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All perfectly silly, but charming in their own sweet way and much like any throwaway modes, you'll probably not get around to playing them much. Blockbuster is, as the name suggests, a game all about busting blocks that form in a wall in front of you, and measuring your strokes to target certain blocks gives it decent legs Fruit Dash involves legging it around the court picking up giant fruit while avoiding a red ball being fired in front of you Blocker tasks you with protecting the blocks behind you from the ball firing machines and Balloon Smash has you trying to burst balloons of matching colours before the timer runs out. Next time though, eh SEGA?įor a bit of light relief, a further four Ballgames are available in single-player mode, all of which operate on a high-score-chasing basis and provide mildly interesting diversions for a few goes. It's disappointing that there still isn't the option to go for matches lasting more than one set, but we can live with that.
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If you're so inclined, matches can be further tinkered to increase the number of games in the match to six, including tense tiebreak scenarios. Five skill levels ought to take into account everyone from the novice to those sporting thumb calluses and frazzled thousand-yard stares.
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Unless, of course, you've unlocked King.Īs ever, you're offered a full complement of single-player modes, including the instant action/random pairings of the Quick Match, the custom Exhibition mode, and the five-round Tournament challenge. But don't let the lack of changes put you off in a fat-free game like this you'll be overjoyed at the ability to take it on the road with you. The only significant changes on offer come in the form of an updated roster of 14 pros, comprising the likes of World number one Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt, Andy Roddick, Tim Henman, Maria Sharapova, Lindsay Davenport and Venus Williams. Thankfully, UK conversion team Sumo Digital has remained utterly faithful to the inspired Virtua Tennis 2 (frustratingly something we can't play in renovated form on current home console formats we particularly yearn for online play) - in gameplay terms at least. You'll always reflect that it was your tactics - your positioning and timing of strokes in particular - or the nuances of your player's abilities that won or lost you the match, not the game itself, and that's precisely the thing that makes it so damned addictive.
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And because you always feel responsible for your successes and failures, it's one of the few games where you're happy to accept defeat with good grace. Nailing it down is easy: you nearly always feel fully in control, and because of this the game never feels unfair. Underpinning the whole experience is the way that the control system is directly allied to the graceful elegance of an animation system that still feels ahead of its time even now. In the context of handheld gaming that's a truly priceless commodity, and one that you begin to appreciate more and more the longer you spend in the company of SEGA's little gem.
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By virtue of an array of modes that ought to satisfy most of your whims, there's barely an excuse not to fire up the PSP and have a quick go. What's more, Virtua Tennis is one of a select few sport games that is almost as much fun in single-player mode as it is in the heart-stopping multiplayer mode.
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The reason we're consistently compelled to gush about Hitmaker's classic time and again is quite simple: the game's purity of design, which makes it incredibly easy to pick up and play for a while, but also offers depths that keeps even the most hardened gaming veteran coming back for more. We'll still be playing it long after arthritis and senility have had their wicked way. But like any true sporting classic, there's literally an infinite amount of fun to be had with Virtua Tennis. You'd perhaps reason that we should have tired of the simple pick up and play gameplay after five long years slugging out the fuzzy yellow ball across Clay, Grass and Carpet. A tennis game might not sound like the most exciting game to rush out and buy for your shiny new Sony PSP, but when you're dealing with one of the most enduringly playable games of all time we're prepared to make allowances.