- Uses the Wii balance board
- 4 Workout types, strength training, weight loss, intervals and h climb
- motion based fitness activities such as ladder climb, rowing and monkey bars
- track personal data and progress
- Unlock lifestyle tips from Jillian
Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009 WiiJillian Michael’s Fitness Ultimatum 2009 is the first game of its type to combine a celebrity fitness trainer with the Wii and innovative Wii Balance Board accessory to offer you a fun and entertaining way to get fit. Under Jillian’s expert guidance, you can pursue a focused workout that helps you reach your fitness goals through rigorous, branching exercise routines, and multiple difficulty levels that will get you in the best shape of your life! A
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- Compete in the prestigious Ryder Cup Tournament
- Tweak matchups on the fly as you captain your team to victory
- Participate in Better Ball, Alternate Shot and Match Play competitions
- Enhanced Wii MotionPlus support includes Advanced Plus and Tour Pro swing options
- Advanced Plus tracks swing rotation and swing plane – reading the virtual path of your club through your swing
DESCRIPTION Lead your team to glory in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 11! Fight for honor, fight for country in the all-new Ryder Cup Challenge on The Celtic Manor Resort in Wales in 2010, which is the course of this year’s Ryder Cup. Strategy comes into play as you create your own team and take on others in Online Team Play – up to 12 versus 12.You take a knee and survey the 18th green. Your ball is 20 feet from the pin, and the green breaks to the left. As you approach your ball you can feel the wei
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Review by Jessica for Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009
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I just got it today and played for only 1hr so far, so may be it’s more to this game, but personally, I think it’s awful. If I were Jillian Michaels, I wouldn’t want my name on this game.
Graphic is super bad with ugly avators you can’t customize the detail. Feels like going back to Super Nintendo or Play Station era. However it’s Wii, it’s fitness game- I can let go of graphics if game content is good…which isn’t.
Ok, where should I start??? (seriously it’s that bad)
Noticable flaw for me was slow controller response time. I could be swinging my controller and nunchuck now and my character will be responding 2 seconds later. Also for some exercise, it’s really hard to figure out how to get the character moving because of poor instruction + just badly designed control.
Some mini games sort of resemble Wii Fit but it’s more like Wii Fit wannabe. For example, this game’s version of “Running” is if you use balance board, you are just “shifting” weight on the board and swing arms with controllers because you are not supposed to actually run on the board. And for Wii Fit owners, remember how pretty the background scenary was and kept changing as you ran? In this game, you are just running through 1 long boring path between trees…
Another “boring” factor is it doesn’t have much of game quality unless you are in multiplayer mode. Sure it’ll show you the score after the exercise at the end of game but while you are playing solo, it’s really not motivating. You just hear Jillian’s occasional “Give it all you got!” over and over.
Some good points are background musics- they are good up-beat songs with more variety than Wii Fit, and also some squat exercise did make me sweat.
Overall, I’m sure it’ll keep burning your calories if you play this game everyday but it’s so BORING and FRUSTRATING, I’m not sure if anybody could keep playing this long term.
So unless you are like me who just wanted to try out this new fitness game casually, don’t bother, stick with Wii Fit.
I’ll be selling mine soon.
Review by Angela M. Tumlinson for Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009
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I was so pumped about a new Wii fit game because I love the Wii fit. I opened the game and started to play and was VERY Disappointed. First off when trying to customize the clothing on my fitness person the colors don’t change to the color is shows it is supposed to be. If I chose pink it looks yellow. The graphics are really bad, and like the previous email said back in the old video game days. I started off with the training mode which is running and I could not get my remotes to hardly respond it is like the game is playing by itself. My balance and motion just did not seem to respond till a few second later. I really wanted to like this game because I love fitness. When your are running you are on the balance board and when you go faster your person on the screen continues to barely move. If you have to quit for some reason in the middle, mine was because I was bored, but if you try to quit you have to wait until your 2-5 MInute + run is over before you can return to choose another training mode.
There is an area where you jump on logs and it just looks like your standing in one place and you can’t jump from log to log you just basically stand there until the 2 minutes are up.
Throwing granades were bad because the game tells you lean left and right to hit the target and when you lean left to right it does nothing.
It does give some good advice as you earn tips. The entire game responses are all positive and when you are trying to get a good workout you need motivation but sometimes not all positive. Even if you don’t do a good job it says oh good job….
My kids even tried the game and were very frustrated age 14 and 4 because the game would not respond at all to my four year old. My 4-yr old loves Wii fit but this game you have to be heavy enough to bend down and touch the board to throw grenades on that particular exercise. I had to stand there with him and add weight to the board each time he bent over so he could do the toe touch. He lost interest very quickly and so did I.
There is a new device out that makes your wii board more sensitive but I am not sure even with that I could recommend this game. I just can’t believe how bad the graphics were. I guess I can live with the graphics and will try to play a few more times after getting the new device that makes the board more sensitive but I was just really disappointed about this game. Sorry, Jullian but I see this on the discount rack really quick.
Review by D. A. Lewis for Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009
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Ever since I bought Wii fit I was anxiously awaiting a complementary program. Wii Fit is great but we all know its huge flaws. So when I found out Jillian Michaels was coming out with a balance board game I thought great, a fitness buff should bring a fresh perspective.
Well, in a nut shell what was created was not a fitness program that you can build a lifestyle around but more like a game that you can play for a few weeks and then move on to something else. The Big three as I call them (Yourself Fitness, Let’s Yoga, and Wii Fit) can be incorporated into a fitness lifestyle on pretty much a daily basis. No so with Fitness Ultimatum
So just where does this game fail as far as an exercise program? For one thing, in this game you are mostly not doing the on screen exercise but doing some kind of physical gyration to get your on screen avatar to do the screen action. For example running on screen is done by alternating heel lifts and swinging your arms. In boxing in order to get permission to throw a punch on the bag your hips have to be swaying to the music.
Oh, and the music. Have these game designers ever been in a gym? I feel like I’m listening to some-one’s Ipod shuffle mix. Exercise music is supposed to drive you to working out, not someones idea of good tunes. In one paint ball hand grenade activity I was throwing paint ball grenades to country western music. What???????
The game does work without the balance board. I found that out today becasue the balance board game sync menu is not user friendly, the controls are too sensitive and you don’t get enough time. Thus I failed the balance board sync test and went without the balance board today
And finally the game has no exit. Once you get back to the opening flash screen the program dead ends. Yesterday the game crashed my Wii so I had to unplug to take out the disk. Today after I got to the flash screen, I ejected the disk and inserted Wii Fit. After a couple seconds of the disk turning, I got a screen message that said please insert Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009.
Jillian would have done much better to turn one of her own DVDs into a Wii Fit game.
Review by Mark Witt for Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009
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So I tried Jillian Michael’s Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for Wii. I really wanted it to be good, but here’s what I experienced:
-It’s not user friendly like Wii Fit. It was hard to figure out how to jog using the balance board, you have to shift your back heels in sync with your arms. This is definately a step down than even running in place on Wii Fit. Many of the other activities, monkey bars, log jumping, also take a while to get used to, as the speed of the demo avatar is going VERY fast.
- Half the game is getting Fitness Tips from Jillian Michaels. This might be valuable info for hardcore Jillian fans, but all the tips seemed common sense and lacked incentive for progressing through the game.
- Four modes: Weight Loss, Strength training, Hill climbing, and Intervals. So, to give you an idea of how they spread the events: Hill climbing is dodging punching bags. Strength Training is monkey bars (waving your arms above you). Kind of strange how they classify events!
-Multiplayer: This was a little more fun, however, the person who had never played before couldn’t grasp the controls, so the more experienced person won, regardless if they were less fit.
-Overall: Anticipating this game for months, my expectations were much too high as a replacement for Wii Fit. This game might get a few more plays, but I’d just as soon get a more effective real workout.
Why Jillian!! This could have been great, but it feels rushed.
Review by Heidi for Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009
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Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009
This workout kicks butt! It took me a few days to get used to it. If you don’t do the exercises correctly, you won’t get complete credit for doing them. The people that are slamming this probably are not taking the time to figure out how to do the exercises correctly. Unlike Wii Fit, you can’t cheat. Don’t get me wrong, I love Wii Fit and used it in my workout for the last year but never felt like I was getting the workout I got in one day with Jillian. With Wii Fit I was lucky if I lost a pound a week. With Jillian, I lost 3 lbs in the first week. Everday when I finish a 30 minute workout, I’m sweating.
This wasn’t intended to be a game so the graphics don’t matter. What matters is that for the first time since I started trying to get in shape, I feel like I am really getting something out of my workout.
If your looking for a game or a workout game that you don’t really have to work hard, you won’t like this. If you are looking for a workout program to use with your balance board that will make you sweat, give this a chance.
Review by Tyler Barnes for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
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I will start by saying that I’m a fan of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise. The best years in my opinion were the last couple (09 and 10). With last years game being so great, I was excited to get 11. I was disappointed to say the least. EA try to do too many changes… some were helpful but most changes took away from the game. I’ll just go with the old and trusty pro and con list.
Pros:
Addition of the Ryder Cup
Sharper graphics
Better online play
Face maker is a little better but still lacking.
Cons:
EA went to an XP only system which is spent in skills and pro shop items… In the older games, I enjoyed making money and buying new clubs etc, also making loads of money just like the pros, especially during the majors. Now you have to focus 100% on putting your XP into skill and it doesn’t seem the big tourneys make a difference… Why the change????
Ghostly limbs will grab your ball out of nowhere.
Making your player better through XP points starting out isn’t realistic… You pretty much put all your points into power to have a chance in tourneys.
Where’s Augusta? How hard could it be to get that license? No Masters this year….
EA still haven’t fixed the view problem… the one I’m referring to is the when you hit the ball on certain occasions, the view changes to something way in the distance and you can’t see how to spin your ball.
Ryder Cup takes a long time to play, 80% of the time is being spent watching the other players hit.
A Downloadable course is available… 1 course for 800 MS points!!! Why?
The players haven’t been updated in a while, they still have Dimarco, Montgomerie, and others that should have been replaced years ago by recent players that are doing well currently.
Conclustion:
I know it seems I’ve been hard on the game but I would have loved to save $60 and played Tiger Woods 10 again (I miss the money and the great situationals). I had to give it only two stars due to making a product sub par to the previous 3 titles. Next year they must bring the money factor back, newer players, and hopefully a more realistic looking set-up, swing, and divot action. The game is ok at best to play but very frustrating if you played the previous titles.
Review by M. Malinowski for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
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I’ll start this off by saying that I haven’t yet played through the Ryder Cup nor have I played through any of the PGA career. I have the swing difficulty set to Advanced using a WiiMotion Plus and I use precision putting. I played a significant amount of the 2010 version (2 PGA seasons, 2 times through the skills competition).
Right off the bat, nothing has really changed with the interface. You can “play now,” play a career, enjoy the mini-games, go online, etc. The GUI is different, but who cares about that? The career interface is the same. When you get to the character modeling, everything looks the same, except it doesn’t behave the same as the 2010 version. I literally set everything identical to my model from last year (because I had done a spot on job) and the face looked completely different. Hair and skin tones are horrible. Why did EA change something that worked fine before? Not a big deal, as it has no affect on gameplay, but annoying nonetheless.
Let’s move on to your skills. You now have only 4 categories; Power, Accuracy, Recovery, and Spin. Removed are the sub-categories, putting, and luck. Luck shouldn’t be there anyway, but putting?!?! How can you remove putting skill? Also, improving your skill is VASTLY different. You simply gain general XP points as you play, whether that be through good shots or winning competitions/tournaments. For each 25000XP that you gain, you get a single attribute point that can be put towards one of the 4 skill categories. So, if you git a 350yd drive, you don’t get power-specific XP, you just get general XP that moves your closer to the next level. Each skill category maxes out at 10 attribute points. You can gain these fairly quickly through the skills competition.
The skills competition has also changed. You now have 16 player cards (Tiger has 4) with 3 skills competitions per card (48 total) that have the bronze – silver – gold medal system. These can be quite difficult and frustrating, but are definitely fun.
Keep in mind that I have played no actual tourneys yet, just played in the skills competition. This is enough to determine that the swing physics have changed. The results no longer tell you if you hit a fade or draw, but will tell you the degree to which your club face is open/closed at impact. Even if you hit a perfectly square shot, your ball can go off line. I have hit maybe 10 square shots so far. It is extremely difficult to do compared to 2010. Hitting out of the rough….forget it. No matter what the game tells you, it will go 50% of that. It is still difficult to stick irons on the green, as they all tend to roll forward. You can’t pitch with any club aside from wedges which makes no sense whatsoever. Pitches, chips, and bunker shots seem to come out erratically. very difficult to hit accurately.
Putting is where I’ve seen the most problems. The precision putting seems the same. The percentage bar is on the left side and is fairly easy to read. However, if your pace is even slightly off, you will not hit the percentage you want to hit. Also, the ball seems to have very odd travel paths on the green. For example, if you are hitting on a slope, instead of the ball going fairly straight at first and then breaking more as it slows down, it seems to have a constant break regardless of speed. Again, totally unrealistic.
So far, I’m not impressed with this game. TW 2010 for Wii was frustrating and difficult at first…but it was a totally new way to play video game golf. The game is fun to play and legitimately challenging. TW 2011 seems to have changed things for change sake. Why mess with things that aren’t broken? I would have been perfectly happy with keeping the same skills system and same game physics. The addition of the Ryder Cup and the changing of the skills competition is the only positive change, IMO.
Last nitpicky items. You still can’t skip pre and post shot animations. Speed play option is horrible. I want to skip animations but still watch my ball flight. Its still all or nothing. Auto-save is removed and now you have to tell the game whether you want to save after every thing you do. Where are Faherty and McCord?! Bring them back! It would be nice to have a ‘restart’ option during skills competitions instead of having to back out all the way to the menu.
Review by Michael Walker for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
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We’ll begin this review with a bit of a disclaimer. I play a very popular online golf game quite frequently, so while I’ve never played a Tiger Woods game before this I do know what I like in Golf Games.
Pros:
I love the different camera options. You can choose between True Aim (which seems to be kind of like “hard mode” to me), a follow the ball Camera angle that is more well known to people who play the Golf Games I do, and a mode that I like to call “TV mode” because it kind of looks like a camera panning from player level to follow the ball from the sidelines. I really love options and that is more viewing options than most games give you.
There are, to my knowledge, two different swinging modes. The stick swing mode, which I like to call “%!@#$” because that’s what I scream each time I use it, and the much more user friendly and certainly proven system of “3-clicks”. You can toggle that on by hitting the R3 key and I did so immediately. My shot accuracy increased dramatically and I found myself much happier. About my only complaint with 3-clicks, is that if I decide I’ve got the wrong strength I, again to my knowledge, cannot cancel it and have to just go with what I’ve got or it’ll auto slice
. That’s a super small problem and it hasn’t stopped me from tying Tiger Woods Score on a course this morning which got me excited 
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The character creation mode is super in depth, I actually gave up on all the sliders. I may take pictures of my own face so I can feel like I’m a part of the game. That is an option for those that didn’t know (I sure didn’t).
The courses are gorgeous, I have a nice sized television (to me) coming in at 42 inches (or is it 40?), on the TV this game looks great! I’m rarely so pleased with the graphics of a game, normally this would never be a selling point to me. I rant constantly about how graphics are often the priority over gameplay. But since the gameplay in this is rock solid I’d say that this is a PRO.
I can get the ACTUAL weather for a course I’m playing on via the weather channel! Am I the only one that thought this was super cool? I leave it on all the time. That to me is super neat and a great touch.
My character rage poops just like I do when I miss a putt, it is fun to watch him freak out as I thrash like an upset infant on the couch.
It feels like there is tons of content, 17 holes come with the game, there is 1 new one you can buy, and there is side content and a campaign mode. It’s pretty sweet. Plus getting trophies for things like completing a full course is really satisfying. The game makes me feel very successful and it tends to applaud you with all sorts of bonuses along the way.
Cons:
The loading times get me a little bit upset at times. I’ll sink a ball in 2 swings and then be back at a loading screen. It would be great if the game preloaded the framework for the next hole as you progressed through your current one. Then just laid out the textures during the middle screen, this would have probably cut down loading times.
I’m still not exactly sure how to officially turn on true aim, I could have sworn it was different from the cinematic view because it actually gave me experience for sinking while in true aim. I’ll just read the manual though, but since I have never before had trouble being sure of a menu option this unfortunately is a negative. A small one, but a negative.
Update: I found the options menu, that really should be directly on the main screen. For those curious it is hiding behind “My Tiger 11′”
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Both on putting and on swinging I’d like a cancel button since I already know I hit too much power don’t make me watch it
. If someone knows how to do this please comment and I’ll remove this from cons (or at least put in the fix).
Yes…I know EA Sports was behind this. Could you guys calm down with your name being on every sign, shirt, shoe, sock, face tattoo, cloud in the sky, and announcement in game? Please! Jeeze guys…don’t advertise to me anymore once I own your game.
There might be others, but I can’t think of them so they must not be that big of a deal.
Final Verdict:
I got this game for free with gift cards and a 20 dollar off promotional thing from Amazon. But had I actually spent money on it I’d be very pleased with my purchase. I have no hard feelings towards Tiger for certain recent issues, and as a sport I find golf to be amazingly complex and mind boggling at times. This game really captures a lot of that emotion. I think if EA could cut back on their constant back patting when it comes to putting their name all over these games it would be a fully authentic experience worth the time.
I would like to see TWPGA12 have the ability to transfer all my purchases over from one game to the next. I doubt that’ll be the case, but if it is I just might buy the next one too. If not I’ll stick with this one
. But that’s a while from now! For now I’ll enjoy what is all around a fairly solid title with very little in the way of negatives.
Thank you for reading
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Review by The Thinker for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
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I had been waiting for TW11 for quite some time and it was absolutely worth the wait. The game takes golf to a whole new level with the introduction of True View- a view where you ‘look down’ on the ball as you would on a real life golf course. You look at the play with your own eyes and not through a camera mode- though this might be a downer for some of you who are used to playing like that. However the good news is that you can change the view to suit what you like. This game on the Wii makes full use of the motion plus (I play with that) and it just makes the experience extremely realistic with every movement of wrist mirrored exactly the same way. A perfect 1:1 mirroring. TW11 on the Wii is far superior than its HD counterparts on Xbox and PS3. The 2 new introductions of Advanced Plus and Tour Pro take full advantage of the Motion Plus-enhanced controls and enable all the subtle twists and turns in the backswing and the drive that apply the draw or fade. The tour pro is super difficult but is an amazing challenge to crack. Another amazing feature is that the game mirrors real-life weather conditions- so if it’s raining in Pebble Beach, the game will pick it up through the weather forecast channel on the Wii and it will rain in your game too! That’s simply way too cool! There has been an addition of the Ryder Cup where its US vs Europe. However I am still breaking in the game as I just got it last night. The commentary is really good and so is the music which you can choose to turn off if you don’t like. The popular disc golf is back and can now be played online and that is also a great feature. Plus they have added mini golf- all 36 holes of traditional putt-putt. One annoying thing though is that EA really pushes marketing in your face in the game. I am not sure if you would like to see EA everywhere within the game when you have already bought their game. All in all though, I am still getting through this game but till now it’s a solid 5 stars for me! A game that comes as close to the real life golf without the feedback of an actual ball hitting a real club!
Review by mojo22 for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
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Having been a loyal TW PGA Tour player since it’s earliest inception on the original PS, I can say I absolutely love the fact that the Ryder Cup has been added to this year’s edition. I used to just create my own “Ryder Cup” teams, but to have the scoring and format already in place, I think elevates this edition above previous ones. I can’t wait to create my American team to pummel my Euro brethren!
More on that later. For now, let’s get to the nuts and bolts: gameplay.
The True Aim style of gameplay is a great addition, as it allows the player to go around the course as if you are actually playing it. I always thought the “zoom” feature made the game way too easy, and I would just turn it off anyway. With True Aim, you have to really navigate the courses and figure out strategically where the best place to place the ball will be, much like actual golf. Fantastic! But fear not, if you like to just “grip and rip” then you can turn the True Aim off and go old school to zoom into your target area and let loose.
I also enjoy the Precision putting method, which really makes you take the putter head back and through on a straight line, again just like actual golf. Any other weekend hackers like myself know that getting the putter head even slightly off-line on a downhill four footer can easily turn into a “three-jack” (3 putt for those not up with the golf lingo), which I found out the hard way on my first go around Pebble Beach.
Which brings me to the courses. There are 17 different courses, plus the always popular “Random 18″, which is plenty if you ask me. The now standards of Pebble Beach, St Andrews, and TPC Sawgrass are always there, but for a real challenge go ahead and take on Oakmont or Bethpage Black from the tips, and get ready to have your hat handed to you on Pro Level. At least I did!
Now for the not so good, which is the graphics. Seriously, this is it? I am relatively new to the world of PS3, but games like NHL 10, Backbreaker Football, and MLB 10 The Show have MUCH better graphics than what is on display here. Definitely dissapointed. Chris DiMarco still looks like a fat, frumpy weekend hacker as he did in the TW PGA Tour 07 edition on PS2! Huh? Even the courses themselves leave something to be desired as standing in the fairway really looks and feels not much differently from the rough.
Overall, I am happy with my purchase of TW PGA Tour 11 and give it a solid 4 out of 5 stars. The Ryder Cup feature is worth the price of admission in of itself, and I think if EA can improve the graphics, and add some more depth to the field of players in the future, then they can keep this game elevated as a must buy year in and year out. Highly recommended.