This app is available at the app store for only $4.99.  I would gladly pay 8.99 for this app.

Anyone who has ever played golf as a video game can skip over the tutorials and go straight to tournament play. Let’s Golf is a well put together app that will entertain any golf enthusiast.  The game play is on par with any xbox or playstation version of golf.  The graphics are interesting and well made.  There are only a couple of minor suggested improvements, but the positives far outweigh the negatives.  

Official Description

Grab a club, take a swing, and pray for a birdie! It’s time to become a big hitter and start playing Let’s Golf! Play the first iPhone/iPod touch family golf game and discover a fun filled experience accessible to anyone. Choose from among the 4 customizable characters and play on 4 locations created in full 3D (Fiji Beach, the American Mountains, the English Countryside, and Scottish Lochs). Enjoy the Local Wi-Fi and Online Multiplayer modes with your friends or anybody in the world. Golf games have never been so accessible and fun!

 

63 holes in 4 distinct locations remodelled in 3D: Fiji Beach, the American Mountains, the English Countryside, and Scottish Lochs.

4 cool and animated characters customizable with your own style. Each player has unique strengths and weaknesses.

Show your friends who the best player is through Local Wi-Fi and Online Multiplayer modes.

Controls adaptable to anyone: Advanced mode plays like a sports simulation game and you can even add spin to the ball. Casual mode for easy fun and fewer bogies (but no, it won’t let you cheat).

 

Let’s Golf features touchscreen control, and while the standard left / right shot adjustments are present for lining up a swing, the game also allows the player to see a movable target grid down-course that represents an estimated touch down location.  Carrying out a swing involves a three-tap drill that finally gets it right.  Once the ball is in the air the player can swipe an onscreen control to give the ball some English. A very nice ball tracking / follow animation gives a satisfying sense of driving the ball down the course.

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Just a quick note about the best surprise in the game.  The multiplayer options are awesome.  There is an option for Hot Seat or Wireless Multiplay.  That means you can either share the iPhone back and forth between two people, or if you and a friend are both connected to the same Wi-Fi network, you can play each other.  I thought that was AWESOME!

Official Description

Guide PAC-MAN with three new control modes. Dodge pesky ghosts by tilting or rotating your iPhone in Accelerometer Mode. Navigate through the mazes by touching the onscreen Directional Pad in D-Pad Mode. Chomp on dots with the swipe of a finger in Swipe Mode.

Munch fruits and other items for big points! Gobble blinking Power Pellets to weaken the ghosts temporarily and eat them up before they change back. Avoid Blinky, the leader of the ghosts, and his fellow ghosts Pinky, Inky and Clyde, or you will lose a life. Get an extra life when you reach 10,000 points!

In the full version of Pac-Man, you enjoy various color schemes and difficulty levels as you advance to the next levels.  It seems that all of the original features of the arcade game are present in this version, but, honestly, I can’t remember 1985 too perfectly.

Critics say the only downfall to this gaming experience is the method for controlling the Pac-Man. I say, it’s an iPhone. If you are so critical that you need the exact gaming experience as 1985, go buy yourself a vintage machine for $3000.

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The D-pad is the default control method when you boot the game, and I think that is where folks get mixed up. Because they can’t feel the buttons, and they take their eyes off the d-pad, they miss important turns and lose the game. Sure it would be sweet to have a joystick, but this is an iPhone, right?

Graphics Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Usability Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Originality Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Functionality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Official Description

Guide PAC-MAN with three new control modes.  Dodge pesky ghosts by tilting or rotating your iPhone in Accelerometer Mode.  Navigate through the mazes by touching the onscreen Directional Pad in D-Pad Mode.  Chomp on dots with the swipe of a finger in Swipe Mode.

Munch fruits and other items for big points!  Gobble blinking Power Pellets to weaken the ghosts temporarily and eat them up before they change back.  Avoid Blinky, the leader of the ghosts, and his fellow ghosts Pinky, Inky and Clyde, or you will lose a life.  Get an extra life when you reach 10,000 points!

This is the Pac-Man Lite version of the full version offering.  That means you only get one level, and you are done.  You can’t fault the makers for that, because we all know the lite versions are there to entice us to buy the full version.

Critics say the only downfall to this gaming experience is the method for controlling the Pac-Man.  I say, it’s an iPhone.  If you are so critical that you need the exact gaming experience as 1985, go buy yourself a vintage machine for $3000.

More Screen Views

The D-pad is the default control method when you boot the game, and I think that is where folks get mixed up.  Because they can’t feel the buttons, and they take their eyes off the d-pad, they miss important turns and lose the game.  Sure it would be sweet to have a joystick, but this is an iPhone, right?

Graphics Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Usability Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Originality Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Functionality Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars