TeamXbox writes: "Man, Pong sure has come a long way. We've gone from a black screen with a white line on it and balls like flying sugarcubes, all the way up to deeply detailed court surfaces, hyper-realistic lighting, real world players and physics that would make Sir Isaac Newton flip his powdered wig.
Now tennis fans, before you start writing me angry letters about why tennis is not Pong (totally different, let's move on), you gotta admit that down deep they have a lot in common. But 2K's upcoming Top Spin 3 is straining that distant cousin-hood to the max by making something more akin to a real tennis simulator. Top Spin 3 is not only a highly accurate visual representation of the sport, it's attempting to do the same thing on the gameplay side. By making a very realistic feeling tennis game with enough granularity of control to play a more complex version of the sport, they're introducing a slightly new way of playing the game. Something with a little more depth than hit it right, hit it left, etc. Pong can do that."
OPM: Thousands of Brits will be inspired to pick up a racket this week on the back of Andy Murray’s success at Wimbledon – but in this heat, and given our hand-eye co-co-ordination, we’ll be sticking to the virtual type. Looking to fill your week with some ace-smashing antics? Then join us in revisiting PlayStation’s finest tennis efforts…
Not really, most of those games were available on multiple platforms.
Just so happens that the PS magazine wrote the article so makes sense it would be 'Playstation's greatest games' :)
Gamepyre writes: "When Virtua Tennis 2009 first came out I was very excited about the game; I was so excited that I actually went and got it on release day.
Virtua Tennis 3 has been one of my favorite PSP games, and I could not wait to see what the 2009 Xbox 360 version of the game brought to the table. After playing the game, I was very disappointed in Virtua Tennis 2009; not because it was a bad game per say, but because it wasn't anything new from the previous release."
Another week and another episode of Distributed Failure is here for your listening pleasure. This week's "What They've Been Playing" features discussion on Top Spin 3, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Fight Night Round 4, Battlefield 1943, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and much more! They follow that up with some gaming news including the latest update on EGM, the addition of prizes to 1 vs. 100, and the announcement of a new Mechwarrior game.
hhaaha the ps3 demo looks way better than that. ps3 looks real. i dont hate, i just notice.