Outlaw Golf

Great Golf, Bad Attitude

Edgy sports games were a big trend in this era, and one core point that many stuck to was that every single character had to be someone everyone would hate and nobody would want to play as. Which is a rather odd choice. Like other golf games, Outlaw Golf uses the swing via analogue stick mechanic but also does it in a way that’s half way towards the classic button tap a bar method. After you finish aiming, you press A and it shows a power bar, which fills as you pull back. It still takes skill to get 100%, but you can actually see what you’re doing – it even gives you a recommended percentage to aim for. I found shots to be far more consistent than the other GameCube golf games so far (other than Super Monkey Ball 2).

What lets Outlaw Golf down is the course design. There’s only three, and they’re quite poorly designed. The very first hole features a bridge that you WILL hit if you pull off a decent tee. There’s also a strange mechanic where your character gets annoyed if you land on the rough and performs worse, with you having to beat up your caddy to calm your player down. All rather odd. Which makes it even stranger that this seems to be the best analogue stick swing mechanic for golf I’ve come across so far.

The Outlaw series would go on for a few more sports (and a second Golf game), but none of them made it to the GameCube. The developer was then purchased and merged into EA.

Fine

Remake or remaster?

There are better golf games.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to get Outlaw Golf.

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