Dangerous Golf. Remember that title, gentle readers. It's one you're likely to hear again when Three Fields Entertainment makes its debut this spring.
Three Fields is headed up by Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward, both of whom co-founded Criterion Games. Because of these two, the Burnout series and all of its glorious, slow-motion car crashes exists. Not to mention Burnout Paradise, one of the best games of all time.
Sperry and Ward left Criterion to start Three Fields Entertainment, and Dangerous Golf is their first project. And much like the Burnout series, it involves breaking stuff. With style.
High scores in Dangerous Golf aren't connected to sinking the ball quickly. This is a game where you earn points for trick shots, pinpoint ricochets and using power-ups to do things like turn your golf ball into a bomb.
The game's environments toss conventional golf aside as well, inviting players to smack balls around in mundane settings, such as a gas station or hotel kitchen, and fantastical ones, including a Medieval castle.
All that's really missing at this point is a look at the game in action. Most fans of video games remember 2015's unconventional sports game, Rocket League, which can be summed up in two words: "car soccer."
Is Dangerous Golf poised to establish itself as 2016's answer to car soccer? We'll see. Three Fields claims to have a series of upcoming games based around "speed, danger, excitement, and destruction."