Having earlier reviewed the classic Konami's Ping Pong, I now turn my attention to one of Konami's other sports games in Konami's Golf.
Obviously it is a golf game where you play a nine-hole 36 Par course. You can either play one player stroke play or two player stroke play as well as two player match play. In stroke play you simply play all nine holes and tally up a total score, in match play you compete against each other with the player with the lowest score in the hole wins the hole, the player who wins the most holes is the winner.
Before each shot you have to determine where you want your ball to land while paying attention to wind which will affect the ball's movement, during this you can also choose your type of shot from straight, hook or slick. Once you've done that you get to determine the power of your shot with a colour meter below, which during this you get to choose the club you wish to use for your shot, the lower the club, the less the ball will travel, for example if your shot is 141m to the green you will want to use your 5 iron, but if there is strong wind heading towards the green you may want to use a lower club. You are aided by a birds-eye map of the current hole on the right hand side of the screen.
As this is a golf game you would think this would be pretty straightforward, but it isn't. It's actually quite clumsy. The map is hardly helpful as it would at times state the ball's landed in the rough yet from the main view the ball is actually on the fairway. Also, the two player mode is easily more enjoyable than one player, especially the match play, but there is a problem which I've encountered twice. When you are both on the green and the balls are near each other it's hard to determine who's shot is who.
Clearly Konami's Golf isn't the best golf game out there. There isn't a lot to this apart from match play as once you play the nine holes that's it, so it's short and repetition sets it fairly quickly. Obviously there are better golf games out there than this.
by Choice Software Ltd
Spent a lot of time playing this at the time, but compared to the coeval Leader Board it completely disappears, or it just appears clumsy.
2,75/5
