Game review: Dangerous Golf gives slow-moving sport a jolt of adrenaline

Dangerous Golf

Three Fields Entertainment

3 stars

A good golfing game is without parallel. We’re not talking about the ultra-realistic Tiger Woods style of play. No, we mean the vastly underplayed Wii U variety, or the old-school thrills of Hot Shots Golf – games with all the out-of-bounds, sand-traps and ridiculous shots that define a good time on the green.

Dangerous Golf’s title promises a lot of fun for an often boring sport, and for us at least, Three Fields Entertainment delivers, if not exactly revolutionising the favourite sport of old men the world over. You don’t wield a set of clubs, there’s no swinging meter, and your only real goal is to smash as much as you can to rack up maximum damage.

The locations are undoubtedly unique – a pristinely clean men’s room, kitchens where everything burns, a library where books explode, a museum loaded with paint cans – and while they’re certainly limited compared to the usual promise of 100 unique holes, there’s no doubting that the whole Caddyshack approach of destruction is well and truly suited.