The RPG elements that are part and parcel of the majority of sports games aren't a casual overlay - they're as intricate and detailed as the loot and skills in the likes of Diablo.Īt the base level you've got a slim selection of different golfers with different starting abilities - you can think of them as your classes. If anything, Powerstar Golf runs deeper than its PlayStation counterpart - and quite likely any other golf game out there. Its debt goes beyond the aesthetic, and the clean and simple game of golf that Powerstar offers is backed up by a deep pool of systems. What'll be waiting there for you is a take on the sport that's more Everybody's Golf than Tiger Woods - in fact, with its soft-edged caricatures and beaming colour palette, Powerstar owes an awful lot to Clap Hanz's long-running PlayStation series. Having started off as an Xbox 360 downloadable game built around avatars, Microsoft liked what they saw enough to give Brighton-based developers Zoe Mode a boost up to its next-generation console, and to have Powerstar Golf prepared to be sitting on the Xbox One's download store on day one. It's humbler than the likes of Dead Rising 3, Ryse or Forza Motorsport, but it occupies a different, more relaxed space. All of which makes some of the less hyped games like Zoo Tycoon all the more pleasing, as I discovered last week - and Powerstar Golf's another little surprise awaiting people who pick up an Xbox One at launch. Big console launches are exciting enough, but they're often short on surprises - after months of build-up, hype and planning, when whichever big black box you've opted for arrives in your living room on day one there's never that much room in the launch line-up for unknown quantities.
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