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| Hot Shots Golf 3 | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Computer Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy Used: $1.16
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 2182
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 17 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
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MPN: 97130
Model: P2SNY 711719713029
UPC: 711719713029
EAN: 0711719713029
ASIN: B00005UOS7
Release Date: March 5, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: This is in good playing condition. NO instructions booklet. Very fast shipping.
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| Features:
| • | With a combination highly stylized graphics and realistic golf gaming will make you enjoy golf, even if you've never held a club in your life | | • | 15 unique charcters to choose from, including real-life player John Daly | | • | Funny and fantastic characters celebrate, complain, and taunt their fellow golfers on challenging photo-realistic courses | | • | Outstanding environmental design that you can alter -- add trees, change the time of day and more | | • | Several different modes of play -- Stroke, Tournament, Short Course, Vs. Mode and many more |
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Product Description
In Hot Shots Golf 3, you get all the fun and action of a great golf game, combined with the comedy and slapstick of a crazy video game! Earn points as you compete and trade them in for new equipment and new characters
Amazon.com Review
Hot Shots Golf 3 certainly isn't the most revolutionary addition to this popular series, but it does a good job of retaining the classic gameplay while updating the series to take advantage of the PlayStation2's more powerful hardware. The courses are beautiful, the animation is excellent as always, and the way the ball reacts to the wind, course elements, and irons and woods is realistic. When you screw up, there's never any doubt that it's your fault, not some flaw in the physics engine. Best of all, once a course is loaded, there's never any waiting around after a shot for a position update. The game is butter smooth. Perhaps the best thing about the game is its immediate accessibility. Players of any skill level can immediately grasp (if not master) the swing meter, where one button press starts the backswing, another determines power, and a third determines accuracy. It's all about rhythm and timing, and pressing on the directional pad during the backswing lets expert players control topspin to finesse their shots, fight a strong wind, or guide the ball through some nearby trees. As players advance through the tournament and other modes, they gain experience in addition to points for purchasing new equipment and other game enhancements. New clubs, balls, and other items significantly impact the way the game plays. New characters and courses open up as the game progresses, so there's always something new to unlock or master. If any complaint can be leveled at the game, it's that perhaps the designers didn't take the over-the-top theme far enough. Those looking for a strict simulation without the wacky characters and fancy special effects might want to look at Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002. On the other hand, that game's special effects are too sparse to attract people looking for a pure arcade experience, and the character designs are uninspired. Regardless, the game lurking underneath Hot Shots Golf 3's fantasy facade should appeal to any golf fanatic, and the varied course designs combined with plentiful equipment choices guarantee a great deal of replayability. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: - Once loaded, shots, replays, and course repositioning are instantaneous
- Beautiful and varied courses with especially good water effects
- Plenty of equipment, characters, and other items to unlock
Cons: - Graphics are good, but probably don't tap the entire potential of PS2
- Could use more and better special effects to add drama to the proceedings
Amazon.com Product Description
Forget tradition, collared shirts, and stuffy resorts--now you can express yourself on the golf course without the snobby attitude. Hot Shots Golf 3 offers nonstop, fast-paced golf action, with a smart-alecky, trash-talking cast of characters. The enhanced graphics deliver vibrant golf environments complete with simulated weather conditions that affect the flight of the ball and the speed of the greens. The new Swing Meter will test your skills with a variety of interfaces depending on the lie of the ball, whether it's in the fairway, rough, tree line, dirt, or sand trap. From the morning mist through dusk, the Time of Day feature provides a realistic approximation of a full day at the golf course. There are no delays between holes, and no delay between the time you pick up the game and the moment you can start playing. However, there is still plenty of depth for golfers of any experience level. Earn Hot Shot Points for superb performances, then cash in your points for equipment and insane gadgets.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 51 more reviews...
 Fun but frustrating July 29, 2008
Like all golf games both video and real, when you hit the ball wrong, nothing seems to go right. This game is as fun as the other reviewers say but just when you think you have it figured out...
 Excellent game all around! April 2, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been playing golf games since the original Atari and have found there are usually two types; the serious ones like Tiger Woods and the whacky amusing ones like Hot Shots 3.
Personally, I like Hot Shots better. The graphics are wonderful. The characters are solid and entertaining and the caddies are passable enough. However, it's the gameplay that keeps you coming back for more. From playing all the way thru the tourney mode, to challenging a friend in the skins competition or just playing the short course. This game has a little of everything.
If you want to hurry the game along, a simple press of the button right after the swing and you go straight to the end of the shot. You can play a short round in about 6 minutes and 18 holes in about 12 minutes this way.
And the game keeps all of your stats and grades you. So, the more you play, the more your stats tell how you are playing each course.
And believe me, there is nothing more satisfying then droppping in a hole in one (or two!) on the short course. It's not extrememly difficult to do, but it ain't easy either!
All in all, Hot Shots 3 gives you plenty of control over your shots, plenty of game options, the ability to speed up the game and the graphics and characters are a joy. Plus, once you get used to putting, it becomes pretty intuitive.
Pure and simple, I love this game!
 5 Star Game September 14, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hot Shots Golf 3 is a great game. It throws Tiger Woods out the window and tosses him out of the world ranking again too. When I first fot this game as a greatest hit, I couldn't figure out the controls, but I found a guide online and found out the controls are easy as can be. Tournament mode was fun, but I like unlocking new characters the most. Mitch, the Sasquatch is the best one. I like that you can tell which one of your friends is the best. I'm semi- pro. Since there aren't any good golf titles and you like golf like me, I highly reccomend it.
Come on inetria, do your thing! May 14, 2004
I sold my PS2 last year for an XBox but I kept this game, slim chance that I got another PS2. I really missed Hotshots Golf 3. I would drink beer after work and play a round of 18. I missed it. I missed the bet that me and a buddy had for the first hole in one either of us would score. The bet was to do shots of whiskey in celebration. Neither of us ever had that whiskey until two weeks ago. With March Madness winnings I bought me a new PS2.HSG3 is a golf game that doesn't take itself serious. The taunts are really funny and will be stuck in your head for days. The courses feel very lifelike, full of colors and unlockable animals, great weather effects. Since I sold my memory card last year, I am playing through the tourney mode, unlocking all the clubs and other goodies once again. If you are looking for a serious golf game with collared shirt stiffs, this is not your game. The Power Meter system in this games works just fine for me, but I hear the controls in Tiger are really good as well. I'm not a golfer and don't have any serious plans of ever becoming one. I've been on a golf course less times than I have fingers on my left hand. Don't even know why I actually ever bought this game, in all truth. Good reviews I guess, something different from all the action titles and RPGS out there. Not too serious a game if you don't want it to be, but the depth is there if you're looking for it; about 12 unlockable players, tourneys, unlockable clubs and courses. Great fun. ;o)
hours of fun March 14, 2004
This is a great game because it last for a long time. I go this a year ago and I still play it alot. If you are going for something not as serious as tiger woods but still the same true golf physics.
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