Urban Golf swings onto your phone
Think Gleneagles is tough? Try the backstreets of New York!
Golf games are boring. There, I've said it.
They're so focused on being realistic simulations, most of them end up as dull as real-life golfers. And besides, as anyone who's ever swung a club down their local park knows, there's not enough chances to break stuff in mobile games – windows, car doors, passers by…
Well, I-play is hoping to rectify that with NYC Urban Golf, which has you driving, chipping and putting a tennis ball through the streets of New York. For each 'hole', you have to hit a specified object, which could be anything from a rubbish bin or billboard through to a not-so-friendly policeman's car. Bizarrely, people actually do this in the real world (click here for proof).
The action in the game takes place across three environments – Downtown, Docks and Industrial – and you amass Mayhem Points along the way for hitting (and breaking) random objects.
I-play has even wrapped a story around the action, based on the slightly preposterous notion that New York gangs now use golf clubs rather than guns to settle their turf disputes.
NYC Urban Golf promises to bring a new spin to the golf genre, slotting neatly into the yawning gap between the yawnsome serious sims, and more casual mini-golf games. Click 'Track It!' to read our review later this month.
