Links Championship Edition - ground-breaking series of real-time strategy games

Description

The Biggest Graphics Update to Links Ever. Links Championship Edition has an entirely new rendering engine with a terrain surface that includes cliffs, arches and bunker overhangs.

The ball physics also have been tuned to perfection. Trees, panoramas and golfers are now anti-aliased for seamless transitions between onscreen elements. Images have a new higher resolution (1280x1024), and the courses.

Create Your Own Courses with the Arnold Palmer Course Designer.  Mac golfers can now re-create their home courses with the same tools used by the Links development team. Links Championship Edition features the long-awaited Arnold Palmer Course Designer (APCD). More than a toy for entry-level builders, the APCD provides users with the power and versatility to accurately re-create their home course in a powerful real-time 3D system. Players can tweak every inch of fairway and create tunnels and arches with full control over each point on the course. A robust library of trees, shrubs and other vegetation allows players to sort for the climate and season that fit their home course, or they can import their own custom trees.

The Ball Flight is Very Real

Links Software Design Engineer Paul Johnston says: 'We have maintained the legendary ball physics developed for Links LS and taught it some new tricks to deal with the more complex terrain model. Learning to ricochet the ball off a canyon wall will add to the gameplay experience. The ball physics continues to react realistically with all of the new enhancements to the terrain engine. It's hard to explain how much that adds to the experience of playing Links.

Tee-off On the World's Finest Championship Courses.

Courses included in Links Championship Edition:

• Oakmont Country Club
• The Royal Melbourne Golf Club
• Frankfurter Golf Club
• The Judge Course at Capitol Hill on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
• Thanksgiving Point
• The Canyons Course at Bighorn
• Pelican Hill
• Banff Springs
• Chateau Whistler
• Four Seasons Resort Aviara
• The Prince Course at Princeville Resort
• Westfields Golf Club
• Mesa Roja

Golf with Sergio Garcia, Annika Sorenstam, Mike Weir and more

The Links Championship Edition has fourteen new high quality golfer animations captured at the highest resolution possible. New tour players and a variety of other golfers are built with lifelike, pre-shot motions including waggle, aiming and pre-shot fidgeting. Each new golfer has a unique personality and will comment on players' games as if you were out golfing with your mates.

Play Against Your Friends Online

Links Software Design Engineer Russell Hunter Says: “We created asynchronous game play to speed up online play. People like to play other people in Links, but they don't always want to see what the other person is doing. With asynchronous game play, you play against other people online, but it's always your turn. You can see the other person's score and chat with them, so you can comment on how you are doing, without breaking your rhythm in the game. We also added the LS Tour program into Links so it will be easier to play in a LS Tour tournament.”