Tee Off

Developed by Bottom Up and published by Acclaim in 1999, Tee Off was a cartoon golf title much in the same vein as the more popular Everybody's Golf. There was a host of colourful characters to choose from, and the player could take to the greens of 5 courses: Scotland, Africa, America, Austrailia and Japan.
Controls were a double click affair: click once to set the power then click again as the power meter falls, making sure to hit the sweetspot at the bottom to pull off a successful shot. Since then, the analogue stick has been used to recreate the golf swing, but back in the day, the double click method was the way.
Once again, this is another title that I missed on the Dreamcast's first outing, but im glad to have discovered it on this second run. It looks pretty enough, although some courses can be quite bland so be warned. For example the Austrailian one is simply slabs of green slapped in the middle of a sea of brown (the Outback isn't this miserable surely?) And one thing I noticed was the lack of animals wandering around, like there is in Everybody's Golf.
But for all the little gripes, Tee Off does play a good game of golf, and it is not as unforgiving as other titles. This golf fanatic managed a not-too-shabby +13 on the 72 par African course (and were it not for a round wrecking triple bogey on the 15th my score would have been even more respectable).
While its EG brother on other consoles may have had the upper hand looks wise, Tee Off is by no means rubbish. In fact I can predict many hours of golf spent with this fun little title.