Pretty poor (Anna Kournikova Smash Court Tennis (PS))

Member Name: danwilkie

Product:	Anna Kournikova Smash Court Tennis (PS)
Date:	24/09/01 (90 review reads)
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Advantages: Bomb Ball mode, Front cover

Disadvantages: Unrealistic

I've been searching for a decent Tennis game on the Playstation and this is the second one I tried, the first being Actua Tennis which I rented and found to be quite good.

Upon searching PLAY magazine, by far the highest rated Tennis game was Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis, so I gave it a try and rented it.

I would have preferred a realistic tennis game but I accepted that this was a cartoon style game and gave it a go anyway. Straight away I was very unimpressed as I loaded up a match and found the graphics to be a bit under-par and the ball surprisingly hard to hit at times.

I have to pay credit where it is due, the game does become playable as you try to make up for your mistakes, and there is a wide variety of shots as well as some interesting court areas, from a theme park to a street. Also the font cover is 'interesting'.

And one mode of this game that is truly unique, original and quite brilliant is the Bomb ball game where the ball is a bomb with a timer and when the time runs out it explodes. If the ball is near you when time is up, you "die" and the next member of your 5-person team takes their place on the court.

But I was unimpressed overall at the poor music and lack of realism involved, and I much preferred Actua Tennis.

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