Golf PGA Tour 2K21 release date, courses, price and review

PGA Tour 2K21 is a sports video game developed by HB Studios and published by 2K Sports for Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. PGA Tour official site stated ‘Play against the pros. Play with your crew. In PGA TOUR 2K21, you can play by the rules or create your own‘ PGA Tour 2K21 received positive reviews, with critics acknowledging that the game preserved the extent of realism seen in its predecessors, while adding more difficulty levels and assists to make it more accessible to a wider audience. It’s a continuation of The Golf Club franchise integrated with 2K Sports and the second game in the franchise to include a PGA Tour license. Find everything you need to know on Golf PGA Tour 2K21 release date, courses, price and review

In the box

• Base game
• Bonus 2300 Currency
• 2K/adidas Code Chaos MyPLAYER Pack: Swing with swag! Deck out your PGA TOUR 2K21 MyPLAYER with a signal green and core black look featuring adidas CodeChaos BOA Golf Shoes, and custom 2K/adidas CodeChaos Polo, Pants and Hat, designed by adidas, exclusively for PGA TOUR 2K21.
• Golden Touch Pack: Hit the golf course and swing with class using the Golden Touch Pack included in the Digital Deluxe Edition. This pack features a gold-plated putter and gold-plated 10.5 driver that will turn heads while you dominate the green.

Golf PGA Tour 2K21 release date

• Xbox One – August 21, 2020
• PS4™ – August 21, 2020
• PC – August 21, 2020
• Nintendo Switch (Digital) – August 21, 2020
• Nintendo Switch (Physical) – September 25, 2020

Golf PGA Tour 2K21 video review

Top 6 reasons to buy Golf PGA Tour 2K21

MYPLAYER & COURSE option
Create and personalize your MyPLAYER with equipment and apparel from brands you love. Design your ultimate course with 1,000s of custom options.

PGA TOUR PROS AND NEW COURSES
Play against Justin Thomas and 11 top pros on stunning, real-life courses including TPC Sawgrass, East Lake Golf Club, and more.

CAREER MODE – ALL NEW
Prove you’ve got what it takes to become FedExCup Champion. Take on PGA TOUR Pros during your very own career, earning rewards and gear along the way.

GET THE PARTY STARTED
Hit the links with friends by playing local and online matches, including Alt-Shot, Stroke Play, Skins and 4-Player Scramble.

DIFFERENT SKILL LEVELS
Rookies can take advantage of real-time tutorials, tips and shot suggestions. Already a pro? Master your game with Pro Vision, Distance Control, Putt Preview, and other innovations.

THE MOST REALISTIC COURSES EVER
Real-world scanning brings the fairway, green, bunkers, trees, lakes and ponds to life! True-to-form PGA TOUR broadcast presentation features slick graphics, dynamic cut-scenes and a seamless replay system, all anchored by the play-by-play commentary of Luke Elvy and Rich Beem.

MAKE YOUR OWN RULES
Command your Clubhouse with Online Societies. Run full seasons and tournaments and earn bragging rights on the course. Create entry rules and requirements as well as handicap and event settings.

Golf PGA Tour 2K21 review

Quality

PGA Tour 2K21 has some beefed up visuals compared to HB Studio’s previous efforts. The courses look much better than they ever have, with more detail and realism. However, the biggest jump in quality comes with the golfers themselves. Action replays have a higher degree of polish so that they look like television graphics, and in-game commentators Luke Elvy and Rich Beem also make a big difference in making PGA Tour 2K21 feel like an official product.

Customise player and dress

You can select up to five outfits that act as pre-sets, and throughout your career, new apparel and clubs are unlocked. It provides more control over your created character than The Golf Club, and a better sense of achievement: your MyPlayer can be used throughout all of the different modes, whether you’re taking part in career, local multiplayer with friends, or a leisurely 18 holes on your lonesome. You pick everything from your name, gender, weight, and height, as well as what you wear and what club sets you have.

Multiplayer

PGA Tour 2K21 also has a set of robust multiplayer offerings. All the standard options, such as Match Play, Stroke Play, and Skins are all available in local and online multiplayer, and jumping into an online game is an easy process. There are also Societies, which act as a sort of custom league and once set up, they allow players to compete against each other in special seasonal tournaments or start smaller competitions with the creator’s custom rules.

Levels and help tools

There are six difficulty levels that range from beginner to legendary, and they can be customised to give you as much or as little help as you want. PGA Tour 2K21 offers assists in the form of Partial Swing, Dynamic Shot-Shaping, and Yardage Book.

 You can adjust how much support you have when it comes to shaping your shot and how much spin you need to put on the ball. The Yardage Book is perhaps the best tool at your disposal when it comes to understanding each course.

Golf PGA Tour 2K21 Career mode

As mentioned at the top, the marketing of “2K21“ has focused on its licensing agreements – with the PGA Tour, with tournament sponsors, with a list of pros, with 15 real-world courses, and with equipment and apparel manufacturers. It’s worth running through it. Here’s the real-world stuff in the game:

Golf PGA Tour 2K21 Courses (and tournaments)

• Atlantic Beach Country Club
• Copperhead Course at Innisbrook (Valspar Championship)
• East Lake Golf Club (Tour Championship)
• Quail Hollow Club (Wells Fargo Championship)
• Riviera Country Club (Genesis Invitational)
• TPC Boston (The Northern Trust)
• TPC Deere Run (John Deere Classic)
• TPC Louisiana (Zurich Classic)
• TPC River Highlands (Travelers Championship)
• TPC San Antonio (Valero Texas Open)
• TPC Sawgrass (The Players Championship)
• TPC Scottsdale (Waste Management Phoenix Open)
• TPC Southwind (WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational)
• TPC Summerlin (Shriners Hospitals for Children Open)
• TPC Twin Cities (3M Open)

Available PGA Tour pros

• Patrick Cantlay
• Cameron Champ
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Tony Finau
• Jim Furyk
• Sergio Garcia
• Billy Horschel
• Matt Kuchar
• Kevin Kisner
• Ian Poulter
• Justin Thomas
• Gary Woodland

Equipment and apparel

• Adidas
• Ben Hogan
• Bridgestone
• Callaway
• Grand Slam
• Hugo Boss
• Jack Nicklaus
• Malbon
• Penguin
• Polo Ralph Lauren
• Puma
• Royal and Awesome
• Skechers
• Tattoo Golf
• TaylorMade
• Under Armour
• Wilson

You encounter these elements by working your way through career mode. You play events, you earn in-game currency, you spend that currency on clubs and apparel to spruce up your create-a-golfer. If that sounds a little too familiar, that’s because it is; it is very much a return to the career mode players received from EA Sports.

Golf PGA Tour 2K21 Courses

The development tools on offer are the same ones used to create the game, making the course designer as intricate or as simple as you like. Not only can you create your perfect hole in course designer, but you can download thousands of courses to play alone or with friends. There are different locations such as tropical, countryside, desert, or the Swiss Alps, and from there you have free rein on which obstacles feature.

Golf PGA Tour 2K21 Customer review

I particularly enjoyed the experience of mastering windy conditions in PGA Tour 2K21. The first time I encountered winds pushing 15 miles per hour I struggled to four over par for the tournament (it was the Waste Management Phoenix Open and I appropriately served up my share of trash). This was because, despite the fact I had wind direction and speed indicators to assist me, I still needed to get a feel for clubbing up into a headwind or effectively using draws and fades to negate or ride more lateral gales, which eventually came through practice. Playing PGA Tour 2K21 on its medium difficulty ultimately felt like a really well balanced experience to me, someone who’s played almost every golf game released in the last 20 years, but it’s worth noting that all of the guides and timing windows can be adjusted or disabled according to your personal preference or aptitude level.

By Tristan Ogilvie, IGN

System requirements

MINIMUM

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 7×64 / Windows 8.1×64 / Windows 10×64
• Processor: Intel Core i5-760 @ 2.80GHz or equivalent
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5770 or NVIDIA GTX 650 with 1GB Video Ram
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 12 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device

RECOMMENDED

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 7×64 / Windows 8.1×64 / Windows 10×64
• Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz or equivalent
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7850 or NVIDIA GTX 660 with 2GB video RAM
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 12 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device

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