Powerstar Golf

Powerstar Golf blends time-tested mechanics with a unique style, rewarding your hard work with a pleasant sense of accomplishment. As long as you don't let the microtransactions ruin it for you, you're all but guaranteed to have a good time.

Definitely fun for the whole family.

This game covers well-trodden territory, but the way that it tracks your performance and the performance of your friends makes it a fine fit for the Xbox One's launch lineup, and a pleasant way to spend some time.

A fun golf game with no claims at all but that manages to entertain the entire family. Probably the best digital game from the Xbox One launch lineup.

Anyone looking for a more substantial or skill-based party game will be better served elsewhere. [Issue#143, p.107]

Powerstar Golf has its enjoyable strokes, whether playing solo, with local buddies, or while challenging an online rival's best score in an asynchronous mode, but truly head-scratching skill and progression choices diminish what's already an uninspiring clone.

Not new-gen material. [Jan 2014, p.63]

Love this game. It reminds me and my mate of 'Outlaw Golf' we used to play all the time on the original Xbox, this is a close to a sequel as we're ever likely to get! Graphics are great for an arcade title, full HD and running at what must be 60fps, silky smooth. Not quite as humerous as outlaw golf but the mechanics of the game and the extra powerups/upgrades you can use are fun and really add to the game.

Got this free... is every xbla type game eventually free? It plays **** is it not kinect?? I had a go with the misses and that's fun enough but some things could actually be better with kinect.. as theres no kinect games on xbo really. .. surely golf is the sweet spot? Anyway rant over.. it's better than i expected.

This one was slightly difficult to review. Im generally more into sports sims like Tiger Woods or FIFA so I had to give this one a little longer to grow on me. It did eventually grow on me. It has some variables that are helping it out. Obviously its the only golf game available currently on Xbox One. Please EA Sports and HB **** your games out. Im dying for a golf sim. So comparing this to a golf sim would be like comparing an early James Bond film to a Tom Clancy novel. Again this helps the game. They have no restrictions or obligation to make this game realistic. Its cartoon golf BUT its good cartoon golf. The physics engine is pretty good and I play a lot of golf. The courses offered go from straightfoward to funny and even just stupid at times. It challenges you a little. Strategizing how to play holes is important but absurd at times. "If I can draw my 5 wood around this mountain and still get enough carry I should be able to find the green." Augusta National on TW14 this certainly is not but then that was never the intention. At the end of the day its still golf. All the gimmicks come out in the end as pretty fun and as long you dont take it too seriously I think any golf fan could have fun with it. The graphics are goregeous. I cant wait to see what EA does to Augusta or Pebble Beach w the XBox **** modes and amount of characters are pretty limiting. The replay value is average at best. Kinda like grabbing a cup of coffee at Seven Eleven because you cant make it to **** caffeine but its not the first choice.

The game is entertaining, but I feel like something is just not complete here. The controls, while straight forward are not always consistent. The putting is attrocious and its just simply a crap shoot on whether you make it in the hole vs using skills and calculating wind, slope, etc. The RPG element is a fresh idea, but you need to rely way too much on your power ups as you are just simply nothing without them. Graphically, its definitely not "next gen" but its solid over all. Its not too bad by any means, but the complete package just isn't there. The putting system is definitely its weakest link along with the inconsistent power/accuracy bar and needing to rely too much on power ups instead of the player fine tuning their skills..Unfortunately there is no trial version so its a complete gamble of $20 if this is something you want to give a shot.

For this game to be 13th best xbox game of 2013 its easy to understand that not many good games came out in 2013. I guess its alright if you want to pay to unlock extra courses but for me it was a waste of time.