Thanks for the red dot Ciao. I look forward to reading peoples reviews and I hope you enjoy mine. Ma...
Thanks for the red dot Ciao. I look forward to reading peoples reviews and I hope you enjoy mine. Matt
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The game appears so innocent but you are unaware that it is about to change your life for the next few months. The menu appears and you are faced with the choice of four options. This is a great game and I continue to play it for large amounts of time, nearly every day.
Arcade, Exhibition, World Circuit and Options. If you've never played the game before in the arcades then your safest bet is to go to the Arcade mode immediately. If you do so you get the choice of 8 players who are Tim Henman, Thomas Johansson, Carlos Moya, Pioline, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Jim Courier Tommy Haas, and Mark Philippoussis. A fine selection to say the least but there are more to come but I'll come to that later. So, you've picked your player and now your off. You start in Australia (There are 5 levels in all. Australia, France, USA outdoor, England and USA indoor.) and as soon as you serve the ball using the power bar you'll be hooked, no questions asked. At first you'll play basic shots that go forward and then you'll discover that you can angle your shots by holding the shot button (A) and the direction you want the ball to travel.
The longer you hold the direction the higher the angle will be. Very easy. After you've won that round you'll be transported to France where the commentary is in French, a fine addition. This is where you'll lose first. You need to master the controls even further which is the beauty of this game. To put it simply, it's easy to pick up yet hard to master. And even when you have mastered the great control system you'll be downright out-done by the amazingly good artificial intelligence. The AI is to put it simply, extraordinary.
On other levels the computer uses amazing tactical gameplay to summon you into the corner and smash you out leaving you standing there helpless with the fact that you lost to a piece of plastic and metal. So now you have heard about Arcade mode, what goes on in Exhibition mode? This is basically where you play by your own rules. You can select how many games to play, how difficult the CPU will be and if there is to be Deuce or not. You get to select your character and the computers character and you also get to select your stage. But why just play against the computer? You can play against up to 3 mates which is 4 in total in a doubles frenzy where you'll all be shouting abuse at each other like you were at war. The multi player is quite frankly, one of the finest ever made. It is as perfectly crafted as the 1 player mode if not more so and you can have some great battles and you may even get obsessed with it, betting real money for the match. This is multi player gaming as it should be. If there is one small shortcoming of the multi player it is that there is no tournaments to take part in that would make it even better.
In all, this is a truly great game that has totally revolutionised the tennis world not just tennis computer games. Well done to all at Sega for bringing us this game.
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