Rory McIlroy PGA Tour Reviews

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is ranked in the 19th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Jul 16, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour plays a great game of golf and has noticeably better graphics than the series previous-gen outings. There's not an awful lot wrong with the core game, and there are some nice surprises. The problem is that the lack of modes, courses, customisation options and players makes it feel only half-complete. This is a problem EA can fix with free DLC, but for now this feels like the foundation of a brilliant golf sim rather than the finished article.

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Alan Bell
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Jul 31, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour plays well, but it's also intermittently ugly, and there's isn't nearly enough content here for the asking price.

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Jul 31, 2015

A new face and name certainly brings a sense of freshness to Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, but the novelty isn't enough to make up for the lack of content. While there's a decent game of golf here, it won't be occupying the top of the leaderboard any time soon.

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Jul 17, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is far from a double-bogey catastrophe of a golfing game, and has all the fundamentals to challenge for honours. With a little extra love and lots of additional content, it could potentially go beyond par and soar like an eagle.

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Jul 21, 2015

Rory McIlroy's first PGA Tour might eventually have enough to keep golf fans amused.

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Jul 13, 2015

Rory McIlroy has made a strong start in the world of golf simulation but, in the parlance of sports commentators everywhere, he is not quite the complete package.

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Polygon
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Jul 17, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour falls far short of its predecessors

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Jul 14, 2015

Despite smooth gameplay and fancy visuals, this game is handicapped by a distinct lack of courses and players, leaving it feeling incomplete and rather bland.

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6.4 / 10.0
Jul 14, 2015

I'd like to say Rory McIlroy PGA Tour picks up where Tiger Woods left off but in truth, we've gone back a step or two…or three. It's not so much the mechanics and gameplay core; all this works reasonably well aside from the eccentricities I mentioned here. It's just that the entire package feels flat and featureless.

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Ray Carsillo
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Jul 20, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour plays better in many ways than when Tiger Woods graced the cover, but the removal of so many modes and continuous shortcomings with the short game make this a disappointing debut on new-gen hardware.

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Gamers Heroes
Johnny Hurricane
Top Critic
7 / 10
Jul 28, 2015

Despite it obvious lack of content, I still played Pro mode for a good amount of time and had fun with that. Ultimately I think you need to be a fan of golfing to enjoy this game.

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7 / 10
Mar 12, 2016

With regard to the actual gameplay, it's clear to see that EA have put some work into ensuring [Rory McIlroy PGA Tour] controls as well as it could

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Drew Leachman
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Jul 17, 2015

Rory Mcilroy PGA Tour is a well playing game, and when it's all said and done, that's what I was looking for. The customization in the play styles is well done, and the actual golf in the game is fun and as accessible as I wanted it to be. While the career mode and online portions of the game are lacking in the options and features department, I still found myself enjoying what I was playing. Both hardcore and casual golf fans will find a fun playing golf game, but players looking for a lot of modes and options won't find it here.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 14, 2015

The in-game experience is excellent, with beautiful scenery, accurate courses, and the true feel of a broadcast.  The overall product is hurt, however, by a lack of courses, big name golfers, and stripped down modes.  Gamers expect to be wowed after two years of development, not left with an empty feeling.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 13, 2015

EA Sports' first post-Tiger golf simulation lays a firm new foundation, but leaves plenty of work to do in future installments

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7 / 10
Jul 21, 2015

Rory McIlory PGA Tour fundamentally plays a great round of golf, with an excellent range of playstyles to suit fans old and new. Despite the welcoming gameplay and often outstanding graphical representation of the courses though, enthusiasts and series stalwarts may soon feel that while progress has been made in some areas, this may not be the experience they expected from the first PGA Tour of a new console generation.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 15, 2015

Rory has solid gameplay and covers the basic feature bases, but it doesn't distinguish itself

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7.5 / 10.0
Jul 14, 2015

No longer a Tiger Woods game in name, but you do wish they had retained more of the older ideas. But while there's not much content here, it still plays a superb game of golf.

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78 / 100
Jul 14, 2015

I walked away from EA's golf game years ago but Rory has brought me back in and there is reason to believe it only gets better from here.

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Jul 13, 2016

Building Rory McIlroy PGA Tour from scratch was indeed the right thing to do for this franchise. It's a fresh reboot of a wonderful series of games, and it doesn't fail to deliver.

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