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It's a Smash!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Basically, if you're looking for a great party game, tennis game or something that is easy to pick up and play, you'll love VT3. It's controls are highly intuitive making it easy for casual and even non gamers to have fun with it. However, don't let that fool you as it is difficult to master.
The graphics are quite good; in terms of player models (excellent) and stadiums.
On the downside: this game game tends to lock up and freeze occasionally. Occasionally, when you enter a game the players are invisible and all you see is the rackets. Lastly, although the graphics are good overall, you get the feeling that they could have done better crowd animations. Games like NBA 2K7 are excellent in that regard. However, those cons are minor and you'll soon forget them once you start seriously playing this game.

There is a nice spread of achievement points spread out throughout the game. It should not be difficult for you to obtain them. I ranked a male and female custom player at #1 in under one week!

Overall, if you like pick up and play games you'll like this one

Best tennis game so far

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely the best tennis game so far for the 360. The action is great, and so are the graphics. You have Roger, Andy, and Maria which are most of my favs. But to make this the ultimate, it would be nice to have some of the legends in there too. Otherwise, this game is good enough for me to get rid of my others. It is great to sit down, relax, and play tennis with Maria Sharapova...

Virtua Tennis rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So fun. Except I can't seem to get the number one ranking no matter how many times I beat Federer or win all the grand slam tournaments. And to add insult to injury my custom player keeps getting injured for no apparent reason! Other than that a fun and addictive game. Especially when you play doubles with Sharpova!!

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game! Even the training sessions are fun. Me and my partners love this game!

Virtua Tennis 3

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Game was purchased as a birthday present for a coworker. He reports the game is great. Career mode is challenging. Graphics and animation are very good. Great game overall!

Great Tennis Game !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have an Xbox 360 and this game was a treat on this console. Absolutely amazing graphics and game-play.

Easily the best tennis game ever made.I have played Top Spin which is also awesome but this one is right up with the best as well.

Go for it. You will love it !

Virtua Tennis 3 Best Xbox 360 Tennis Experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This tennis game is way better than top spin. The controls are more inuitive. You are always playing from your players perspective. Shots are easier to control. The customize your own player portion is easier and more fun also.[ASIN:B000IONGWC Virtua Tennis 3]

Best Multiplayer Tennis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Best Tennis game for online play, with very fast technical playing and doubles feature.

V3T not nearly as good as Top Spin

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't understand how an old game like Top Spin 1 for the normal xbox could be better in a lot of ways than this, but it is.
My mayor concern are the sound and the graphics of the game, they are very very poor.
The play of the game is very boring in easy mode but if you change it you would get beat by any decent player
I have only played mine for 2 days and i'm already looking to sell it and buying top spin 2

Exactly what was promised...a moderately next gen update to Virtua Tennis

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My dilemma prior to getting this was that I had great memories of Virtua Tennis and Tennis 2k2 on my Dreamcast, and none of the versions since had delivered the goods. Sega Tennis on my xbox was alright but in no way an improvement over the DC originals.
The reason this was a problem for me is due to the fact that I purchased Top Spin for the 360 a short while ago, and was profoundly disappointed with it. I can understand how people that look for timing based moves on every aspect of gameplay and who enjoy a training system that can only be described as punishing would prefer that one, but honestly it just felt like its attempts to make the glorified pong of virtua tennis "realistic" fell flat and turned gameplay into a stressful chore.

VT3 excels in recapturing most of my conditions for success, from an enjoyable career mode (no switching to the other side of the court for single player! hooray!) to the always entertaining zombies-with-tennis-rackets graphics. The latter is a feature in my book, as I find the prospect of being defeated by the undead much more of an incentive to play hard than any point system or ranking could ever manage.
Some problems would be the tendency of rallies to turn into endurance matches and for some shots to be significantly more difficult to employ usefully (I'm looking at you, lob), but that has a way of becoming less of an issue as you grasp the subtleties of the gameplay. It's what I liked about the original: understanding the system added depth, but messing around and relying on your hand eye coordinaiton would get you pretty far as well.

So you get the core gameplay, which works for the most part, and updated uncanny valley graphics, and xbox live competition. It's exactly what I was looking for.

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