Former Criterion Devs Three Field Entertainment Announce Dangerous Golf

Built on Unreal Engine 4 with proper physics, Dangerous Golf is all about “causing fantastic destruction” and shattering “priceless heirlooms into small pieces” while painting the walls with physically simulated liquids. Both indoor and outdoor locations, including “a hotel kitchen, a glittering palace ballroom, a rural gas station and a stately medieval castle” are featured in the game.

There’s an emphasis on multiplayer play and high scorce-chasing, with local multiplayer sitting alongside online turn-based play, as well as the leaderboards you might expect.

You aren’t competing for the lowest number of shots here, but rather dollars worth of damage as a high score, where players are rewarded for their trick shots and ricochet skills, but also for turning your golf ball into a bomb and using it to wreak havoc. Most known for their work on the Burnout franchise, Criterion was eventually bought by EA and morphed into Ghost Games, who now work on the Need for Speed titles.

Dangerous Golf will be available in May of this year as a downloadable game in the Xbox and PlayStation stores, as well as on Steam. So you’re truly playing together and you have one score.

“We’re big fans of NBA Jam, and thought if those guys are still around and they made a golf game what would it be like?” offered Ward.

Three Fields Entertainment has revealed its new game, Dangerous Golf.

When considering what sort of Burnout-inspired projects a studio formed by ex-Criterion developers could create, golf doesn’t seem like the logical first option. “But now we’re an independent company we’re targeting very, very high-end PC”.

As real-world sports/games go, golf is not considered to be very risky. Let us know in the comments down below! I’m officially looking forward to it.

And if Dangerous Golf is a success, Three Fields intends to follow it up with a spiritual successor to classic PS2/Xbox racer Burnout 3: Takedown. A price has yet to be announced.