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1. VIRTUA TENNIS 4 PC REVIEW HOW TO
2. VIRTUA TENNIS 4 PC REVIEW SERIES
3. VIRTUA TENNIS 4 PC REVIEW SIMULATOR

The kicker here is players can only buy one voucher from each shop-so there's no stocking up.

VIRTUA TENNIS 4 PC REVIEW HOW TO

The only ways to rest are at resorts on the map (more juggling vouchers and trying to figure out how to reach them without missing important events) or "recovery cards," which can be purchased (alongside move vouchers) from, you guessed it, various spots on the map. That it's almost totally random sucks.Īdding insult to injury is fatigue, which means the player gets tired and needs rest. It's a vicious cycle that the player never really recovers from. Missing tournaments means missing more stars, which means…well, you get the picture. If the player has bad luck with the random movement vouchers, odds are they'll not have enough stars and miss the tournaments. The medium tournament of each continent and the Grand Slam event require a certain amount of stars to be able to enter. This is decidedly un-fun.īut wait, it gets better! Players earn star ranking points for participating in charity events, exhibitions, and tournaments.

VIRTUA TENNIS 4 PC REVIEW SIMULATOR

So what's supposed to be a tennis game quickly devolves into an annoying "vacation planner" simulator as you try to figure out where your vouchers will get you and how that might affect the next three turns. The problem is, if your guy wants to enter a tournament that's one space away and you have a three move voucher, you miss that tournament. Instead, you get a random voucher each time you use one-which can move the player anywhere from 1-4 spaces on the map. The thing is, Coach is apparently clueless-because he can't actually give you whatever voucher you want. Your "coach" will talk to you through text menus-and explain that he'll give you "flight vouchers" so you can travel around. Once all that's done, it's on to the World Tour-which is basically a gigantic map that looks like something out of a board game. If that weren't enough, players can even personalize their grunt from several different options. There are choices for forehand swing styles (I went with a loopy semi-western grip forehand, personally-just like real life), to a one or two-handed backhand, to their serve motion. Once physical choices are done, the player can then customize the avatar's game. Customization options are fairly robust-there are countless sliders that can be tweaked and adjusted to make the onscreen model look handsome or like a hideous Chud who just crawled out of the sewer. World Tour mode begins with customizing an avatar. There's definitely some replay value here-even in the single player experience. It's taken me three trips through the world tour mode and I'm still not quite the best in the world. The tour is where players will spend the bulk of their time, building their customized avatar and taking him (or her) across the globe in a quest to become the world's top seed. The game is broken up into several modes-including exhibition, which mirrors the original arcade game from 1999, online mode, training modes, and the World Tour. Players looking for a more realistic tennis experience would be better served by picking up Top Spin, but hackers who just want to run around ripping shots without worrying about hitting balls long or into the net will find that VT4 should fulfill their Wimbledon dreams. Setting the problems aside (for now), VT4 is a mostly fun arcade-styled tennis sim. Come on, Sega-I'm Jim Courier, not Vasco de Gama… It's a bit of an odd game, if only because I felt as though I spent far less time playing tennis than I did engaging in mini-games and figuring out how to best use my movement tokens to navigate the map screen.

VIRTUA TENNIS 4 PC REVIEW SERIES

This latest outing in the series is essentially what VT fans have come to expect-only with some puzzling design decisions that occasionally mar the experience. Wii Tennis was pretty cool for about ten minutes-but nothing quite compares to ripping a forehand winner down the line with Rafael Nadal. The names of (some) players have been replaced with a younger generation of talent, but at its core VT4 is still essentially king of the arcade-like tennis experience. Things are different in Virtua Tennis 4 ( VT4)-the newest installment in the franchise-and yet underneath it all, they're still essentially the same. It's been over a decade since Virtua Tennis landed on the Sega Dreamcast-and while Sega's much-loved console has been consigned to the annals of video game history, the game lives on. WTF Why does Rafael Nadal look like he's sweating milk? LOW Needing to move one space to enter a tournament and having no one space move vouchers. HIGH Working your opponent into a corner and then unleashing an inside out forehand for a winner on match point.