“The court options change the gameplay drastically.”Īnimation wise the game deserves some credit! Vastly improving from the previous version and I just love how the facial expressions change when hitting the ball hard into the opponent’s side. You can also choose to play during the night time or during the day to add immersion of overseas’ matches. They all have a change on gameplay and are not only a nice esthetic change. Whether it is fatigue weighing in on your stamina during hot climate or the modified bounciness of the ball on gravel and hard soil.
It’s called World Tour for a reason and with the addition of different types of soil and weather, the game and locations all have multiple parameters that impact the gameplay. The shadows cast on the ground are pulled off nicely and the colors are authentic! From far away it looks like actual tennis footage from TV. Most of the time you’ll be seeing the downwards camera angle from above and this one looks really crisp. Not that the game looks bad, I was surprised by how good it looked most of the time! When the camera angles change to the action in replays there is a good attempt at a dynamic shallow depth of field but somehow it looks really clunky in some replays instead of making it look nice as intended. The characters look great but a few more shoes, outfits and cap styles would’ve been nice to spice things up a little esthetically. As a Belgian, I had to side with Goffin for the majority of my matches.Īlthough the game offers a form of progression in stats and cards you can use to your advantage I feel like there was a missed opportunity to give your players a bit more customization options. Federer, Nadal, and Medvedev are present as well as one of my favorites: Kvitova. Some legends are paid DLC or pre-order bonuses while others are just missing from the game somehow. Also note that there are almost double the number of male players in a sport that is quite gender-balanced. The game offers a wide variety of star players but due to some licensing problems, you’ll see some great names missing in the roster.
Years later it’s Tennis World Tour that is making a name for itself and having a great game on the go is a real treat. The first real good tennis game used to be Top Spin, I remember being blown away in a store seeing the graphical bump on the newly released Xbox 360 demo pods. Tennis games however are enjoyable whenever you want and now with the Switch’s handheld mode, wherever you want. Tennis, it’s that game you watch live in the middle of the night on a European broadcast.
The second opus of Big Ant’s tennis game is here and while it greatly improves in certain fields it still lacks some key elements to become “The Ace”.
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