Rory McIlroy PGA Tour Reviews

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is ranked in the 19th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
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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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 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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Jul 14, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is the perfect example of a solid game that's brought down by how it looks and handles. If you can get over the paltry career mode, there is some fun to be had here, though a few patches and refinements would do a lot of good.

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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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5 / 10
Jul 28, 2015

It's not often that you can say a previous iteration in a sports franchise is significantly better than the newest and prettiest, but for EA Sports Rory McIlroy PGA Tour that is very much the case. The graphical upgrades and gameplay tweaks don't make up for the massive lack of depth and sacked features, meaning that this outing is very much below the property's usual par.

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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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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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Don't Buy
Jul 14, 2015

The gameplay foundation of Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is strong, but the actual house that makes up the game itself is practically paper thin.

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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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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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Jul 21, 2015

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

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80 / 100
Jul 14, 2015

Rory McIlroy's PGA Tour will disappoint some, as it does not hit the levels of insanity teased during its E3 2014 trailer. But the improvements found within the gameplay mechanics help produce one of the best golfing experiences in years. The Night Club Challenge mode is a let down, as it showed quite a bit of potential. But that potential still exists, and could be reached in the future. While the extra year break did not produce the most revolutionary golf game around, it did help EA Tiburon create a solid experience that any fan of the sport will enjoy.

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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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5 / 10
Jul 14, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour continues the trend of well-known sports franchises making disappointing, threadbare debuts on new consoles.

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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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Jul 13, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour brings back the franchise after a short hiatus and while it looks and plays great, the game itself feels like only a tease for the full potential that this series has shown in the past.

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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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Jul 19, 2015

[A]s much as Night Golf and reduced loading times are fantastic additions to the standard PGA Tour offering, I would rather have more courses, golfers, and character customization with clean next-gen graphics. Content and execution outweigh novelty modes and convenience.

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4 / 10
Jul 23, 2015

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is an empty, unimpressive debut lacking in both content and finish.

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