Worthplaying:
''The last time I played a tennis game, it was from the Virtua Tennis series a few console generations ago. Top Spin 3 has certainly taken to improving the tennis simulation genre and offers a great single-player career mode as well as online multiplayer. If you're looking for one of the most technically accurate licensed tennis games, Top Spin 3 is it.
Let's start with the Top Spin School, which serves as the game's tutorial. Here, you'll learn all of the fundamentals through a trial-and-error setup for serving, returning, and how to control your shots with some sense of accuracy. While the school offers several different focuses (serving, volleying, mixed, returns, etc.), each of them feels exactly the same. You have to hit the ball into a marked-off zone to proceed through challenges, and may the tennis gods help you if you don't. You'll repeat the same event over and over and over until you hit things just right. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as the title is helping condition you to play the game the way it's meant to be played. After trying to serve the ball into a tiny little square in the corner 30 times, you'll be about done with the school and move on to other aspects of the game.''
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.
