➤ Battle Golf Online: Club and Speed 🎮

Life on the App Store is not easy for a game of golf: excluding a priori the path of the simulation approach, which in this area just does not take root, it is necessary to aim for an arcade interpretation of the noble sport, with the risk, however. to clash with particularly fierce competitors. In this sense, the modus operandi of the developer Colin Lane Games is driven by truly appreciable intentions, given that he refuses to conform to the mass of similar titles to turn the source material like a sock, proposing with this Battle Golf Online something that has little or nothing to do with real golf, but which at the same time works very well as a mobile game ...

Golf for those who want to fight

It must be premised that Battle Golf Online is not a completely original idea, given that the same software house in 2016 had launched the almost homonymous Battle Golf on the App Store, an identical product as regards the basic gameplay mechanics but characterized from an Atari 2600 style graphics and above all without the multiplayer mode that instead makes the lion's share in this new title. The meager but effective main menu allows you to start a game against artificial intelligence, to challenge a randomly caught online user or to give life to a fight locally, with two players sharing the same device. This is made possible by the very simple title control system, which literally requires the use of just one finger: in front of your character there is in fact a dart that automatically swings up and down, pressing a first time blocks it, determining the trajectory of the shot and making the power indicator appear which must be stopped with a second tap on the base of the force that you want to give to the ball. So far, however, we are talking about things that, for better or worse, have already been seen several other times in the mobile field, while it is in the actual gameplay that we find the most original and genuinely fun part of Battle Golf Online. The goal of each game is in fact to make five holes before the opponent, positioned on a platform at the opposite end of the one reserved for the player: in the center of the screen stands an islet with the flag to point to, and as soon as one of the two challengers achieves the point, the structure disappears to make room for a new one with different characteristics.

Speed of execution and precision are therefore two fundamental requirements to aim for victory, but Battle Golf Online is distinguished by a whole series of "improprieties" that can be perpetrated against the contender: here, therefore, instead of concentrating on the hole, a user particularly mean could decide to aim at the opponent's head to momentarily stun him and have an advantage, or even to use his own balls to repel those of the other or to move those that remain lying on the playing field. Adding to the equation all those points that may arise due to the involuntary intervention of the challenger, it becomes clear how Battle Golf Online is a title that makes up for its almost total lack of technique with an out-of-the-ordinary frenzy, which always makes the games very fun and unpredictable, despite the lack of content put on the plate by Colin Lane Games. In addition to just the three modes, in fact, we must also take into account the scarce diversification of the islets to aim for, which end up repeating themselves after a few game sessions. Nothing that cannot be remedied with a future update, as well as the unappetizing progression model would deserve a tweak, which pushes the player to accumulate coins with the sole aim of unlocking hats that have no value other than the purely aesthetic one. . At least the application is honest in the management of the free to play model, inserting a single type of in-app purchase that allows you to disable all advertisements, however not too frequent or annoying.

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Battle Golf Online compensates for the serious shortcoming of its predecessor that did not contemplate multiplayer, refreshing everything with a decidedly more graceful and current graphics: the base game has remained basically the same, but that's fine as it manages to guarantee challenges immediate and always very captivating. Certainly the title Colin Lane Games is not a champion of refinement, and the contents are really reduced to the bone, but as a proverbial pastime in spare time or as a valid reason to start arguing with your friends, Battle Golf Online works well.