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Great sequel, but original still best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved Virtua Tennis, so I was a little disappointed at first of 2k2. Once I got into this game, however, I started to really enjoy it. Play is faster than the original, and you can do some wicked cool (nasty to your opponents) net play that you couldn't do before. The create-a-character mode is a nice option, and you have to work to build up your player through the training in the world tour mode, which I thought was neat. The world tour is also an excellent upgrade from the first and more challenging, but on the downside you can only play your created character and not one of the pros. It's nice to see the women were added as well. 2k2 doesn't get a 5 because it doesn't have the arcade friendly play of the original, but this game is still very addicting.

The sisters are in it...what more can I say?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best tennis game I have ever played...wait its the only tennis game i've played! Why? Because I don't like tennis but TENNIS 2K2 is SO GOOD it drew me in! This game has KILLER GRAPHICS, SMOOTH ANIMATION and LOTS OF REPLAY VALUE! If you own a Dreamcast (best system that never made it) then do yourself a favor and get this, its THAT GOOD. Its easy to pick up and play and is fun with friends...get it now!

Great Game!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, there's a dissappointment only in the fact that you can't change shoes once a match have started. I play tennis myself and playing this game have somehow teached me some good movements. I would have liked other choices in Men, Agassi, Sampras....they've been for years champions all around the world and they should be in this game.

Anna Kournikova?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Why should Anna Kournikova be on this game? She can't manage to win a real tournament so it wouldn't be right to have her win a fake one. Too bad Graf or Hingis isn't here though...maybe in place of Stevenson. And the other reviewer was correct, the men aren't very good choices. I enjoy Cedric Pioline, but unless you are a die-hard tennis fan (of French) you probably have no idea who he is (although he made both the Wimbledon and US Open finals in his career).

2K2 PLEASURE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, this is the best tennis game out there. The graphics are so realistic along with the players. The only thing I didn't like about this game was the fact that if you fail to win the last match, you've got to literally go through & rest for 51 weeks to get back to the match on the calendar. I thought that maybe there could have been a way to have done this. Other than that, I thought the game was great!

great game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: September 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this is a great game where is anna kornikova ! whith great women players but not so good men

Finally seqil of Virtua Tennis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot better than virtua tennis you can be men or women and create a player

BETTER THAN THE FIRST 2K1 TENNIS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

More players more fun,more action lots of enjoyment.

UH... MAY... ZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Dreamcast for "lite" gaming, figuring it wouldn't distract me too much from "real" gaming on the PC. :-) However, now that I have Tony Hawk 2, Soul Calibur, and Tennis 2k2, I find myself spending less time on the PC. Actually, now that I have Tennis 2k2, I think Mr. Hawk and the sword swingers will be on vacation for a while.

The rest of the reviews here give a good sense of the details, so I won't dwell on those. I will say that I'm not a tennis player, I never played Virtua Tennis, I don't care if Agassi is included in the game or not, and I wasn't particularly interested in a tennis simulation. Seriously, people, do you train for tennis in real life by hitting robots and tanks (as you do in Tennis 2K2's training mini-games)? Come on...

Anyway, all that said, this game astounds. The gameplay is flat out amazing. You'll find yourself playing "just one... more... match" until your thumbs lock up. The graphics are terrific: motion capture is freakishly realistic, and the motion blur during replays adds a nice "hey, just like TV!" touch.

It's a polished piece of work that truly shows off the Dreamcast's capabilities. It also shows what a HUGE CRYING SHAME it is that the Dreamcast didn't fare better. More games like this could have kept it afloat longer.

Huge Improvement over Virtua Tennis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Virtua Tennis is so mcuh fun until you realize that it has only 2-3 good players and the graphics are smudgy. Tennis 2K2 takes the game engine of Virtua Tennis and kept the good parts and changed the parts that were bad. This game has not only 8 men but also has 8 women players. The players iclude Patrick Rafter, Tevgeny Kafelnikov, Tommy Haas, Venus WIlliams, Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Monica Seles.

The gameplay is amazing. There are 3 buttons you use. One is for a lob shot, one is for a smash shot and the other is just a regular old shot. Just like in Virtua Tennis you really only need to use two buttons (the joystick and the A button).

The graphics are way better than 2000's Virtua Tennis and are even better than most of the other 2K2 games. Each player resembles it's real-life counterpart very well and any tennis fan can pcik them out. The graphcis are so realistic that their clothes and shoes look exactly liek what they do in real-life. The courts are also more realistic and their are more than a dozen more different courts than in Cvirtua Tennis.

There are 3 modes: World Tour, Exhibition and Tournament. In World Tour you pick a player and participate in a variety of singles and doubles matches as well as many fun bonus games like in Virtua Tennis. You earn money when you win or do good in the bonuses to use to buy more equipment or courts. In Exhibition you just pick two players and serve away in just one match. In tournament mode you pick one player and face off against the rest of the men or women and player in a series of games until you either win the championship or lose.

Some mroe cool things are that you can actually understand the PA announcer and when you hit a ball into the net the ball boys run out and retreive the balls unlike in Virtua Tennis. Also when you hit a ball out of the court near the wall the people standing there will avoid the balls by moving out of the way instead of standing like statues.

Also the players are evry detailed. Monica Seles grunts when she hits the ball and after you win your player has a big smile and afetr you lose they look very mad and disappointedand are ready to throw their rackets.

The only things missing are some of the players like Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Martina Hingis and Jennifer Capriti.

Gameplay: 5/5
Graphics 5/5
Controls: 4/5
Overall: 5/5

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