Tennis World Tour is out today, but it’s not finished. Proving yet again that the PlayStation 4’s doomed when it comes to simulations of one of the planet’s most popular sports, developer Breakpoint has just nonchalantly announced that online multiplayer’s been removed from the launch build of the game. Surprise everyone!
While the studio has obviously promised to patch the feature in, revealing this undeniably disappointing news on release day seems seriously shady to us. “Features are scheduled to roll out in two phases,” a spokesperson wrote on the title’s Facebook page. “The first will bring online quick matches and in the second phase we will implement a ranked online mode with global leaderboards.”
The company has apologised for the bait-and-switch, but says that it hopes “you will enjoy the local multiplayer or start your journey to the top in career mode in the meantime”. The firm’s also committed to various other improvements in the future, including a doubles mode, audio improvements, and “sliding animations on clay courts”.
In other words: it’s not really ready for primetime.
[source facebook.com]
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I give up.
@LaNooch1978 It did indeed.
We need dreamcast virtua tennis 1 remake
Why not just delay the game slightly in that case? Boggles the mind. Especially seeing as it's not releasing in some areas until June 12th (Australia)
It's ok, no likes multiplayer anyway... apparently.
Waiting for your review Sammy... but for what I've read the game is pretty bad.
This shouldn't be a full price game
@daveofduncan investors, financial projections and other gobbledigook like that.
When I looked on the PSN store this morning it had an average rating (from 9 people) of 1.5 stars
Guess I'll wait then. A damn shame.
The interesting thing will be if this is actually better or worse than AO Tennis which got a right kicking upon release.
Least there's a new Mario Tennis game coming, but where the heck is top spin?
It's not disapoointing at all, I don't care about multiplayer and neither does the majority of people who would play a game like this. It's not as if people were crowding to play Top Spin or VirtuaTennis in multiplayer, tennis ain't FIFA.
Don't get stuck in "Fortnite/PUBG mode" please, you didn't do that with God of War.
God of war isn't tennis 😂 they advertised it as having MP and backed out. Game should have been delayed, simple as that.
@Bonbonetti People don't care about multiplayer in sports games? Since when?
Anyway, irrespective of whether you care about multiplayer or not, they should have mentioned this before the game released.
Bought the game today and played a little bit it’s not bad. I’m not a big multi game player so that doesn’t bother me. Seems like it has a nice career mode and plenty to do. But all I have done is the training exercises.
Pathetic. One thing I hate about this generation of games is the complete lack of sports titles. I get that it costs money to make games but we only have one baseball series worth a sh*t and it's really just for hardcore fans of the sport like myself. No tennis (both this game and that AO game are awful and lack attention to detail), the only NFL game you can buy is from one of the most despicable companies - in any industry - on the planet, one NBA series worth a damn and like MLB that's also only geared towards hardcore fans, and NHL which again is EA. When I say I liked the 16 and 32 bit eras better than modern gaming, this is partly why. There was much more variety.
@Bread-Not-Toast
The morons at 2K cancelled the Top Spin series back around 2011/2012. What's majorly disappointing about this game being trash, however, is that the project was headed up by former Top Spin developers. Sure they didn't have a huge budget there are some serious blunders here. No multiplayer is the huge one but John McEnroe being right handed shows a complete lack of attention for detail. This also looks like a $30 game that they're charging $60 for. I believe it also lacks licenses so while you probably get venues where they should be you don't have the Wimbledon or U.S. Open tapestry. It's just a bad look. And I really shouldn't be this butthurt about it but tennis is one of my favorite sports and that we can't get even a halfway decent, fully licensed tennis game on the PS4 is ridiculous. But publishers have time to put out garbage games in plenty of other genres that don't sell for crap. Top Spin actually had a market, and they kill the series anyway.
No review for this game yet?
It came out yesterday and I couldnt find anything on the internet.
That's weird
@get2sammyb That I can agree with; they should have mentioned this before the launch, 100% agree.
I disagree 100% that every game needs multiplayer, especially games that don't have a multiplayer focus. It's not a disaster for this game to leave multiplayer for later.
Multiplayer gamers are a small minority of people who are interested in a game like this, so why should "media judgement" be based on the small minority and not the large majority?!
@Gamer83 which nba title are you referring to out of curiosity? Loved nba live 18 this year.
@daveofduncan
2K. I haven't liked NBA Live for a long time. In fairness, haven't played Live 18.
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