True Swing Golf tees off for the DS

by James Ransom-Wiley { Jan 17th 2006 at 12:45PM }

Believe it or not, but the latest golf sim for the DS will not feature familiar faces from the Nintendo universe. No plumbers, no cuddly mushroom people, not even an unlockable ape. With the stylus as your virtual club, True Swing Golf has more in common with the bar room classic, Golden Tee, than it does with other golf titles. That's right, if a drunken fool can play, anyone can. True to the Nintendo standard, True Swing offers an intuitive interface, accessible to all types of gamers—and like any good golf game, it takes time to master. True Swing will make its North American debut next Monday, January 23.

[The game also features four-player multiplayer with only one cartridge]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Spence @ Jan 17th 2006 12:53PM

Wonder how many games Nintendo would sell without this DS download play technology.

Sagan @ Jan 17th 2006 12:57PM

Pictochat in Multiplayer will be so great :).

Bloo @ Jan 17th 2006 1:00PM

I prefer watered down PS2 ports with single cart play and long loading times. Forget this! Who really wants to play games anyways when you can watch little movies or listen to music instead?

mucko @ Jan 17th 2006 1:23PM

BTW, this game doesn't release until next Tuesday (24th) as far as I can tell.

(Excellent comment, Bloo. That's the best sarcasm I've heard this year so far! I agree -- with your sarcasm, that is.)

darryl @ Jan 17th 2006 1:30PM

I sure bet it won't look anything like the picture for the story though... Rather nice and... crusty, DS-style.

Brian @ Jan 17th 2006 1:33PM

I take issue with your broad generalization that Golden Tee players are "Drunken Fools". As long as sweeping offensive generalizations are being tossed about, I would like to suggest that Nintendo DS gamers are "a bunch of zit-faced pre-pubescent weeines who couldn't get a date to save their lives". When you live in a glass house...

endlessnameless @ Jan 17th 2006 1:55PM

Well, I've only been in maybe a dozen different bars and easily 10 of them had golden tee and not all of the players were completely smashed out of their heads, but a good majority were.

Mike @ Jan 17th 2006 1:55PM

This was one of my sleeper hits back at E3 2005. I enjoyed this game a lot. Of course I only spent 5 minutes with it. And no, the graphics don't look like the picture above. They are kinda jagged (unless it has been polished up quite a bit, which I guess is a possibility since it was so long ago when I played it). Anyways, I really enjoyed the touch screen controls. It seemed like a fun and intuitive way to play a golf game. I just hope it will still be entertaining after playing it for an hour or two.