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GOOD BUT NOT THE BEST TENNIS VIDEO GAME OUT THERE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS MORE FOR THE CASUAL TENNIS FAN THATS WHY YOU HAVE SO MANY REVIEWS OF PEOPLE SAYING I DONT PLAY OR WATCH TENNIS BUT I LIKE TOPSPIN.SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 IS MORE FOR THE TENNIS HARDCORE ELITE.TOPSPIN IS TOO EASY FOR HARDCORE TENNIS FANS AS MYSELF.I CAN BEAT CHANG ON HARD LEVEL 6-0,6-0,6-0 IN FACT I CAN BEAT ANY PLAYER ON HARD LEVEL WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE POINT.TOPSPIN DOESNT REQUIRE YOU TO BE RIGHT IN POSITION TO HIT A BALL OR VOLLEY LIKE SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 DOES.ALSO TOPSPIN PLAYERS TELL YOU WHERE THEY ARE GOING TO SERVE BY WHERE THEY ARE STANDING ON THE SERVICE LINE.IF THEY ARE STANDING OUT WIDE THEY ARE GOING TO SERVE OUT WIDE,IF THEY ARE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE THEY ARE GOING TO SERVE DOWN THE LINE.SO THIS MAKES THE GAME TOO EASY.THE GRAPHICS ARE GREAT SO IS THE GAME PLAY BUT ITS MORE ARCADE LIKE THAN REALISTIC TENNIS.IF YOU ARE A HARDCORE TENNIS FAN GET SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 IF YOU ARE A CASUAL TENNIS FAN THEN GET THIS.ALSO SUPER NINTENDO HAS A GREAT TENNIS GAME CALLED SUPER TENNIS.IT MAY NOT BE UP THERE WITH GRAPHICS LIKE TOPSPIN BUT THE GAMEPLAY IS GREAT AND NEVER GETS TIRING.SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 IS MORE OF A CHALLENGE FOR TENNIS FANS.

Stop the complaining, gamers.

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

Im going to try to be as clear as I can, while being completely unproffesional about it; Don't listen to the whiny haters. Those who claim the system is "frustrating, annoying, difficult" and such simply don't know how to play the game or are defficient at games in general. This game IS better than Virtual Tennis. It's more addictive, more fun, fuller, deeper richer, AND with a carreer and online mode that is plain awsome.

If you like a challenge, like pretty visuals, and just enjoy sport games in general, you'll appreatiate all the aspects of this game. With deccent practice one can perform all the super tacticle moves such as the risk shots as smoothly as the A.I in the game, and even if perhaps the difficulty is unstable, it really won't matter once you commit just a few hours into learning the stradegies of the game, and tennis in general.

THIS GAME IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING IN THE WORLD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible!!! The game doesn't give you any idea of where the ball is going which results in:
Having no idea where serves are going to go.
Never knowing whether or not the ball will be out.
Having no idea where to go when the player lobs it.

This was the most frustrating, un-fun videogame I have ever played in my life. STAY AWAY FROM IT COMPLETELY!!!!!!!!

Best tennis game out there, but still needs work

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is definetely the best tennis game I've ever played:

The pros:
1. The graphics are awesome, whether you are in first person zoom view, far TV view or in the replays.
2. The movement and motion of the players is realistic and convincing for the shots they attempt (slices, smash, dropshots, etc)
3. Crowd reactions are realistic and sound real.
4. You can design your own player with great detail in the facial features, body shape, playing style and clothing.
5. Many real pro tournaments are actually used (Pacific Life Open, Nasdaq-100 Open)
6. Real name brands appear in the backgrounds as sponsors (Pepsi, Mastercard, Kroger, Microsoft, etc). Also clothing and equipment sponsors are real companies (Prince, Wilson, Adidas, Reebok, etc)
7. The sound effects for the ball and running on different surfaces is very realistic.

The Cons:
1. There should be more involvement with the ball boys and linesmen. They never move.
2. There should be questionable line calls where you can challenge the chair umpire.
3. There should be more variety in gameplay between the different surfaces. Clay should play slower and grass faster.
4. The players grunts should be more distinct and realistic. The sound on that is rather weak.
5. They should have the real Grand Slam tournaments represented like the Australian Open and The US Open instead of the fictional Melbourne Open and Americas Championships (What the hell is that?)
6. You should be able to see a replay more than just once and they should show the whole rally and not just part of it.
7. There should be more current top ten players in the roster for both men and women. Where are Federer, Nadal, Roddick, Agassi, Safin, Davenport, Sharapova, Venus, Serena, Clijsters, Henin-Hardenne, etc)? Why do we still have Sampras and Kournikova? Aren't they retired?

Pretty Much A Superb Tennis Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is possibly the best tennis game I have ever played. I recommend it to anyone remotely interested in Tennis. There may not be the latest tennis champions and all but I really like the work done of some of the top line players like Sampras,Hewitt,etc. Of course you have the ladies too. There is fatigue in this game and it is not exaggerated by any length of imagination except maybe two small things that are absent.

A)the ball boys dont move
B)no commentary

Despite the absence of these two the game pretty much rocks.
There is Career mode and there is practise. Graphics are neat and precise.The cloud volume could be a little less irritating.

I don't play tennis but enjoy watching it.The wimbeldon is going on right now. I'd rather play TOP SPIN with my cousins than actually bother to watch.Yes,I am a lazy head.
Anyhow,I'll stop talking now.

Buy it for the love of Tennis.
Cheers and enjoy.

Great Tennis Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Top Spin is the only tennis game I have played for Xbox, but it is certainly one of the best. I'll break down the goods and the bads for you:
GOOD
The graphics are THE BEST I have ever seen.
The sound effects are perfect . . . you can here the players groaning and the crowd cheering.
The game contains most of the world's elite tennis players but NO ANDRE AGASSI.
You can play in either smaller tournaments or Grand Slams all across the Globe.
The different types of courts: clay, grass, composite. You can feel the differences in the playing surfaces like you couldn't believe.
You can choose from any type of sponser you want, who will give you free gear the better you get.
You get to train what parts of your game that you feel need improvement.
The controls are easy to learn and easy to use.
You can choose what type of swing you want to put on the ball(lob, slice, normal, top spin, risk shot, or drop shot)
Long career mode in which you create your own player

BAD
You cannot save the game in the middle of tournaments, which means you either have to play all the way through or for-feit.
There is not that much of a difference between the #2 player in the world and the #22 player in the world difficulty wise. They should have made the higher ranked players harder to beat.
Xbox Live was Big Disappointment.

With the goods easily outranking the bads, I strongly suggest you buy this game. Its fun to play and provides great entertainment.

4, because of on-line play or human vs. human play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Good day tennis fans!
I think this game has the look and feel of real modern day tennis. I was happy to play it, I felt the awe of being in the court and hitting topspin and slice shots with perfect form (no stretching before-hand! *smile*). In this game you can enjoy the fantasy of being in great matches and having great points (whether you are a tennis player or not).

1st, my experience: I've been playing this game for about 3 months, have created about 20 characters of my own (including famous ones like John McEnroe, Steffi Graf, Yonnick Noah, Agassi, Federer, Serena Williams, Stefan Edberg, Becker, Borg, etc...). I currently have all 14 star/3 skill players (I'm close to having 4 skill players, it just takes some time to cultivate 20+ players, so there's some time required to get there...). And I understand that to have a 15 star player, you must buy both of the 1,000,000 [$coin] Xbox clothes (shirt and pants), and your player will be reset (with different skills) and you will boot-back-up with a 15 star player. Woo-Hoooo! That's what a little bird told me :)
I've won a couple grand slams, and I've pretty well mastered the playing style in the CAREER mode of the game. I can usually win 3-0, 3-0 in every match I encounter. (sometimes 3-1, sometimes 4-2). 1 month ago, I would only be barely winning grand slams, or losing in the quarterfinals.
... Onward with the review......

The game has flaws, of course (don't all computer games which try to simulate some real thing?). When playing against Other HUMAN players (you know, real people) the game is fantastic! You can't have any real complaints, because each person has to use his/her skills to compete in the same arena, same rules.

Where the game shows it's flaws, is ... When playing against the computer (I'm talking about Exhibition mode, here, but the computer un-fairness idea counts for Career mode as well). It is the typical game where the level of difficulty you select (EASY, NORMAL, HARD) doesn't seem to fairly represent a real match. On NORMAL, for example, It's too easy for me now. It's boringly easy to play anyone (exCEPT a human player). But on HARD it is TOO HARD! It's as if the opponent is invincible. It seems that only his/her power and forcefullness are increased. I would like to see a game which increases NOT the POWER and FORCEFULLNESS in HARD mode, but increases the Creativeness of play, and the adaptiveness of play. Because it shouldn't be the case that a crappy 2 star player can blast a 14 star player, just because you chose the HARD setting. Isn't that correct?
For example: I would like to play in the NORMAL difficulty, but I would like to have intelligent, creative, adaptive, moody opponents who show more variety than the opponents in Top Spin, currently. The way it is, the play is un-realistic after a few months of playing.

Specific critiques (of the computer opponents). Once again, when playing REAL HUMAN PLAYERS, I don't have any complaints. Then the random play of a real person dictates the play, and that is fantastic.

Comptuter opponent critiques:
(1) Serve wide.
I can serve wide with slice that shoots the ball outside (or topspin, depending on which side I'm serving from), and come into the net and volley to the opposite line for a winner EVERY TIME! Once in a blue moon the returner tries to hit down the line, and foil my plans. But I've got about a 96% rate of winning that way (against ANY player at ANY difficulty). This is a major flaw. The computer player should "mix it up" more, or show some variety or adaptiveness.
(2) Opponents serve.
I've figured this out. If the opponent stands wide, he is going to serve wide. If the opponent stands by the middle line, he is going to serve down the middle line or to the center of the box. This never fails! Every time! This COMPLETELY takes away from the element of surprise when trying to return serve. It's COMPLETELY ubn-realistic. I play tennis at a high level, and one of the most powerful things about a serve is NOT KNOWING WHERE IT'S GOING TO ARRIVE.
The only time that is ~seems~ like the opponent is standing by the center line, and serves wide -- the opponent hits the ball out! Every time! So, the situation exists -- it's just that the opponent will NEVER land a serve that way! So you don't have to ever worry about second-guessing your stance.

If PAM (Power And Magic) wants to email me and ask me what I'd do to alleviate this problem, please do so:
mrjeffkraus@yahoo.com
I'd be happy to work with them, creating a fantastically real tennis game with the appropriate options and programming worthy of the greatest tennnis game ever! Really. Just write to me.
I think about these things like I have 'a gift', it's really my calling (game creation is in my blood). Write me. I know I sound arrogant, but it's only because I know that my ideas are perfect. This is the one thing that I know about very well, because I really enjoy seeing things work fantastically!
And what's more fun than a fantastic game!

The game is good.
With my added Real LEGENDS (McEnroe, Edberg, etc...) I've created a nice pool of players to choose from.

Just yesterday my brother-in-law and I played as McEnroe (young with the big hair and red sweatband) and Goran Ivanisevic (BIG serve) and kicked the crap out of Yonnick Noah and Stefan Edberg!
Then we got toasted (fried!!) by Sampras and Agassi!
Man, we need to get our revenge on those 2 the next time.
:-D

3 out of the 4 players I just mentioned, were created by myself.
I'd given them the appropriate skills according to reality (when they were at the top of their game), and facial features, height/weight, etc... blah blah blah, you know what I mean if you have the game...

All you modern day ONLY tennis fans will shoot me for saying this:
I'm going to create Rod Laver in a couple days.
Kudos!
I'm outta here,
-Jeff

don't waste time or money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: January 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

yet another game in an ever growing list that bypasses the creation of challenging computer ai and instead relies on cheating a player to increase it's difficulty. the makers of this game should have taken their cue from the sega sports line of tennis games and seen why those games are so successful. i have sega's tennis game for playstation 2 and it offers fun and challenging gameplay without feeling like you're getting cheated on half the points.

top spin may well be fun as a multiplayer game but as a single player game it offers nothing but boredom and frustration. in career mode you spend the money you earn to build your character's various attributes. in the lower level tournaments your computer opponent barely even bothers hitting the ball back at you which is completely boring considering you have to beat three opponents by two sets that are played to three games. i've built several characters with varying strengths and it seems to make no difference where you put your skill points when you get to the grand slam tournaments. you need to win a grand slam to unlock the final career status and finish building your character. this is where the game really fails. you can have the computer completely outmatched and still stand no chance of winning because it continually pulls out impossible shot after impossible shot and at the same time makes your character inexplicably whiff at balls that just go floating by. computer risk shots are dead on whenever it needs a point and not close when it doesn't. when the computer is on the run on a point that it needs to win your shots start losing power for some reason and the computer eventually catches up and hammers a ball by you. on one point the computer dives for a ball well beyond the baseline and hits a lob perfectly placed in the far corner that you can't get close to and on the next it meekly taps the ball out of bounds when you would have no chance of getting to it. i could go on but i'm through wasting my time on this game, heed my advise and don't waste yours.

Incredibly realistic!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just recently acquired an XBOX system over the Holidays and bundled with the package were two games on one disc..NCAA Football 2005 and Top Spin. Prior to getting this XBOX, I had a PS1 for years and played a few games on my brother's PS2 so that was the extent of my gaming experience, but when I popped in the free game disc included with the XBOX holiday bundle..charged it up, and selected Top Spin, I was greeted by incredibly realistic graphics and an absolutely addictive and easily learned video game! Top Spin is a fantastic Tennis game and you will actually feel like you are engaged in a match with some of the greatest players of the game..like Michael Chang, Pete Sampras..etc. The mannerisms and characteristics of the players are also incorporated in the program..it's unreal..I understand this game is only available on XBOX and it's the best tennis simulation out there! I had so much fun playing this game that it is still my favorite, even after buying several more XBOX games...You can choose how you want to hit the ball..solid, slice, top spin or lob..so there is a certain element of strategy involved..you can choose to play the computer or another player and you can even set up custom tournaments..you can play on a "Grand Slam" stage or even the local playground..the realism of the surroundings is amazing..you can even slide on clay and hear the sound effects as well..you can see the dust kick up from your ball and also watch replays of all your great rallys at all kinds of different angles..to the developers of this game..my hats off to you!! This game is so much fun!! For all you XBOX owners out there this is a must have for your collection!

Great sports game; Incredible tennis game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best tennis game of all time. Graphics: No doubt, the best tennis has ever looked. Gameplay: Great, fast-paced fun. You can spend 14 stars on various attributes. Move through the ranks as amateur, minor pro, pro, and star. To sum it all up, if you play tennis or not, you will have lots of fun with this game.

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