King of Clubs Review. King of Clubs aims to bring crazy golf to your living room, but is more likely to just make you crazy. Cobra Golf is a leading golf club and golf equipment manufacturer, committed to providing superior-quality, high performance products for avid golfers of all abilities. Our golf clubs offer golfers a competitive performance advantage and functionality through innovative design, such as E9 Face Technology, Adjustable Flight Technology and Baffler Rail Technology.

Is one of the seemingly endless games that play in the same space that many Wii developers have found irresistible: Wiini-golf. The mix of fun, family-friendly, semi-sport content combined with the easy, obvious functionality of the Wiimote as a golf club has resulted in a glut of Wii mini-golf games.

Making them stand out is the difficulty, of course, which led Oxygen Games (of 'My Secret Diary' and 'My Dress-Up' fame) to develop its own niche with; white trash mini-golf. The game's protagonist is mini-golf course owner Bubba, whose character is a late-model Elvis impersonator.Despite the economic struggles facing modern Elvis impersonators, Bubba's managed to procure himself quite a deal, with five different environments yielding 96 holes for players to play through while using a variety of unlockable clubs, balls, and settings. Although we weren't able to see any of the special tricks in the version of the game we played, we were told about items like the Glue Ball (which sticks flat on the ground the second a hit ball touches the turf) to rubber balls, speed balls, and a chipping club that allows you to shoot over hazards. In fact, now that we've written that, we're not entirely sure we weren't looking at a pog video game.The+Dude+abides? Each hole features several different ways to go from tee to hole, and depending upon what you're looking to gain, you'll have to incorporate different methodologies. If you're looking to just get the ball to the hole in as few strokes as possible, you'll employ the most obvious route; if you're looking to gain cash to unlock more items, though, you'll need to collect the moneybags available at each hole. Often, collecting these moneybags results in you going into one of the game's many hazards (like lava), losing a stroke in the process, but if you're looking to collect some quick cash, you can sacrifice your golfing purity for a quick buck.

There's also a two-player mode that could potentially be fun, although it wasn't playable at E3. In this mode, you use the Wiimote to distract your opponent while he's swinging (Gilbert Arenas/DeShawn Stevenson style, presumably), with proper Wiimote usage resulting in gag balls and 'audio distractions'. If you have a voice, that's not something you'll need the Wiimote for. All that is only worthwhile if the game's swinging mechanic is actually fun and functional, and that's where our biggest issue lies, so far, with King of Clubs.

The system involved isn't particularly intuitive - you hold down 'A' to select power, let it go at the desired distance, and then pull the Wiimote back to swing in the familiar style. Our player wasn't very visually responsive to our Wiimote backswing, while the actual act of hitting the ball seemed to be entirely random. Furthermore, since we'd already determined the power of the swing with the A button, the actual physical exertion we put in our backswing had absolutely nothing to do with the shot itself. All in all, the actual experience of hitting the ball is detached and dissimilar to the act of hitting a ball in mini-golf, which separates King of Clubs from other mini-golf games, but also seems wholly counter-intuitive.My+ball+is+trailing+away. It's hard to see from the first glance where King of Clubs fits in the spectrum of Wii games.

Line play your avatar world. Its subject matter doesn't appear to be tangibly different from other comparable games despite publisher Crave's attempts to delineate it as such, and while it offers more holes than many of its competitors, the actual act of golfing at those holes was tedious in our first forays. We'll need to sit down and get a more extensive look at the different environments and holes in the game before we can ascertain whether King of Clubs is a game worth looking forward to.

King of Clubs is a video game for the Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Windows developed by Oxygen Studios and published by Oxygen Interactive.

Its story involves a rich Elvis-like man named 'Big Bubba' who opens a themed crazy golf course.

The game features 96 holes set in 5 different environment themes. Each environment theme has its own resident ‘Course Pro’ resplendent in suitably themed fancy dress costume.

In addition players will also be able to unlock and use various clubs and balls.

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