Sid Meier's SimGolf
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Designed by Sid Meier for Maxis' Sim series, SimGolf combines golf course building simulator with isometric golf game.
Your mission is to create golf course that looks exciting and difficult, but is easy enough that your club members don't get frustrated and can finish the course. Each hole will be rated and given characteristics based on the way you built it. To keep club members happy you also have to have as much variation in the holes as possible as well tending to their needs, such as hunger, thirst and energy.
Depending on the number of holes on your course you can also have golf tournaments arranged on your course, even big televised tournaments. You can take part in the tournaments with your own pro golfer. In addition to tournaments you can also earn money by accepting challenges from richer members of your golf club and play with them for money.
There are also small RPG elements to the game, as your pro golfer earns new skills by doing and there are also special decoration for courses that give status effects to your player.
The course builder in SimGolf is an easy-to-use system. To build a course, the player begins by placing a tee box and a putting green, then adding bunkers, sand traps, rough patches, water holes, and many other things that make a course more difficult. The balance the player has to achieve is a level of challenge that isn't overbearing, while maintaining a pleasant atmosphere. Plotting your holes can be quite simple; after you place a tee box and a green a white line will show what the game believes is the shortest route to the hole. You have to design your holes well or the line and in turn, the golfers, will mistake what fairway goes with what hole and it could possibly make them less happy.
As you play SimGolf you will notice that every once in a while a picture will be taken. When this happens you have reached a Milestone. There are many milestones you can reach such as creating a par five hole or winning your first tournament. Milestones don't really do anything but they let you know how you are progressing.
There are a number of special golfers who will play your course from time to time. These people are different from your regular golfers in that they will grant you things that will aide your course.
There are a number of ways to make money in SimGolf. Some of them include:
Green Fees: This is the most obvious way. At the end of each hole the person playing it pays green fees. Green Fees can be raised by expanding your course and building structures.
Food/Drinks: Another way to make money is to sell drinks to golfers using staff who sell refreshments or by feeding golfers at restaurants after you build them.
Challenges: From time to time you get challenges frim pro golfers. Unlike playing a regular round of golf, the stakes are raised substantially. You get a certain amount of money for each hole you win and a total amount for getting the best score. Keep in mind that if you lose you must pay the other golfer.
Tournaments: The biggest way to make money. You face off in a huge tournament against a number of pros and you can get large sums of money if you win. You get prize money for getting in the top five.
Real Estate: You can also make money from selling space on your course for housing. You get payed more or less based on the location of the building site. Ex: You will get a lot more money if you put a site in a secluded area near water versus an opened area beside a hole.
Sandbox Mode takes away all of the monetary aspects of the game and just lets you create a course to your liking and play it.
Tournament mode is strictly about playing golf. You do not have to worry about keeping golfers happy or tending to the course. You can play your own courses, pre-built courses or downloaded courses.
Build a thriving golf empire in this golf simulation from Sid Meier.
Overview
Create your own golf course
Your mission is to create golf course that looks exciting and difficult, but is easy enough that your club members don't get frustrated and can finish the course. Each hole will be rated and given characteristics based on the way you built it. To keep club members happy you also have to have as much variation in the holes as possible as well tending to their needs, such as hunger, thirst and energy.
Depending on the number of holes on your course you can also have golf tournaments arranged on your course, even big televised tournaments. You can take part in the tournaments with your own pro golfer. In addition to tournaments you can also earn money by accepting challenges from richer members of your golf club and play with them for money.
There are also small RPG elements to the game, as your pro golfer earns new skills by doing and there are also special decoration for courses that give status effects to your player.
Course Design
The course builder in SimGolf is an easy-to-use system. To build a course, the player begins by placing a tee box and a putting green, then adding bunkers, sand traps, rough patches, water holes, and many other things that make a course more difficult. The balance the player has to achieve is a level of challenge that isn't overbearing, while maintaining a pleasant atmosphere. Plotting your holes can be quite simple; after you place a tee box and a green a white line will show what the game believes is the shortest route to the hole. You have to design your holes well or the line and in turn, the golfers, will mistake what fairway goes with what hole and it could possibly make them less happy.
Milestones
As you play SimGolf you will notice that every once in a while a picture will be taken. When this happens you have reached a Milestone. There are many milestones you can reach such as creating a par five hole or winning your first tournament. Milestones don't really do anything but they let you know how you are progressing.
Special Golfers
There are a number of special golfers who will play your course from time to time. These people are different from your regular golfers in that they will grant you things that will aide your course.
I.M Picky
- He, as his name implies, is an incredibly picky person. If he completes your course and is happy when he finishes he will offer to sell you new land so you can expand your course. The price of the land he sells is based on how the terrain is. Ex: If the land is covered in water it will be much cheaper than if it is just regular, short grass.Ivanna Richman
- This wealthy heiress is, while less important than I.M Picky, still someone you should pay attention to. If she finishes your course happy she will donate a landmark to put on your course. Landmarks have special abilities that help keep your course under control. Ex: Keeping golfers happy or stopping weeds from growing.Ways to Make Money
There are a number of ways to make money in SimGolf. Some of them include:
Green Fees: This is the most obvious way. At the end of each hole the person playing it pays green fees. Green Fees can be raised by expanding your course and building structures.
Food/Drinks: Another way to make money is to sell drinks to golfers using staff who sell refreshments or by feeding golfers at restaurants after you build them.
Challenges: From time to time you get challenges frim pro golfers. Unlike playing a regular round of golf, the stakes are raised substantially. You get a certain amount of money for each hole you win and a total amount for getting the best score. Keep in mind that if you lose you must pay the other golfer.
Tournaments: The biggest way to make money. You face off in a huge tournament against a number of pros and you can get large sums of money if you win. You get prize money for getting in the top five.
Real Estate: You can also make money from selling space on your course for housing. You get payed more or less based on the location of the building site. Ex: You will get a lot more money if you put a site in a secluded area near water versus an opened area beside a hole.
Sandbox Mode
Sandbox Mode takes away all of the monetary aspects of the game and just lets you create a course to your liking and play it.
Tournament Mode
Tournament mode is strictly about playing golf. You do not have to worry about keeping golfers happy or tending to the course. You can play your own courses, pre-built courses or downloaded courses.
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