James Hamblin Writes:
"It would be convenient to regard 2K Sport's Top Spin 3 and SEGA's Virtua Tennis 3 as the Federer and Nadal of tennis videogames. Just as the Swiss and Spaniard are some distance ahead of their rivals on every surface, there's very little of a field to challenge the two games on both the lush green of the 360 and the black hard-court of the PS3. But while Federer's finesse belies his power, and vice-versa for Nadal, there's no apparent similarity between Virtua and Top Spin. The former is very much an arcade experience while the latter is all about realism - so perhaps the comparisons are misplaced (in any event, what would all this make Smash Court Tennis? Novak Djokovic?). Whether you want to draw parallels or not, Top Spin 3 is the best tennis simulator currently available, with the emphasis firmly on simulator - although its position in this camp isn't quite as staunch as it might initially seem."
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.
