Despite that fact it is still the best looking golf game going. The nearly photo realistic courses look spectacular in any display resolution from 800x600 up to 1800x1440 and 32 bit color. The down side is still the same, it can take quite some time to redraw your golfer on the course on lower end machines. On the minimum spec rig it was not uncommon to take ten or more seconds for the computer to think about the drawing and display it. That's acceptable, but it does remind one of the sedate pace of the real life game.
Sound effects are still first rate, though the new caddy comments do get old quickly.
There are some very amusing comments to be sure, but hearing them three times in your first round is enough. They also sometimes are just plain wrong, commenting on a great shot that hit the rough or a shot that is long when it is short of the hole. I don't remember this problem from previous versions of the game and for the first time I contemplated, and then did, turn off the caddy commentary. In the final analysis Links LS 2000 keeps the series on top. With many new courses, a new easier to get into swing style and the same great, realistic golf experience, it is still the tour champion.