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2016 · Three Fields Entertainment · Action · Arcade

Dangerous Golf

Have a burning desire to change the way you play golf? Then here’s a smashing way to lower your handicap. Mixing arcade styling with humorous irreverence, Dangerous Golf’s aim isn’t for the likes of a Par or Birdie – but to cause maximum damage over 100 holes and four rather… unusual locations.

Released: 2 June 2016
Platforms: PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One
Genres: Action Arcade Golf Indie Sports
Developers: Three Fields Entertainment
Publishers: Three Fields Entertainment
Modes: Co-op Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Sandbox
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB E PEGI 3
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain)
Time to beat: 8hmain story32hcompletionist

About

Dangerous Golf is a miniature golf game developed by Three Fields Entertainment, a studio formed by former Criterion Games founders and developers Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward. The game, as stated by the studio, is a mix of Burnout, Black, and NBA Jam, in which players attempt to cause the most destruction by playing miniature golf within a confined space, such as a china shop or a kitchen. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in June 2016.

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Gameplay

Dangerous Golf features around one hundred different miniature golf holes situated in spaces with many destructible objects, including a china shop, a kitchen, a bathroom, a gas station, and a palace. Players take turns to try to hit their ball into the hole, but points (in the form of monetary value) are awarded for making trick shots, and for destroying as many of the objects in the room as possible. Further, players have the opportunity to turn their golf ball into a "SmashBreaker", a miniature bomb to cause even more damage, if they destroy enough objects with their shot. Other obstacles include courses that include multiple rooms, the use of teleporters, and special objectives that score more points if the player meets them. Failure to sink the ball into the hole's cup in the fixed number of shots will deduct a large monetary value from the player's score.

The game supports a party mode for up to eight players online, as well as local multiplayer.

Development

The founders of Three Fields are Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward, the founders and developers at Criterion Games who worked on both the Burnout and Need for Speed series. , where the goal was to drive a car into an area and cause as much destruction as possible. When Criterion, after its purchased by Electronic Arts, moved away from the Burnout series and dedicated more staff towards Need for Speed, Sperry and Ward opted to leave the company in late 2013. After waiting out the termination of their contracts, they then formed Three Fields, along with another Criterion developer Paul Ross.

More former Criterion staff would follow: as of May 2016, nine of the eleven developers at Three Fields are former Criterion developers. The name Three Fields is based on the notion that all the founding employees had skills within all three fields of their business, design, art and engineering.

Reception

Dangerous Golf received "mixed or average" reviews, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received weak approval, being recommended by only 21% of critics. It was compared to the Crash mode in the Burnout series.