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If you really like tennis and want to play a few sets either in career mode or in exhibition matches with the likes of Federer, Murray and Nadal (no Williams sisters though, for shame) then this might scratch that itch for you a little but for anyone looking for fun or even an introduction to the sport, this just isn’t accessible or fun enough.
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We’d feel the game more then but this all feels like if FIFA and PES took a generational break and then Actua Soccer made a comeback to fill the gap.
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If when you faced a decent player, those cards and gear would give you the edge. Maybe it’d all work if there was balance here. Maybe that stuff would come alive if the gameplay was good. We can’t see many people caring in the slightest. Those parts give you stat boosts but also reductions so you’ll be having to figure out if you want a few points less slice and more topspin. The game lets you buy new tops, shorts, socks and every composite part of a tennis racket. You’ll want to do this, if only to get your avatar out of his or her terrible default outfit. Progress in the game does allow you to gear up your career pro. Except the tennis here isn’t fun and so you’d rather be playing… well, anything else. More things to read and consider when you’d rather just be playing tennis. You’re either going to win or lose, the cards aren’t going to change that and frankly it’s all just a bit of a faff. On top of that the game has a rather misjudged deck-building card system where cards can offer you very minor perks and stamina boosts but matches never come down to this. I mean, there are some minigames and it’s all tied to a pretty deep XP-based stats system but it’s slow and unrewarding. The main meat of the game is in the career mode but this is just what Virtua Tennis did but without the fun minigames to break up the tedium. This is just another tennis game with the same tournaments and modes that we’ve been playing since tennis games became a thing. When you do win points, it feels pretty good but even when you get that little bit of dopamine, the sad truth about Tennis World Tour 2 is that we’ve seen it all before and all done better. It’s not about skill, although practice and determination will help a little, but rather that the game engine just isn’t your friend at all. The AI is going to put the ball to your left or your right but the controls are just too stiff for you to do much with their return, putting you on the back foot immediately. When I did eventually get into the flow of the game I still found that I was at a massive disadvantage whenever I served. I spent a long time trying to perfect my serve timing to no avail in the game’s ‘Tennis School’ mode and found that most of my matches ended in defeat no matter what tactical approach I took. The on-court action is sluggish, unresponsive and frustrating. However, Tennis World Tour 2 does fall into the ‘sim’ camp but not so much because of realism but rather just the fact that it isn’t enough fun to be an ‘arcade’ title. Likewise, the Virtua Tennis games have arcade roots but they actually do a pretty good job of simulating all the nuances of tennis. I mean FIFA for example may have every conceivable detail but still feels arcadey to play while PES is seen as the more serious title but really doesn’t feel entirely different. There’s often a lot made of the divide in sports games between ‘arcadey’ games and ‘sim’ style ones but often this doesn’t mean much. Now, previously Ian reviewed the game and we’re pretty low on reviewers right now so rather than being faced with his immediate resignation and suicide, I took over reviewing duties figuring that the hours I put into tennis games over the last few decades (from Super Tennis to a hard-earned achievements max on Virtua Tennis 4) would stand me in good stead.
#TENNIS WORLD TOUR 2 HOW TO SERVE PS4#
We actually reviewed the PS4 version of this sequel last September, giving it 4 out of 10, a score that was in range of its Metacritic rating but Nacon have given the game a fresh coat of paint and shuffled it out on PS5 where it promises more modes (including four player doubles), addition players, new courts and a raft of gameplay tweaks. Tennis World Tour 2 is the sequel to Big Ben Interactive’s poorly received tennis game Tennis World Tour. Main PS5 / Reviews tagged nacon / simulation / sport / tennis / tennis world tour 2 by Richie