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As fans of golf will tell you, The Open has something of a special feel to it. The only major to be held outside of the United States, such is the draw of this championship that winning it can lead you to sporting stardom for decades to come.

It's a special jewel in the world of golf's already glittering crown, and any game that attempts to recreate The Open should surely attempt to be just as distinctive. Right?

Bit of a shame, then, that Gameloft's trip to the UK to coincide with 2009's tournament in Turnberry is so unspectacular and generic, essentially taking the Pro Golf 2010 World Tour package it released earlier in the year and slapping The Open's logo across it. In almost every facet, this feels like the same game. Whether it's worth the purchase is a question of whether the prospect of taking to the green at this year's course is enough to pull you in.

Not that you can jump straight into The Open, of course. Like Pro Golf 2010 World Tour before it, whether you choose the game's Instant Play option or have a crack at its Career mode, you'll be toured around other courses on the globe rather than being handed the keys to the castle.

Instant Play ties up various holes from these courses (one in Italy, one in Dubai, and the Ailsa course at Turnberry) into set packages, while The Open's campaign mode splits them back up, instead asking you to post a set score on three or more holes before moving on.

The annoying thing is Turnberry is the last course to be unlocked, meaning you have to slug through the first two batch of challenges in Italy and Dubai to unlock that trip to Ayrshire. Indeed, the only way to play through all of the 18 holes at The Open this year from the word go is to tackle them separately in Free Play mode. Hardly ideal for a title seemingly designed to replicate the feeling of taking to the green at this most special of championships.

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While that might be nothing more than an annoyance, what really plagues Golf:聽The Open 2009 is what dragged its forbear down 鈥?it doesn't know whether it's a fun fuelled arcade package, or an in-depth simulation.

On the one hand, the controls are incredibly simple. Changing the direction of your shot is a question of twisting the angle with the '2' and '4' keys, the predicted drive shown on a map in the top right. Power and accuracy are then both handled by two gauges, a flag icon on the former showing the average power you need to put behind the shot to make the green, a small green strip in the middle of the latter the target for a sharp shot.

On the green, things get even simpler. Your only job here is to control the power, and even if you manage to miss, if the ball lands close enough, the game will sink it for you in an 'Auto Putt' move the following shot.

Yet while this uncomplicated approach, combined with the kind of arcade music you might expect to find playing out of an OutRun cabinet, might suggest a light and breezy style of play, Golf:聽The Open 2009's visuals are plain and almost realistic. Just as with Pro Golf World Tour, Gameloft's latest golf bundle doesn't really know what it is and, essentially, doesn't realise its potential in either area as a result.

Anyone who wants to drop themselves into a real golf championship will find EA's Tiger Woods series a much sleeker fit, while Everybody's Golf聽remains the arcade-style favourite.

The fact that Golf: The Open 2009's mis-steps have all been made before 鈥?and very recently at that 鈥?makes them a little less acceptable. Still, this is far from disastrous, and for anyone wanting to live out those Turnberry holes like their idols, this is your one and only option.

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