Virtua Tennis 2

You might have not thought of it but if you mull over for a second you will find that the first ever tennis game was Pong. Those of you out there who are unaware of Pong, Pong was a antiquated tennis game with a little exception, it had no net. Pong was a huge success and up till now very few tennis games have made their mark, among those Namco’s Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament is prominent to some extent. Not even the big names such as Electronic Arts have not been able to develop a tennis game.

But one thing revolutionized the tennis games forever and that thing is SEGA Dreamcast. SEGA released arcade styled Virtua Tennis and it really hit the spot but due to SEGA’s hardware failure only few people were able to get in touch with it. but later on its sequel was also developed on PlayStation 2.

And to make it more exciting for your taste buds SEGA has gotten the rights of 16 real players names and comprises both male and female players such as Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Magnus Norman, Lindsay Davenport, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Patrick Rafter, Ai Sugiyama, Mary Pierce, Alexandra Stevenson, Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario, Tim Henman, Carlos Moya, Tommy Haas, Cedric Pioline, Monica Seles and Thomas Enqvist.

Top Spin 2

The developers at Indie/PAM and publisher 2K Sports were right about giving a bit of extra time to Top Spin 2 before hitting it to the market, must have derived this tactic from Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter as they made the decision to delay it. The preview of Top Spin was not captivating and little hard to be appreciated but for those who have affinity towards tough, demanding game of videogame tennis, the Top Spin 2 is out.

Top Spin 2 is the successor of Xbox’s game, Top Spin. Top Spin borrowed a lot from Viruta Tennis series which was SEGA’s tennis game and was a very renowned tennis game. Virtua tennis basically revolutionized the world of tennis. It manifested that how you can create spontaneous controls and making hitting the ball as easily as perceived. With its arcadey style and tight gameplay SEGA’s game helped triggering many tennis games but no one was as good as SEGA’s. But Top Spin takes Virtua Tennis to the upper level, offering simple mechanics that are easy to go along with and takes more than simple arcade mechanics to master them.

Top Spin 2 offers variety of courts to play upon, almost 19 courts. Offering over 24 licensed men and women pros and four modes of play that are exhibition, career, party games and Xbox Live online play.