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Virtua Tennis 4
Virtua Tennis 4 is an action-oriented tennis game which focuses on fast matches instead of being a realistic simulation. The heart of the game is the career mode in which the player creates his own avatar. The goal is simple: reaching the top within four seasons. Here the player has various possibilities to improve his tennis player, e.g. by playin...
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The PlayStation Move tennis grand slam final between 2K Sports' Top Spin 4 and SEGA's Virtua Tennis 4 is a match-up between two totally different play styles: whereas 2K offered a simulation fully playable with Move, SEGA has stayed true to its series' arcade roots by limiting the motion control to exhibition matches and minigames. Which game lifts the gold trophy?
Virtua Tennis 4 is a fun tennis game, after you dig through all the fluff: Mini-games and a needlessly complex career mode. If you already got your fill of Virtua Tennis 3 then there isn't a lot of new stuff in here, which is a shame, but it's still a very solid arcade tennis title. At least PS3 owners now get online play (in theory!), and Trophies this time around.
- Injury during a big tournament is something you'd never want to face. Even if you had your health bar filled, there is no way you can use your healing ticket to fill it up while you are inside a tournament. The injury mostly comes during the last match and that's what most annoying. Because you can't go back and play so many matches again and be at the final. Even if you do, you'll still have to face the injury.
You’d probably think I hate Virtua Tennis after reading this review. That’s far from the truth, I’ve sunk many hours into the series since its inception in 1999. There’s just something not quite right about this iteration. Keeping a series fresh is undoubtedly difficult, but Virtua Tennis has taken a step backwards that changes simple fun for considerable irritation. It’ll still appeal to the die-hard fans, but for anyone else, the post-Wimbledon blues will have truly set in.
Whatever happened to releasing tennis games when Wimbledon came rolling around? Huh? It’s only the blinking biggest tennis event of the year and not to take advantage of all that noise seems a little pointless. Still, with Virtua Tennis 4 here and Top Spin 4 in close competition we finally get to see whether one of these juggernauts can land a match point. Reference to Wimbledon: check. Below par tennis pun: check. Now on with the show.