Tiger Woods carried his own clubs onto a soundstage at Orlando's
Universal Studios last week. He gawked at decks of computers,
synthesizers, digitizers and 120,000 watts of lighting, almost
enough to eclipse his grin at the thought of creating his own
video game. "This is wild," he said.
After signing what his agent Hughes Norton calls "the largest
game deal ever," a four-year pact with Electronic Arts, Woods
brought plenty of ideas to producer Rich Hilleman. "I've played
all the golf games, and they seem slow, boring,
two-dimensional," he said. "My game is going to be fast."
His game, due to hit stores in June, is Tiger Woods PGA Tour
'99. Hilleman calls it "Tiger to the nth degree."
"The hardest part was the fist-pumping," Woods says. "I'm so far
in the zone when I do that, I don't know what's happening. I
actually have no memory of ever pumping my fist."
Greg Nared of Nike came to the rescue, serving as fist-pumping
coach. "No, Tiger, you don't just stand there pumping it," he
called out. "You run across the green making big spike marks!"
Woods was soon doing a convincing Tiger Woods impression. He ran
around the set, fist pumping wildly, punching holes all over
cyberspace.
Issue date: February 23, 1998
|
|
