... I've been incredibly weak, low to the right and left of late.  Just not reacting quickly enough... Hoping I can get a bit of good coaching on that.

That'll about do it for now... lots of work and such to keep me busy.