The final results are uncannily accurate a little judicious tweaking and players can, apparently, look just as good as the pro-golfers in the game do. You can even import a profile picture to make sure that your nose and chin shapes are just right. Photo Game Face asks the player to place a number of reference points on the picture, and creates a fully 3D, fully animated facial model from them. This is no simple system that stretches the picture over a dummy head, with ghoulish results, though.
This year's major upgrade to the system is the ability to import high detail photographs of yourself (or take them with the Xbox Vision or Eye Toy cameras) and make a face directly out of those pictures. Tiger has always been noted for allowing players to vastly customise the look of their golfer, tweaking all manner of facial statistics to create a unique look. Three, to be precise.įirst up is the smallest of the new features, but arguably the most immediately striking - Photo Game Face.
On that front, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 has a few interesting tricks up its sleeve.
Beyond such small changes, however, the challenge facing the Tiburon team was to come up with headline features that gamers would actually care about - the kind of thing you put on the back of the box, possibly with an exclamation mark next to it.