‘Ghetto Golf’: Finally, a video game combines golf with machine guns
If you’ve ever been playing Tiger Woods on the Wii, and switched to your pitching wedge, and thought, “Man, if only I could use my AK for this shot,” your prayers have been answered.
Raphael Saadiq, an R&B singer and former member of Tony! Toni! Toné!, is now a video game developer and is shopping a game called “Ghetto Golf.” It’s based on a childhood hobby of his, which involved making golf holes out of anything he could find on the streets of Oakland, and the game is set in the Bay Area. You shoot your way through the streets in an attempt to gain entry to an exclusive country club, and along the way complete Grand Theft Auto-style missions in a quest to actually find the holes you’re supposed to be playing. And of course, ghost-riding the whip is involved.
From MTV’s Multiplayer blog via Sportaphile:
One of the playable scenes they showed involved the hero Vonte needing to use his exploding golf ball to blow up a car that someone was ghost-riding. The player could sheath Vonte’s machine gun, flick past his spiked golf ball and his rubber golf ball to try his explosive golf ball and aim it with a swing at the car.
I would like for the first commercial to be a parody of the “I Am Tiger Woods” classic. “I’m Vonte. I’m Vonte. I am Vonte (hail of exploding golf balls)”
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By Peter on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 6:17 pm.