Sega Superstar Tennis (Xbox 360)

You might be wondering why someone like me, a student, would buy this type of game. The answer is very simple; the price. This game cost me a grand total of £3.99 from Play (Including postage and packaging!). As I write this review there is an advert from eBay to buy it for £7.99. I think I should also point out that my copy is brand new. Amazon are also selling this brand new for 50p; no I'm not lying it really is 50p however postage and packaging is about £5 so the cheapest copy still remains Play. After a second look i got my copy from Playtrade so the cheapest copy is no longer £3.99 however you should be able to pick this game up for less than a fiver. So I bought ...  Read the complete review

Tennis; not a sport I particularly enjoy watching, and certainly not a sport I've ever considered donning my finest Fred Perry and participating in, so any console game based on the racket sport was always going to face an uphill task trying to engage me. Sega Superstar Tennis nearly didn't deliver; I first played it last year, but getting beaten twice in quick succession and not being bothered to read the instructions and learn the controls meant I tossed it aside after half an hour of random joypad jiggery. Luckily, somebody I know started to extol its virtues as a good, fun and engaging game - so I thought I'd better slip it back into the Xbox 360's disk drive for a ...  Read the complete review

I was brought up on sonic the hedgehog (Milk would of been better, but times were hard) I had the comics, the games, the music, the videos hell i'd of bought a sonic the hedgehog home pregnancy test kit if I had found one. So when this game came along I thought why not, what a pleasant activity themed trip down memory lane this will be. And I was right, and I was wrong... The game is chock full of sega nostalgia; the stages take the themes of various sega titles from past and present (Golden axe, Jet Set Radio, Outrun to name but a few) there is music from said games, and if you still dont have enough even the achievements are sega themed (SEGA RALLY - For ...  Read the complete review

Sega Superstars Tennis is a console tennis game using many of Sega's trademark characters as the players, this means that each has their own special powers and characteristics which make them good or bad players. Players included in this game include, Sonic the Hedgehog, AiAi from Super Monkeyball fame, Ulala of Space Channel 5 and Amigo from Samba De Amigo. There are a wide variety of settings based on the arenas each character hails from, so you can play in the Green Hill Zone as Sonic or Carnival Park if you play as Amigo. The game in concept is a good one, the idea that each character has their own special characteristics is good and there ...  Read the complete review

At first glance, Sega Superstars Tennis looks like one of those nothing games that would be better suited to a Wii. Stupid, fluffy characters hitting a ball around whilst accomplishing very little. Right? WRONG. I first picked this game up for a bargain price on the Wii, and it was almost unplayable. However I liked what the game tried to do so I bought it on 360 instead. Perfect. It's much, much more suited to a controller, and is a surprisingly deep game. The controls are excellent - controlling in a very similar way to Virtua Tennis, and each character has a special move, which is a great addition and adds an extra twist to the game, in a similar way to the ...  Read the complete review