ONE Powerstar Golf

In Powerstar Golf’s Career Mode, you’ll climb the ranks and develop your golfers’ gear & abilities, all while taking on some of the toughest opponents in the Powerstar universe.

Each course contains a number of Career Mode events, culminating in a set of rival matches against four new unlockable characters. If you manage to defeat the reigning champion of each course, they’ll join your character roster – but they won’t go down without a fight! You’ll need to carefully craft your golfer’s gear kit, caddie perks, and equipped boosts if you want to have a shot at victory. Each character will make full use of his or her special ability and use a set of custom gear specially-tailored to their play style.

Every Career Mode event contains three medal tiers: bronze, silver, and gold. Completing the basic event requirements will net you a bronze award, but in order to earn silver & gold, you’ll need to go above and beyond the basics. To complete some gold medals, you might have to return to the event at a later level and play with a more advanced strategy; the challenge is steep, but the credit rewards for earning silver or gold will make it worth the effort!

When you’ve completed the main series of Career Mode events, you’ll unlock a set of special high-level trials with its own set of challenges & rewards, too. So get your clubs ready because it’s about to go down… golf style.

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Now that you have your character and course selected, you’ll want to pick your caddie. Meet Astrid and Kirby, two masterminds at golf but with dramatically different personalities.

In a tough spot? Give Astrid or Kirby a call. They both come equipped with unique abilities that can help you in times of need. Astrid’s putt preview for instance, will allow players to see exactly where the ball will roll before they make a shot. Similar to putt preview, Kirby’s shot preview will allow players to see where the ball will land after driving or chiping.

In addition to caddie abilities, there is also a caddie “perk” system. Perks are modifiers you can attach to your caddie to add special bonuses to your play, and can be acquired by purchasing gear packs in the store. The number of perks you can equip on your caddies depends on your golfer’s level. Some of these bonuses are quite nifty– for example, Water Skip increases the chance that your ball will bounce off the surface of a water hazard instead of going in, and Lucky Drop increases the chance that your ball will teeter into the hole if it’s right on the edge (solving that pesky, “It’s almost there… come on!” problem).

Best of all, you can also share caddies with your Xbox One friends and borrow their caddies for your own games. Whenever someone uses your caddie to play a round you’ll gain an XP reward too!

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RowDIEr schrieb:

Wird sowas von gekauft!

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Pöldi schrieb:

Bei der Xbox One geht es genau so weiter, wie schon bei der 360...
...ich werde wieder an den vermeintlich kleinen Arcade Titeln hängen bleiben.

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The new golf franchise is pretty easy to overlook amid the rest of the Xbox One's launch lineup, but it has enough heart and design chops to stand out. The developers have built what amounts to a light, cartoonish fantasy RPG on top of a relatively standard golf simulation, complete with character abilities, collectible gear, and stat-hounding.

Each of the six golfers in the game has their own rule-bending ability: one can slow down time for more accuracy, another can magnetize the hole to draw the ball toward it, and yet another splits the ball into five and keeps only the best shot going forward. There are also unlockable caddies that can give additional perks, like the ability to take a "gimme" when the ball gets close to the hole. On top of that, you can unlock over 400 pieces of gear that modify your golfer's accuracy, power, spin, and so forth. It's the ridiculousness of NFL Blitz and the stat-building of World of Warcraft, all layered on top of a golf game.

Powerstar Golf takes advantage of the Xbox One's cloud capabilities for a pretty neat asynchronous multiplayer mode. You can download entire rounds played by friends or strangers from the cloud, then play against them as if they were sitting there with you on the couch, using their shots and strategies to pace yourself through the course. It might not seem like much, but this style of multiplayer seems much more engaging than just chasing a score on a leaderboard.

The controls will be pretty familiar to anyone who's played a golf game, and despite the cartoonish characters and abilities, the physics and basic golf strategy seemed pretty well tuned. This is one to keep an eye on.

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Phear schrieb:

Was kostet der Spaß? Ist ja sicher kein Vollpreistitel, oder?

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