Other neat extras include a kickin' sound track you can turn off or set up as a jukebox to pump tunes throughout your game. You can also do a bit of this yourself in saved replays, which you store separately from your normal game save. A nice green-cam does a little bug's-eye view of where the hole lies in relation to your position, and periodically, when you really crank the ball, you'll get a video montage that shows you hitting from a bunch of different angles, looking like nicely edited footage. Controlling the camera during play is done in several ways, and at any point you have the option to do a fly-over showing the entire course ahead of you, or just pull the camera up above to see the course ahead for your next shot. Also, as you rack up points, you trade them in for player ability points and also 'tools of the trade' upgrades for club heads, shafts, gloves. Each character usually has an alternate outfit, so you can customize extensively. The player choices are all over the map, including Tiger himself, various other golf pros and some downright strange characters. Visually, all the eye candy you could ever want is here. But, then I went 6 over par, and that sucked hard. I can tell you truthfully that within the first few hours I sank a Double Eagle and did a Hole in One, and the announcers went friggin' wild. Sure, you'll be tempted to turn off the volume when you shank a ball into the sand, but you'll be glad to hear the praise and the applause when you sink a long putt or hit a long drive. Tiger offers his voice talent, but the play-by-play is where things really shine. From the announcing done during the flyover to the little comments made on each shot, PGA Tour 2003 has that ESPN experience nailed down. Nobody in the room with their eyes closed would be able to tell there's a video game on the screen as opposed to a televised match of golf.

Ironically, the chatter in PGA Tour 2003 almost trumps great graphics as the strongest contributor to why this game is so strong. The only real question I keep asking myself is why anyone would ever feel the need to buy another golf game, ever. To say PGA Tour 2003 is a golf sim is like saying Anna Nicole Smith is a scary freak. What makes Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 such a great experience has to traced back to a commitment to looking and sounding like the real thing. In keeping with the old adage about not fixing things that ain't broken, Tiger Woods makes an appearance on Gamecube with a follow-up to several very, very successful games.

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