While you can gather friends around your PC with a couple of pads - which is ridiculous fun - there's no excuse for the lack of online when the ruddy Xbox 360 version has it.
It's what I imagine Tim Henman's recurring nightmare about winning Wimbledon looks like.Īll good, except for one very stupid omission - no online multiplayer.
Strange FruitĪlso, you have instant access to over half-a-dozen 'court games' that include the bowling extravaganza Pin Crusher and my personal favourite Avalanche, a hilarious mini-game where your chosen tennis pro has to collect fruit that rolls down towards him, while dodging giant tennis balls. Basically a hugely addictive RPG mode, in World Tour you can create your own tennis star and take part in compos and mini-games to build up your stats and buy better clothing, rackets and other gear. In single-player, VT3 has tons of variety, with 20 male and female tennis pros (but no Andy Murray), singles and doubles games, tournaments and World Tour. Like PES, Sega's sports game just feels right - you get real satisfaction when you hit a perfect return from a serve, or smash a crucial backhand into the corner to win a point, and the improved animation adds to the fluidity of the action. Virtua Tennis 3 gives you three types of shot - slice, top spin and lob - although the timing and the ability to 'charge up' shots allows you to pull off a huge array of different ones, which is where the skill of a master player is revealed. Virtua Tennis is the Pro Evolution Soccer of the sport, providing the instant accessibility of an arcade game, with the hidden depths and secrets of a hardcore title - the classic 'easy to learn, difficult to master1 aesthetic that marks out true classics. With The Kind of euphoria that's screeched by numerous middle-aged ladies from Henman Hill during Wimbledon fortnight we welcome back the third iteration to PC after Virtua Tennis 2 failed to show.
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