NBC Sports Real Golf is a mobile game

Mobile game

A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet computer or portable media player. This does not include games played on handheld video game systems such as Nintendo DS or PlayStation Portable....

 developed by Lucky Chicken Games

Lucky Chicken Games

Lucky Chicken Games is an American video game developer founded in 1998 by Jamie Ottilie, Matt Saia and Jonnathan Hilliard. It was purchased by mobile game publisher Abandon Mobile in 2005 and became the production and development operation of the mobile game company...

, a division of the game's publisher, Abandon Mobile. With a license from NBC Sports

NBC Sports

NBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...

, this golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 features photorealistic graphics, variable course conditions, and multiple club selections.

Gameplay

The goal is to get the ball into the hole with the least strokes possible. After a game has started, the player will be shown the hole from an overhead map view. Here the player can position the cursor to get the best shot and select the best club. The player is then taken to a close-up view of the golfer. Here the player needs to determine how much power to use and try to make an accurate shot. The more the bar is filled, the more power the golfer will use to swing at the ball. Accuracy is determined once the marker has entered the accuracy region. Aiming in the center will make the ball fly straight. Aim early or late and the ball will fly to the left or right. After the ball lands on the green, the game will switch to the putting screen. The yellow lines on the screen show the slope of the green. This allows the user to aim the ball while taking into account the contours of the green.

Marketing

The game was unveiled at the 17th annual American Century Championship Celebrity Golf Event and promoted during NBC's

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

broadcast of the event.

External links

• NBC Sports Real Golf