Sitting down to play Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 on the Nintendo Wii is a whole lot like visiting someone who used to be a close friend but you've fallen out of touch with despite only living a mile apart. At first, upon greeting one another there may be a tiny bit of trepidation, but pretty soon you're laughing and having fun just like old times. At least, you're having fun again for a little while, but pretty soon you start to remember that maybe you two didn't just stop being friends, that there actually may have been a reason for it.
As we all know, the Nintendo Wii as a console has some drawbacks, many of which surround Nintendo's decision to focus on the motion-sensing system and not try to one-up Sony and Microsoft in terms of processor power and therefore graphical capabilities. That being said, where the Wii truly excels, where it can and should offer more fun than any other console, is when it comes to sports titles and specifically golf, baseball, cricket, tennis, and just about anything that requires a bat or club. The Wii remote is, essentially, a mini-club and any game that revolves around swinging it in some manner is right up the Wii's alley.
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That's why Tiger Woods should be a homerun every single year it comes out – you're swinging a mini-golf club with the Wii remote, there can be no more natural a fit for the system. Last year, the much ballyhooed Wii MotionPlus sensor came out and provided even more accurate motion-sensing abilities making Tiger Woods 10 head and shoulders better than the previous Wii incarnations. Not quite content to rest on their laurels, EA did make a number of changes to this year's game, some of which work better than others.
To be very clear and upfront about this however – and this is a crucial bit of information for Wii owners – you need to play this game with MotionPlus. Without MotionPlus not only will several of the new swing features/views not work, putting is either impossible or far too easy, and the general response one gets to a swing far too variable. No matter how consistently you believe yourself to be swinging the Wii remote, without MotionPlus — and the game will let you play without it (you just may not want to) — it feels almost as if the game is kind of making things up.
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