It’s a safe bet EA’s offering will be the most luxurious, if they can avoid the bogey of microtransactions: Rory’s game was stripped of the content and once-trademark EA polish that typified the series’ glory days, with full-fat features held behind money-grabbing DLC. This practice has also soured their FIFA series of late.Here’s hoping they don’t add a golfing version of their Ultimate Team mechanics to PGA – though it’d be funny watching YouTubers pretend to lose their mind over a gold Ian Poulter. To be fair, the 2K Sports games aren’t immune from this practice, either.Still, this week’s news is reason to celebrate – golf has been a videogame mainstay since the late 70s, and we’ll soon be able to hit the digital links again in a world with some healthy competition.
