Dangerous Golf

Developed by Three Fields Entertainment, DANGEROUS GOLF is an anything-but-the-traditional sports simulation where the aim is to rack up points as destructive and creative as you can within a time limit. It's a game that focuses less on finding ways to get the ball in the hole than it does on trying to cause as much damage as possible, even if that means bending the rules as far as you can stretch them, creating havoc along the way.

Story and Setting

No Traditional Narrative for Dangerous Golf Instead, is just about the ridiculous good time I have causing mayhem in an assortment of comparatively unusual places. You assume the role of a shape-shifting golfer with the primary objective of smashing, crashing and thoroughly obliterating anything within reach. The game takes place in a variety of levels, from opulent kitchens and grand ballrooms to quint medieval castles and grimy service stations, each packed with breakable stuff and environment controls.

Gameplay and Mechanics

Gameplay in Dangerous Golf is centered on creating massive destruction, earning high scores and wreaking havoc:

Arcade-style Destruction: Players need to cause as much destruction with their golf ball in each level. The points are based on how much destruction is made.

Trick Shots & Combos - Score big with trick shots and combos, including Dynamite VolleyballBomb! This can even bounce the ball off walls, objects and whatever you find useful in the environment.

SmashBreaker - earn a SmashBreaker by dealing damage into SmashPoints. Another such power-up is the ball pawer that makes your ball to detonate and leave a path of destruction along with picking more points.

Diverse Environments: Every level has its own environment with original destructible items and challenges. Become familiar with the depth of each option to level their destruction and discover extra rewards.

Single-player and Local Multiplayer: The game is both single player, as well as local multiplayer. You can play with friends in co-op as you try to outscore each other by rampaging across the map creating Jay & Silent Bob levels of destruction.

Visuals and Presentation

Dangerous Golf is visually stunning with highly-detailed locations and physics-based gameplay. Chaos and destruction permeate the visuals of the game, as you can see things shattering, exploding and flying in every direction on screen. The environments are designed with an insane attention to detail, that features various textures and materials that react uniquely when the golf ball hits them. Sound design draws the eye with good crash effects, and happening background techno music lets you know that yes, we are in AMERICA.

Game Modes

Dangerous Golf has a variety of modes to keep players coming back for more.

Tour World: The primary singleplayer mode, where players journey to numerous locations and complete taking pics challenges. Every stage brings its own objectives and endless mayhem.

Party Golf, very similar to the mode for local multiplayer that allows up to four players can play stand-off. Ten players take turns wreaking as much havoc as they can, and the master of mayhem with the highest score at the end of each round is crowned champion.

Co-op World Tour - Join forces with a friend in local co-op mode and work together to finish levels and earn high scores. Discussion and cooperation is important for you to wreak havoc on the enemy team.

Similar Games

If you like how Dangerous Golf sounds, you might want to check out some of these other romp-around-and-destroy-something type games:

Burnout Paradise Remastered - Another high-speed racing and crashing title from Three Fields Entertainment.

Rocket League: A vehicular soccer game where the players drive rocket — powered cars to smash a giant ball into the opponent's goal.

Wreckfest: A demolition derby game in which cars compete at high speeds across a variety of surfaces, the game also heavily emphasizes realistic physics, tape offering accurate levels of vehicle destruction.

Crazy Taxi - An arcade classic where you drive a taxi at breakneck speeds, use the city as your playground and pick up passengers in a race against the clock.

Interesting Feature

What stands out about Dangerous Golf is its SmashBreaker mechanic. It turns the golf ball into a fiery fireball that can be manoeuvred in mid-air to steer it into groups of breakable objects for extra damage. The SmashBreaker also brings a bit of strategy and action to the game in that you have to choose when to activate it for the best score.

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