Publishers must get a bit bored in the summer months. Sitting in their hot offices, flogging developers to reach their Q4 milestone in time for Xmas now and then, and occasionally daydreaming about what they are going to spend all that lovely wonga on when it comes flooding in after their latest triple-A hit tops the charts in the coming months.
Sometimes they get so bored that they decide to just change the names of their games. Just for a laugh. This, it seems, is what Oxygen has done with its forthcoming ‘revolutionary’ golf game previously known as World Tour Golf, now called ProStroke Golf World Tour 2007. We see that they have chosen to go with the very in vogue trend of missing out the space inbetween two formerly separate words. This, for some strange reason, irks us a little.
While SPOnG preferred the original, snappier title, it’s clear that Oxygen are hoping to develop ProStroke Golf into a brand. Though let’s not put the (golf) cart before the horse here! Before you have a brand, you have to have a few solid games under your belt. SPOnG will be popping up to the Oxygen office in the near future to check out ProStroke Golf World Tour 2007.
Otherwise, it’s pretty much business as usual up at Oxygen. ProStroke Golf is being marketed as “a faithful adaptation of one of the world’s most popular sports”. So far, it features eight international players, such as Sergio Garcia, Colin Montgomerie and Justin Rose, plus 18 well-known courses including the Brabazon at the De Vere Belfry and Lake Nona in Florida, with expert commentary on your game from TV favourites Alan Green, Sam Torrance and Ian Baker-Finch.
It's the ProStroke control mechanism that the publisher is talking up the most. This doesn’t involve actually stroking pro golfers, but instead “...provides a player’s eye view of the ball and club head and the chance to shape and adapt an infinite number of shots from fade, backspin and punching below branches.”
You can see the latest video trailer here, read about the control system in more detail in our earlier news piece here, and see all the up-to-date information and assets on World Tour… oops, on ProStroke Golf, right here.
Sometimes they get so bored that they decide to just change the names of their games. Just for a laugh. This, it seems, is what Oxygen has done with its forthcoming ‘revolutionary’ golf game previously known as World Tour Golf, now called ProStroke Golf World Tour 2007. We see that they have chosen to go with the very in vogue trend of missing out the space inbetween two formerly separate words. This, for some strange reason, irks us a little.
While SPOnG preferred the original, snappier title, it’s clear that Oxygen are hoping to develop ProStroke Golf into a brand. Though let’s not put the (golf) cart before the horse here! Before you have a brand, you have to have a few solid games under your belt. SPOnG will be popping up to the Oxygen office in the near future to check out ProStroke Golf World Tour 2007.
Otherwise, it’s pretty much business as usual up at Oxygen. ProStroke Golf is being marketed as “a faithful adaptation of one of the world’s most popular sports”. So far, it features eight international players, such as Sergio Garcia, Colin Montgomerie and Justin Rose, plus 18 well-known courses including the Brabazon at the De Vere Belfry and Lake Nona in Florida, with expert commentary on your game from TV favourites Alan Green, Sam Torrance and Ian Baker-Finch.
It's the ProStroke control mechanism that the publisher is talking up the most. This doesn’t involve actually stroking pro golfers, but instead “...provides a player’s eye view of the ball and club head and the chance to shape and adapt an infinite number of shots from fade, backspin and punching below branches.”
You can see the latest video trailer here, read about the control system in more detail in our earlier news piece here, and see all the up-to-date information and assets on World Tour… oops, on ProStroke Golf, right here.
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