Where Outlaw Golf 2 beats any other golf game is in the amount of game types, and game modes. The game includes Stroke Play, which anyone common with golf knows what this is. Match play, skins game, best ball, and scramble. One game mode, known as My One and Only, includes taking on the course with only one club and your putter. Imagine the difficulty of playing the entire game with just your driver and a putter. Pretty tough to chip it in from sixty-five yards using a driver. Trust me. One game mode is called Casino, where you will gamble as you golf. Bet on every shot, and take the pot at the end of each hole. This one is especially fun to play with friends. Try using real money for added effect. Time attack, and bingo bango. In Bingo Bango three points are awarded for each hole. The first point goes to whomever reaches the green. The second point goes to whomever is closest to the pin after everybody has reached the green, and the third point to whomever sinks the shot in fewest strokes. Vegas, where each player on a team combines their scores, high low, and pick up sticks. In Pick Up Sticks, if you win the hole, you are allowed to take a club out of your opponents golf bag, and to get it back they must win a hole. How gratifying is it to take your opponent’s clubs so that he is driving with a pigeon wedge. My personal favorite game mode, baseball golf. In Baseball Golf, you are awarded runs. For a par, you will get a single, a birdie is a double, an eagle or better is a homerun. A bogey is an out, a double bogey is a double play, and a triple bogey or worse becomes a triple play. To win the game you have to score the most runs after eighteen holes. After my years of playing baseball, I enjoy playing baseball golf too. So where Outlaw Golf 2 may be lacking in other areas, it is certainly not lacking in the game mode area. There is so much to choose from here, that you will be busy for days just trying out all of the modes.
The chances are, if you’re reading this review, you aren’t looking for a golf simulation like Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. And of course, if you are, well this is not the game for you. Outlaw Golf 2 builds on a pretty successful first game, and takes it a few steps further. The new game modes, and ability to play online will add a decent amount of replay ability to this solid game. The gameplay is completely arcade. This is a game you’d expect to find in an arcade costing you fifty-cents to play a hole. Of course here you get to play all of the holes, and all of the game modes. So in Outlaw Golf 2, you’ll find the solid arcade golf game you’ve been looking for, but not a whole lot more.
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Outlaw Golf 2 is a solid arcade golf game, however, not a whole lot more. If you are looking for Tiger Woods 2005 gameplay in this game, well, you will not find it. Serious arcade gamers only.
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