Virtua Tennis 2009 (Xbox 360)

Firstly, I dont want this to be a rant about how bad this game is, without looking at a few positives first. Graphically, its pretty good, and you feel like your player is actually taking the shot, rather than ridiculous cross court shots with no bad swing you see on some games. However that is unfortunatly where the positives end. The gameplay seems awkward and forced. Difficult to pick up and play, even with time and effort one lapse in consentration and your lose the point. OK prehaps this is just trying to simulate the realism of tennis, but the things that make other sporting games successful is that appears real, without being too difficult. This game ...  Read the complete review

I found that this year's Virtua Tennis to be fantastic (in my opinion). I love it that Roger Federer, Nadal and Murray are included in this year's version. I heard that they were not in the last year's edition (just what I heard). I bought Virtua Tennis two years ago and didn't particularly like it. I don't know why. The reason why I bought this year's is probably because I played it in a Game shop on the Xbox 360 and found it really enjoyable, so then I bought it. I also might have found this year's more interesting because I have got into playing Tennis a lot more over the past few years. As it says on the back cover of the game 'net and stumble game play give ...  Read the complete review