

Virtua Tennis 4 has 11 ATP players, 7 WTA players, 4 legends and 2 bosses, leading to a grand total of 24 players that are playable.

Designed to encourage replay value and with an element of off-court fame, each decision affects a player’s career path meaning no two careers will ever be the same.
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Fun, but a little irritating all the same.Īs I said, though, the proven Virtua Tennis formula is alive and well in this game, and you'll still have a blast competing in Arcade mode, plowing through a series of cool party games (bowling makes a triumphant return) and challenging other players via Ad Hoc and online, so more often than not, there's an opponent waiting to hit the court. It's a novel concept, but the game limits not only where you can go, but also the tournaments you can enter.
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switches things to an overhead perspective, ala Pong, but feels too weird to enjoy.įinally, there's World Tour mode, which is this bizarre board game of sorts, where you create a tennis pro (you can import your face using Vita's camera) and then travel the globe, competing in tournaments, meeting fans and taking breaks to rest even virtual athletes need to chill every once and a while. VT Cam lets players take pictures with in-game tennis stars, and is fairly useless. The final two Apps simply don't measure up. Sega also deserves praise for VR Match, where gamers see things in first person while using the gyroscope to look around. I enjoyed Rock the Boat, which challenges players to tilt Vita to manipulate a pirate ship decorated with targets while volleying to break them within a time limit. On top of that, the game includes four VT Apps, mini games designed to take advantage of the machine's abilities. Eventually, I returned to the tried and true button controls. More often than not, I'd move in the proper direction, only to miss the ball anyway. Not a bad idea in theory, but in practice, it's much too erratic and awkward.

It begins with touch screen controls, where you're able to drag a finger along Vita's five-inch OLED to move your chosen player (be it Federer, Nadal or Sharapova, among others) and then tap to make him or her hit the ball. That said, Sega deserves some credit for trying to increase the game's appeal, though some additions are better than others. Thankfully, the publisher did just that with Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition, which includes the content from the console version, but adds some new features designed specifically for the handheld. Just provide a similar arcade experience and I'm good to go. Sega didn't have to twist my arm when it announced plans to port Virtua Tennis 4 to Sony's PlayStation Vita, largely because I had so much fun with the series on PSP.
