Everybodys Tennis (PS2)

After nearly a decade of success with their Everybody's Golf franchise (particularly popular in Japan), Sony decided to expand their sports range by giving developers Clap Hanz the reigns on a tennis game tailored in a similar spirit. The same principles have been applied; bright presentation, the prospect of a strong multiplayer and easy to learn controls that cater for less experienced gamers. Without wishing to make unnecessary clichés though, tennis proves a whole different ball game to golf. Everybody's Tennis gets the bits you'd expect right; visually it's attractive, with a range of snazzy courts that include locations such as streets, beaches and ...  Read the complete review

The Everybody's Golf series has won many fans over the 10 years of its releases and unsurprisingly so with its addictive cartoon style of Gameplay mixing simplicity with replayability. Yet I'm surprised that a spin off has never emerged until now. In the slow demise of the Playstation 2, does Everybody's Tennis have something special to capture people's attention with? Will it execute the same addictive mixes that its sister series holds so close to perfection? Released in April 2007, Everybody's Tennis (Hot Shots Tennis in the US) does try ever so hard to reintroduce the simple style that games such as Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis used to make itself ...  Read the complete review

So how many times can you play a tennis game without getting bored, afterall it's just the same thing back a forth. Well not long but with Virtua Tennis there was enough little mini games plus a ratehr engageing career mode to carry you through and give the game a longer lifespan. How does Everybody's Tennis compare? For a start much like Everybody's Golf, they take a different route by leaving realism aside and taking a more cartoonish yet still fun route to Tennis. The game kinda reminds me of a tennis game I played on the PSX years ago, I think it was called Smash Court Tennis, as some shots have big aftertouch and theres actually not that much ...  Read the complete review

i am often a fan of tennis games, however i find this game very dissapointing. this is the first 'cartooney' game i have bought and i thought it was quite boring, offering little variety in the game compared to other tennis games. perhaps the game is not aimed at tennis fans such as myself, however i still think the game is not worth the low price! i can see how many users would find it fun... especially the younger generations! however i think anyone would grow bored of the game after playing it for too long, which is a real shame. i think games of this kind can work well, and i am a great fan of other cartoon sports games such as 'wii tennis' however this game does not ...  Read the complete review