Everybody’s Golf VR sounds good in theory

Imagine Wii Golf was a bit fancier, had perky female caddies and made you feel a bit sick when you played. Congratulations, you’ve now imagined Everybody’s Golf VR.

Imagine, if you will, that Wii Golf was a bit fancier, had perky female caddies and receptionists, and made you feel a bit sick when you played.

Congratulations, you’ve now imagined Everybody’s Golf VR.

Everybody’s Golf has been a long time series for PlayStation, but this is its first time going VR, and it actually seems like a perfect fit.

In Everybody’s Golf VR how and when you swing matters, with a lot of enjoyable skill involved in getting the perfect shot.

Rich CEOs have been trying for years to perfect the art of golf they can play without leaving their home, or office. This is the poor worker bee’s version of that.

Like Wii Golf, Everybody’s Golf VR is easy to get the hang of quite quickly. The controls are excellent, when they work, particularly if you’re using a PlayStation Move, but also using the light bar on the DualShock 4.

Unlike Wii Golf, though, how and when you swing matters, and there is a lot of enjoyable skill involved in getting the perfect shot.

The better your shots, the more impressed your oddly giggly, somewhat sexualised (but in an innocent way) caddy is.

It’s also nice that the game caters to different skills by having vacuum holes (similar to putting the up the gutter barriers when bowling), or forcing you to be more accurate and disciplined in your shots.

With only three courses Everybody’s Golf VR can get a bit repetitive.

Plus, it’s cool that the courses range from relatively realistic, including bugs and sounds, to having dinosaurs roam about.

You can’t quite reproduce the golfing emo song from High School Musical 2, but if you think it loudly enough, you can almost picture it happening in your periphery.

The courses can feel that real with a headset.

While the soundscape is great, though, the graphics are cartoonish and a little more basic than what I’d expect on PS4VR.

There also aren’t any other people, save the perky, bow-happy receptionist and caddy.

It has a rapture kind of vibe to it, which is eerie if you allow yourself to think about it for too long.

The soundscape in Everybody’s Golf VR is great, involving bugs and different sounds.

There’s also only three courses, and they get pretty samey after a while.

Then again, most people can only play in this VR for so long before they get motion sick, so perhaps the lack of variety won’t be too taxing.

Bottom line: VR golf sounds good in theory. But I still prefer the regular version which has more to do and less to throw up on.

Everybody’s Golf VR

Overall: 3.5/5

Available now on: PS4

Price: $39.95

Reviewed on: PS4 Pro

Out now.