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The stadium voice announcers, both male and female, are a little British sounding, and I had difficulty distinguishing between their 30 and their 40. The rest of the game sounds like it should, so I have no complaints there. Still, expect to hear your fair share of it. Actually I think it’s rather tame compared to what I’ve heard on the networks. The most irritating thing about Tennis, especially women’s, is the grunting. Sound effects are fairly solid, but nothing special. It isn’t hideous, it’s competently done, it’s just there. Or until you turn off the music in the options. It starts when the menu loads up and doesn’t stop until you turn off the 360. Anyway, Virtua Tennis 4 is loaded with it. Sega has a certain style when it comes to music. You can even make out the outline of the corporate sponsor on a players racquet, and it all runs fairly smoothly. You can see a cloud of dust erupt when the ball hits the ground on a clay court, or the fuzz on a ball when watching the replays. The instant replays look especially nice, although they are artificially jazzed up. Still, the rest of the game is quite fetching. And that’s exactly what the players look like they are doing when they work up a lather. And wow did the game go from looking nice to looking bizarre. They had the players sweat after a few balls had been swatted. But then the developers tried to get fancy. I instantly recognized that chap from the shaving commercials where he pals around with the disgraced golfer and the aging baseball type. The players too look amazing when you first see them. The various courts all look almost photo realistic, with real world advertising appearing everywhere, and the different playing surfaces all looking just like they do in the real world. This is much like Street Fighter 4‘s online challenge mode without the trickery of making you “accept” challengers in Arcade mode. You connect to Xbox Live, tell the game that yes you want to play online, and then you play a match of tennis versus the AI while you wait for a suitable opponent to present themselves online. And here I must give the developers credit for the best online waiting room in history. There is also an Xbox Live online component to the game. Egg collection sadly does not result in Eggman becoming a selectable character upon completion. Some of the modes include Egg collection, coin collection, wall matches, royal card matches and Ace Striker.
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Finally you get Party Mode, which is a series of mini games that are designed to make you more comfortable with the game.
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Then you get practice mode, which teaches you the basics of playing tennis, such as how to control various functions like serves. The game uses the Kinect to let you control your character’s swings. Motion play mode puts you in the skull of whichever tennis player you’ve chosen, and makes you play tennis in a first person perspective. Arcade mode can be played singles or doubles.Įxhibition mode is a one off match, allowing you to play against anyone you choose with anyone you choose, including your own creations.
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Arcade mode allows you to pick one of the professional tennis players who gave Sega the rights to their likenesses and play through the four major tournaments which aren’t actually the four major tournaments, since I’m guessing the competition got the rights to the actual names of Wimbledon, The French Open, the Australian Open, and the US Open, along with a bonus fifth match against a special opponent. Freakishly tall and gifted for an 11 year old, but I don’t judge. No seriously, you can create a character who is 11 years old. Season mode, naturally, puts you in control of a user created tennis player fresh from preschool. You have the season mode, the arcade mode, exhibition mode, the motion play mode, practice mode, and party mode. There are numerous gameplay modes found within the menus of Virtua Tennis 4. I have witnessed enough tennis highlights to know what the sport is supposed to look like when played by the pros. I know it’s a fast game, not as fast as its cousins badminton or racquetball, but still certainly faster than basketball or baseball.
I can’t understand why anyone would willingly subject themselves to watching a sport where all one does is exercise their neck muscles, but I do get the basics of the sport. I can understand terms like drop shots and lob shots.
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Through 30 plus years of continually watching sports highlight shows like ESPN SportsCenter and TSN SportsCenter I have gained a working knowledge of the sport. Tennis is not the type of game you will typically find me playing, either in real life or in a video game.