Its exclusion, and the fact that the crowds barely make a sound at all, makes everything feel lifeless.Įven though ATP greats like Roger Federer, Grigor Dimitrov, Alexander Zverev are present and have different strengths and skills, they may as well effectively be avatar swops. There’s little feedback to your shots in general, something that could easily have been alleviated with some controller rumble. It’s a bit of poor feedback, which makes the game feel unresponsive. One thing that makes games feel frustrating is if you go for a shot, and the CPU know you’ll miss it, you won’t even swing your racket, instead just aimlessly running towards the ball. If you’re expecting intense volleys that build up to a crescendo of excitement, you’ll only be disappointed. Because of this AI takeover, just about every player plays the same, leading to some incredibly dull Tennis. For some reason, the game sometimes decides what shots you’d like to do on its own, going for a safe slice when you’ve intended to do a riskier spin. You can charge shots to increase their power, and control the height of your shots. You’re able to direct where the ball goes fairly well, switching between flat shots, spins, lobs and slices with different face buttons. The core mechanics themselves are serviceable. Many other problems prevent Tennis World Tour from being much fun to play. This stuff will all be coming in future patches, which the game sorely needs to address other areas.
Also missing is any form of Doubles Tennis, but at least the developer had the good grace to mention this months ago.
It’s an omission that was only revealed once the game was made available in select territories, with the developer saying that they hope players “will enjoy the local multiplayer or start your journey to the top in career mode in the meantime. As of writing, there’s no online functionality, something that’s made apparent by the greyed-out menu option you’ll see when you start the game up. Tennis World Tour is a shambles a half-baked, incomplete game that should never have been released in its current state. The studio is made up of many former developers behind Top Spin 4, so expectations were high that we’d finally have a worthwhile Tennis game this generation. Tennis World Tour, from Breakpoint Studios is a spiritual successor to what is widely considered to be the best Tennis game ever made. It offers a comprehensive and robust career mode, incredible tennis mechanics that make the game exciting and lively, depth, challenge and intuitive controls.
Released in 2011, Top Spin 4 is critically acclaimed, and for a good reason.
It’s been seven years since we’ve had a good Tennis simulation from a major publisher.
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