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This is the best golf game on any console, ever. The rest of this review is sadly an elaboration on this concept as swinging a virtual club, with perfect response, in the US Open, complete with authentic commentary on perfectly realized courses, will be as close as many of us will ever get to our golfing dreams.

Tiger Woods 10 has reached all the way back to its impressive beginnings and with the help of the Wii MotionPlus, become the ultimate in electronic golf. Suffice to say that the Wii MotionPlus is a money spinner on most of the other titles Nintendo are spamming us with; in this game it absolutely makes all the difference. It is now possible to accurately fade or draw a shot and if you hook or slice in real life, chances are you will be swearing here too.

Gameplay is magnificent; from the setting up of a drive down to the new precision putting, there is real muscle memory and somehow you learn to calibrate your swings to the required percentages – it really is that good.

The title squeezes every drop of realism from the poor little Wii. That said, golf is very much about scenery and while the courses are as beautiful and accurate as can be expected from zombie ATi inside, we couldn’t help but hunger for something this good in HD, we’d even settle for smooth edges on Super Tiger.

Gameplay and the easy access to competition, however, will bail out (golf lingo) most of the graphical shortfalls and the myriad of modes, both on and offline, are enough to keep the rabbits and the vets satisfied (more golf lingo). From Disc Golf to Tours this game has everything.

Frustration is synonymous with real golf too and there are times when you will want to snap your virtual club. That said, there are some minor issues with Tiger Woods that will take some getting used to. Chief of these is the ability to fool the controller. Time and time again you will be outdriven by opponents that turn everything all 1337 slo-mo by a tennis slice. It’s frustrating and in the long run they do run out of fluke but what’s more alarming is that the game might not be the best thing for your real swing.

That said Tiger Woods is not a substitute for real practice and while the title will keep the hardcore golfers happy on those rainy days, it is also a blast for everyone else too. It’s easy to pick up, impossible to put down and is without doubt the best in its genre, ever.