Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Virtua Tennis 4 Review

The Good

  • Unique minigames are lots of fun   
  • Easy to learn.

The Bad

  • Overly simple controls lack depth   
  • Unrealistic sound effects   
  • Irritating music  
  • Camera angles make it difficult to use Move.
Considering Virtua Tennis was once the king of tennis games, its latest iteration is particularly disappointing, doing little to keep up with competition from 2K's excellent Top Spin 4. The graphical tweaks are nice, and the new minigames are fun, but at its core, Virtua Tennis 4's position-based shot mechanics are essentially identical to those in the 1999 arcade original. They're easy to pick up, but they feel dated and unrefined by today's standards, giving fans of the series a distinct feeling of deja vu and making you crave greater control over the ball. It’s not as if there's fun content to play through either. The career mode is inherently flawed, the online options limited, and the Move implementation is terrible.

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