PGA TOUR 2K25

Not bad

If you are just looking for an occasional round of Golf (my career/quick game), this game is okay if you can get it for 10 bucks. If you want to play competetive or want to have maximum progression, be aware of several let-downs. First of all: This game is a poor copy paste from 2k23. Graphics are maybe slightly better, but not worth a mention. Audio (commentators) are exactly the same as before. Same course descriptions and same jokes. For a 70€ game, this is really unsatisfactory. Performance: Loading times are horrible, menus feel sluggish and unresponsive. The first and last hole on every course will stutter, especially when approaching the green/putting - no matter what (high end) hardware you throw at the game. Same with the flight over the course in the beginning and the end. Every interaction in My Career feels like the overambitious presentation the trainee at work prepared to "impress": He added every available transition effect that power point has to offer: After the last hole: stuttery video, winning screen, press A --> Scoreboard, press A --> Sponsor Progression Screen (boost overview), press A --> Sponsor Progression Screen (progress), press A --> Rival Update, press A --> loading, loading --> MyPlayer and Clubhouse Pass Progression, press A --> Equipment Progression. press A --> Event Results, press A --> Quest Rewards, press A --> loading, loading --> Message on Phone: Interview Option. Here you have the option to skip the interview, but you will loose a couple of "followers" or a bonus stat for the next event from time to time. This is what you have to click after EVERY event. It takes ages, is unnecessary, doesn't add any value and makes it annoying. Everything needs more clicks than necessary and has transition effects and/or loading times in between. It feels overloaded and clunky without adding value (like the follower system and the interviews). After a while, you will get the same messages from Rivals, the same questions in interviews and it is pure repetition - but you still need to click everything away. Going to the menu is horrible. It also has loading time and feels unresponsive. Receiving quest rewards adds to the "press A" party and takes by far too many clicks and too much time with too many transition effects - just to receive stuff like 100 MyPlayer XPs (depending on quest reward). Multiplayer (online): If you want to compete, prepare for people with the straightest hits ever and maxed out MyPlayers and Clubs. There is no system to balance the matches by skill, equipment level or anything. Can be frustrating and has a pay to win feeling, as you need plenty of VC to max everything - especially when you try to push multiple characters. Connection is horrible - even though you never have problems with that in any other game. Multiplayer (local): THE WORST! Since 2k21, 2k can't manage to make this an enjoyable thing. First of all, you can only play against "Guests". Every guest can select their own Golfer, but all of them have the same name. So in a 4 Player match, you will have: YourName, YourName (Guest 1), YourName (Guest 2), YourName (Guest 3). There is no balancing whatsoever - so you need to try to keep all the characters on a similar level if you want it balanced. This wouldn't be a bad thing, if all played characters would receive XP at the end of a local match. Noooo, only the main Player gets XP and you have to cycle the main character or level them aside of playing local multiplayer. Map Selection (search and filter) is clunky and slow. VC/Pay to win: You will feel this when trying to bring 4 - 5 characters to max level. For each individual character, you need to level up the clubs. After more than 400 hours of playing, I still only have 1 character with maxed out clubs and OVR 99. You might say "but I don't want to play competetive, so it's not that bad" - but you miss out on a lot of stuff, like different strokes. To level some of them, you need to reach OVR 85. It is reachable by playing, but you will miss the VC to upgrade your clubs then. It just doesn't feel right for a full price game - especially because it gets more with every new season. Maps: The only really positive thing I can mention are the community created maps. There are AWESOME! people out there creating beautiful maps which offer a nice distraction from the already well known official courses. Thank you so much for that! (Community, not 2k) So - why do I put so much time in a game I don't really seem to like? Lack of alternatives! The last EA game was even worse and all other Golf games are too comic style or not enough simulation. I am not too sure though, if I will buy a PGA 2k27 if there is one, as 2k is shutting down servers for the older ones and it feels like a pure cash grab with copy pasting the old game, making some unneeded additions but asking fully price + VC sales + Season passes