EA has announced the release date of EA Sports PGA Tour, the revived golf game series coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on 24th March 2023. Pre-orders can secure three days of early access from 21st March.
Alongside the announcement, EA has also released a new trailer, showcasing the brand new Pure Strike system and other parts of the gameplay. Pure Strike leans into EA’s partnerships with ShotLink and TrackMan, real world technologies that have been tracking and analysing pro golfer swings, shots, play styles and more. Pure Strike combines this into ensuring that each golf shot in the game has a fluid swing mechanic, accurate ball behaviour through the air and as it bounces and rolls on different terrain, and interacts with course dynamics that have been tuned to match the real life courses.
EA Sports PGA Tour has secured the exclusive license for the four majors, as well as 30 real world courses that have been recreated through the use of helicopter and drone LIDAR scanning, as well as photogrammetry for unique course features and clubhouses. More majors courses will be included post-launch.
You’ll be able to create your own pro golfer, both male and female, as the PGA and LPGA tours are both represented in game. You then have an RPG-like progression system, learning new shot types and levelling up as you work to become a major champion and compete in the FedExCup.
Additionally, there will be plenty of online and offline mutliplayer modes, and a live challenge mode that EA can add new challenges to on-the-fly, recreating scenarios shortly after real players have faced them in real life.
Originally planned for release in Spring 2022, EA Tiburon missed that target, and they clearly decided that it would be best to delay the game for a whole year, to really hit the prime golfing season through the northern hemisphere’s summer and with all the licensed majors running their course. It’s been eight years since Rory McIlroy PGA Tour in 2015, with a rival golf series from 2K and HB Studios springing up in the intervening years, morphing from The Golf Club into the PGA Tour 2K series. It won’t be long before we find out which of the two rival games will be the winner…
Source: press release
