

Initially, I was being easily matched by Laura Robson when I was playing as Rafa Nadal.

The big addition to the game-play is the 'match-moment', which is a super-powerful shot that can be unleashed after powering up a bar in the HUD.Įach player has specific abilities that should be utilised to exert pressure on opponents - Roddick has his big serve, for example - and playing these shots powers up the match-moment bar more quickly.ĭespite this admittedly interesting addition, I have to say I found the movement and control of the players to be quite difficult, and the AI of opponents seemed to be arbitrary. This is unusual and again, not too strong on verisimilitude, but has a cartoonish fun to it. The career mode plays out in the manner of a board game - Sega doesn't have the licences to the tournaments so you end up travelling around the globe using numbered cards to advance along the steps, either training, competing, or meeting fans and taking part in photo ops. So far, so weird, but not altogether unenjoyable. Virtua Tennis 4: Still a coin-op at heart
