For anyone that's played any version of Virtua Tennis over the past few years, you'll find the gameplay hasn't changed much. It's still easy to learn. And it's still addictive.
The gameplay is simplicity at its finest. Just three face buttons to use for three different shot-types. There's nothing like ripping out a crosscourt backhand and watching the shot again on the overhead replay. Anyone will be able to play this game, so it's great for when you have a few people around.
The graphics are great and, again, they haven't changed much. Just about everything in the arcade and console versions of the game is represented in the portable version. Right down to the marks the ball leaves on the court surface during a rally.
The sound is pretty standard fare. Nothing really stands out as either horrible or fantabulous. There are some faults (not a pun) though.
First, the game will completely freeze for a fraction of a second after every point in a game -- seemingly to access the appropriate sound files from the UMD to read out the score. Reading other reviews, this issue seems to be widespread. It's quite shocking this wasn't picked up in Quality Control.
The World Tour (career mode) is an exercise in patence. Want to build your characters stats? Navigate to the appropriate minigame on the world map. But the world map is slugglish to navigate, momentarily freezing the game as it loads images. Want to dress up your character? Go into a shop and have a browse. But the shop is sluggish to navigate, momentarily freezing the game as it loads images. Noticing a pattern?
The load times aren't especially bad. But when you're loading a training minigame that you know will last only 30 seconds, they can be frustrating.
But, at the end of the day, it's still a great game built on the wonderfully simple, yet addictive gameplay which translates beautifully to a portable system. Perfect for a quick bash.
The game could do with a little more optimisation, but if you're a fan of the Virtua Tennis series (or just tennis in general) it's definitely worth picking up.
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anyone know if other places are getting it earlier or if EB was just wrong? :P
