Everyone can enjoy Swingerz Golf! Play golf in the great outdoors!
- NA release: 23rd October 2002
- JP release: 28th November 2002
- EU release: 6th December 2002
- Developer: Telenet Japan
- Publisher: Eidos
- NGC Magazine Score: 75%
- Mods Used: Widescreen Hack
Swingerz Golf, or Act Golf as it was called in Europe (due to a stronger meaning of “swingers” here), is a golf game that tries to straddle the line between silly fun and simulation. It has a colourful cast of characters and crazy clubs to choose from, yet features rather regular courses to play on. It looks decent for the most part, but I really think that extending the colourful nature of the characters over to the courses would have helped.
The gameplay is the same. It takes a control scheme from some Japanese N64 golf games I hated: using the analogue stick to swing. It does make it slightly better due to the use of the c-stick so you can get straight into swinging without having to press a button after you finish aiming, but I’ve never been accurate at it. There feels like there’s no consistency, with my shots not going close to the target, even when I get 100% power and “excellent” accuracy.
There are a few additional things to extend the game, such as a mission mode and some minigames, but when I can’t get on with the core gameplay, they have the exact same problems.
Fine
This is quite nice. Not brilliant, not bad – just nice. Like a nice cup of tea. Despite golf games not really being that high on our agenda, this turned out to be a competent, highly enjoyable – not to mention relaxing – piece of software.
Geraint Evans, NGC Magazine #74
Remake or remaster?
There are more interesting golf games.
Official Ways to get the game
There’s no official way to get Swingerz Golf.
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