GI.net: "There are several game modes in Top Spin 3. Like most other tennis games, there are Exhibition, Career and Tournament modes. The Career mode requires you to build your own player using the player creator, which goes into an extensive amount of detail. You can customize virtually every facet of your player, including the ability to mold his or her face manually. So if you feel like you're the next Michelangelo, you can spend a fair bit of time trying to sculpt your masterpiece. After finishing the design process, you begin your career as an amateur until you win enough matches to turn pro. Winning matches rewards your player with development points that allow you to improve your player's specific skill set such as the forehand, backhand or service as well as others.
Once you have made your character and built them to your preferences, you can try your luck on Xbox Live with the World Tour mode. Each tour lasts half a month, and people from around the world compete in real tournaments to crown a champion. If you ever get tired of the normal Career mode against computer opponents or you just like to play against other people in a competitive setting, this online World Tour is a great feature that goes beyond the also available random online matchup. But before you start your quest for competitive tennis domination, it is important to learn how to play, and that is where the Top Spin School mode comes in to teach you everything you need to know."
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.
