12DOVE Verdict
Pros
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Greater sense of shotcraft
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18 courses - nice haul
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Designing your own holes
Cons
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Mystifying ball behavior
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Uglier than launch-day Tiger
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Dozens of little annoyances
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In games like Tiger Woods, you typically choose which shot to hit with a button - not too natural. Instead, ProStroke finds you adjusting your strike the way the pros do: by tweaking the position of your feet, moving the ball slightly forward or behind, and swinging slightly under or over the ball (to impart spin). Hence: more realism.
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| Genre | Sports |
| Description | The bevy of shortcomings and bad design decisions work so hard to suck the fun out of the experience. |
| Platform | "PS2","Xbox","PC","PSP" |
| US censor rating | "Everyone","Everyone","Everyone","Everyone" |
| UK censor rating | "","","","" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
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