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Fun with the family/wife

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: May 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Hey,
this is the game you want to play with your wife / girl friend. It is cool and fun. It looks amazing and it is fast ... just pure fun.

Table Tennis? Why the heck? I'll tell you why!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok I love table tennis in real life. I just have to try this game out and see for myself if it was real. At first you are fustrated at the controls and 10 minutes later. You're hooked like a little kid on candy. You don't wanna stop playing. It becomes addicting. Trust me if you pick this one up you'll make sure it doesn't hit the ground.

Ok check this out

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This games seems like it would suck. But really, it's pretty fun. The graphics on this game are amazing! It's really fun online. If you are thinking about getting the game rent it first and see how you like it. This game should be checked out by everyone atlest.

This game will change your view of PONG as a game forever !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Graphics :
They get the job done, they aren't as impressive as I was expecting, everything seems to have a bit of a blur effect on it that makes the textures seem less sharp than they actually are. Everything is in fairly detailed 3D though, ranging from the players, the judge, the audience. all pretty solid, but nothing too impressive. The animations are extremely well done, nothing looks jerky, everything's pretty fluid, and the nice touches, like rippling clothes, are really well done.

Sound :
43 song soundtrack, mostly techno, mostly coming into play as the matches drag on. Once you hit about 15 hits in the rally a song starts playing in the background and gets louder as the match goes on(or the ambient sound goes down, either way, the music becomes more noticeable as the match wears on), helps make it seem more dramatic/intense. Otherwise, the sounds pretty standard, audience cheers, boos, pings, pongs, and the occasional taunt in your players native tongue.(although they will speak English sometimes too)

Gameplay :
While you may think it's just pong, it isn't, at all. There's four different shots, top spin, backspin, left spin, and right spin, all of which create a little glow around the ball, which you have about a third of a second to see and each shot has a counter shot(thus why you can see the color, to counter). You can pick your shot type with the right thumbstick, and try and aim your shot with the left(left also moves your character). Depending on how long you hold the shot type, the harder you'll hit the ball(hardest is not always best) When a particularly impressive shot or a focus shot is made(when you make a good shot you get focus, much like bullet time, allowing you to start hitting harder) the game will change the camera to show a close up of the shot in slow mo, really adding to a dramatic effect that works pretty well. Over time you'll accumulate or even lose "focus" which can be used in two ways. 1) Focus shots. By holding the right bumper when you hit a shot you hit the ball harder for that hit, you'll lose some focus, but it's a good quick way to put more power behind the shot. Way 2) Let the focus accumulate, once a certain meter fills, you enter focus mode. During this time the focus meter will be constantly depleting, but as long as there's some focus there, every single shot you hit during that time will have a LOT more power behind it. If both players enter the third tier of focus mode at the same time, everything fades out except for the table and the players, which become brightly lit. When that happens, that's definitely the most intense and if you ask me, fun parts of the game. It all works pretty well, and comes out pretty entertaining in the end.

Live : This is one of those titles where the main focus is on live, as the single player offering is a bit on the weak end. With single player, all you've got is Exhibition and four tournaments. Online, it's you vs. the world.(And vastly more challenging than the AI) You're going to get slaughtered for a while online, but once you start to figure out how it all works, there's a lot of fun to be had getting these true battles of 100+ rally hits for each point.(my record as of this writing sits at 152) The games themselves are actually pretty quick even if it goes for 150 pings(that takes about a minute) Oftentimes people will stay silent when you're playing and let out some sort of exclamation at the end of each rally, it's intense enough that talking COULD break the concentration. Lag can be an issue, but the game has a few ways of compensating that caught me off guard when they came into play and nearly cost me a point.(The game makes sure the ball never stops moving, so if you don't get any info from the other player, the ball just bounces off some invisible wall back at you) Online you can play Ranked on unranked games, the ranking system uses the same method of CoD2 with the "Trueskill" method. Within ranked and unranked, there is exhibition, where people just play 1v1 matches.. The other is a "timed tournament" where you get 2-8 people to play Round Robin, and whoever has the most wins at the end wins.(I think the time limit by default is 8 minute matches. Overall, the live is extremely entertaining, I just see two minor flaws. The skill gap. I can go into an 8 player tournament and find 3 of them can barely return a serve. The next 3 I can beat but it's a good game, then the last 2 make me look like an idiot out there. Other flaws fall into character use with some just seeming to be useless in multiplayer.

Unlockables : 11 characters, you start with 4, each character has five costumes, which are just different colored shirts essentially. Each character plays a little differently, catering to certain playstyles. Jesper plays well to power hitters, Jurgen plays well for a technical get the guy running around trying to catch trick shots. Every player plays a bit differently.

Value : Compared to the usual 360 game price, you can't complain, but it is disappointing to not see much of a career mode offering, almost solely focusing on the live component, but as a 40 dollar game, it's easily the best of the bunch. If you're on the edge, rent it first, see if you like it, I see many people going "Table Tennis? As a game? LAME". Just try it, you might enjoy it. Hell, you might even want to buy it.

FUN FUN FUN~

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok so this game is fun! Hubby just bought this for our new 360 during a Best Buy black Friday sale. It ended up being great as other reviewers pointed out. Cool moves, nice motion, nice achievements to be unlocked. Totally recommend it when you want to play with your spouse, child or when company is over. It is great to see who can slap it back and forth the longest. RockStar games rocks!! No pun intended!

This game is amazingly fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I would have never thought a game based on table tennis would be exciting. Now I feel as though I am actually playing. This game is incredibly addictive and brings back a simpleness in games I haven't seen in a long long time. I have become unhappy with video games the past couple years. Some are just so intricate they forget about the fun factor. This game is as fun as it gets.

Love this game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry but I love this game. I am a huge fan of tennis console games, but there have been a lack of good ones lately. I had seen this game on the shelf over and over again, but never thought that a ping pong game would be any good.

Fortunately, a friend of mine got me this for xmas, and haven't been able to put it down since. It has a really great learning curve, there aren't too many fancy button combos to figure out, which is fun if you want friends to come over and just pick it up and play.

I just got a new hd tv and this game looks flawless. The characters have really cool personalities that come through the screen. Each one has a distinct style, and it looks like the developers spent time on the character modeling.

Was a bit disppointed that you aren't able to create you own character model, but i suppose they put those energies into refining how great the core players look.

There are neat additions like as the gameplay progresses, your character even starts to sweat, and their facial expressions change.

The venues are really campy and fun.

The tournament play can get a bit repetitive, but for overall fun, graphics, and easy to pick up and play with friends when they come over, I rated this a 5! And for the current price less than $30, I'd say this is one of the best buys out there!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Best ping pong game EVER!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I CAN DESCRIBE THIS GAME IN THREE WORDS "THIS GAME IS TIGHT". ME AND MY FRIENDS CAN PLAY THIS GAME FOR HOURS. WE HAVE SO MUCH FUN JUST WACKIN THE BALL AND TRYING TO SMASH ON EACH OTHER. THE MUSIC IS A DEFINATE BONUS TO THE GAME. THIS GAME IS GREAT FOR MULTIPLAYER GAMES WHEN A GROUP OF FRIENDS GET TOGETHER.

Great Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I mean, I love GOW and COD3, etc. but sometimes I enjoy playing this game too..it is a nice game for the 360

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son really likes to play table tennis so this was the perfect game for him...and of course, he loved it!

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