Once you have created your player, you will be ready to start whacking some tennis balls around. There are many licensed options alongside generic ones, which always adds a good touch of realism to a sports game.
Of course, you can also unlock new clothing and equipment to buy as you progress through your career. Some look very similar, but there is enough variety to make it worth having a look through. In a nice touch, you can also choose signature traits for your avatar from the world’s greats, such as serve styles and receive stances. There are a fair few preset choices from facial features to build type for you to select. However, you can alter the difficulty of the game from the pause menu at any time.Ĭreating your own player to take on the career mode is realised with a fairly basic, but effective design menu. You can choose from several options which determine how close to the real thing your career will feel, in terms of match length and the ability to replay events. Overall, this combination results in a stunted, off-pace experience.Īny tennis game worth its salt is built around a solid career mode and Tennis World Tour 2 – Complete Edition offers a mixed experience at best. Even when playing on the same difficulty across several matches, my experience was wildly inconsistent. It was a rare pleasure to get a decent rally going.
However, seemingly more so in exhibition matches, they could barely string two shots together before hitting the ball out of bounds. Even on the normal difficulty, your opponents are no pushovers. To make matters worse, in doubles you’ll see your partner make these shots with seemingly inhumanly quick reactions that you will never manage to match. This is because you need to sprint right up to the ball to return it your player won’t reach out to try and take the shot even when close by. However, if you go the wrong way, even for a split second, you’ve had it. It’s difficult, borderline impossible, to figure out how to read your opponent so you stand a chance of reaching their return shots to get a rally going. In matches it soon becomes clear that if you want your first serve to land legally, you’re best not to try to put any direction on it at all, because it’ll nearly always end up being a fault. It’s hit and miss, but the inconsistent nature is highlighted when you are trying to nail the target boxes at the Tennis School. However, directing the ball feels a little out of your control at times, whilst at others it’ll land exactly where you planned. Returning shots is pretty straightforward, as is serving. The better this is, the more likely that you’ll place the ball where you want it to go. Controls are the bedrock of a game such as this, and in Tennis World Tour 2 – Complete Edition it’s all about timing.
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