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To be a successful tennis player, you must be hugely fit, fast, have a natural gift for the game... and, of course, a great grunt. The louder the noise you can make while hitting the ball - even sounding like you've stood on a bear-trap - the more you...
The refreshed world tour mode is novel and engaging...
Kinect play is disappointing and limited.
There's the usual tweaking in this incarnation of Virtua Tennis, but the twin pillars of change are a story of success and failure. The new World Tour format is a highly engaging way to build your virtual tennis player, but the Kinect implementation is...
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Published May 20th 2011. Written by Gloria Preston. Virtua Tennis was the perfect arcade tennis game and got everything right first time around. Over the years bells and whistles have been added and the graphics updated to keep it looking fresh, but at...
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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” seems to be the guiding design principal for Sega’s classic Tennis series. While the graphics change and game modes come and go, Sega hasn’t really meddled much over the series four iterations (six if you include the...
Addictive gameplay, motion controls added, expanded range of players...
Motion controls are fun rather than realistic (might be a pro for some...)...
This is a superb and furiously addictive game of arcade tennis, which gives the established Virtua Tennis gameplay a new shine...
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Videogames have many life lessons to teach us, nearly all of them wrong. Collecting 100 rings provides the secret to immortality, not a trip to debtor’s jail.Skill shots, a board game map, weird fans. There's plenty on offer, here.Consuming strange mus...
A classic formula tweaked to accommodate greater tactical variety. By and large successful, besides greater variety and an AI tweak or two. 7.9/10Print this pageComments (0)Share this pageNoticed something wrong? Report error/mistake.Add to my profile...
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We had to pinch ourselves to check we were awake. One moment we were playing Sega's latest tennis gem, the next our virtual tennis player was running around the court hatching chicks from eggs and leading them to a giant mother hen while machines spa...
Pitch-perfect tennis, as long as you're not expecting the motion controls to play a big part...
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Thinking about it, it's a little bit surprising that there aren't more tennis video games. After all, what else is tennis but a real-life attempt to mimic Pong? I might have that backwards, but still, tennis games are pretty few and far between, and th...
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I’m drawn to sports like tennis; specifically, it’s the angles and spin that can be applied to the ball. It’s not just tennis, in fact, but soccer, baseball, golf, billiards, and table tennis all draw me in for the same reason. There is just something...
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Tennis is not the type of game you will typically find me playing, either in real life or in a video game. Through 30 plus years of continually watching sports highlight shows like and I have gained a working knowledge of the sport. I can understand...
There is nothing here that would make me scream run out and buy this game. It can provide some entertainment but is it really worth your effort when so many other great games are out there? Michael O'Reilly Based out of Toronto Ontario, Michael is a...
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The mechanics are second nature to fans of the series. Swings types are assigned to the buttons, while the stick is used to aim your shot. One new addition can be found in the power gauge, which builds slowly with successful shots. The player can unle...
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Where Top Spin 4 honed and refined its complex tennis engine to better support newcomers this time around, Virtua Tennis 4 hits the shelves seemingly with little room for growth. Having raced out of the gates with the original title to critical acclaim...
Where Top Spin 4 honed and refined its complex tennis engine to better support newcomers this time around, Virtua Tennis 4 hits the shelves seemingly with little room for growth. Having raced out of the gates with the original title to critical acclaim...
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Virtua Tennis is one of those video game franchises that no matter how many new iterations it spawns, it will never deviate a whole lot from the core gameplay it established years ago. Sega got it right the first time, and over the years, they’ve bee...
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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...
Unique minigames are lots of fun, Easy to learn.
Overly simple controls lack depth, Unrealistic sound effects, Irritating music, Camera angles make it difficult to use Kinect.
Virtua Tennis 4 is a weak tennis game that fails to bring the series back to its glory days...
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Tennis game developers have a hard job. The tennis game may follow a pretty simple formula, but as such requires a greater number of features and extras in order to have a lasting appeal and avoid the inevitable monotony of the back and forth gameplay...
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Sega's latest Virtua Tennis title boasts the same fun gameplay the franchise has become known for, but spotty motion controls and a lackluster world tour mode seriously hurt its replayability.Virtua Tennis 4 is a victim of the times. Launched in an era...
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2012-01-25 06:39:45
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It's probably a good thing that tennis video games aren't an annual endeavor. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Top Spin and Virtua Tennis, but looking at SEGA's Virtua Tennis 4 – and how little has changed in the tennis world in the last four years –...
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...
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