Sega's Virtua Tennis series is the longest-running rendition of the sport, having been going since the days of the much-missed Dreamcast, and it's come a long way since those zombie-like characters skulked up and down grass courts. Virtua Tennis 4 is the next instalment in the series, and has enough features to make it – wait for it – a smash hit.
Speaking to the PlayStation Blog, the game's producer Mie Kumagai explained that the motion control offered by Move is so precise the game can be controlled without the use of any buttons, with players performing a wide range of shots using only different physical motions. Your character automatically moves left and right across the court, but you can press the net by moving closer to the Eye camera or drop to the baseline by stepping backwards.
Virtua Tennis 4 also offers another first for the series: a first-person perspective that, when coupled with the game's stereoscopic 3D mode, makes this the most advanced lawn tennis title on the horizon, with the 3D making it far easier to understand the distance of the ball from your player and time your swing perfectly.
With the original Virtua Tennis arcade team working on this new release there's no doubt PlayStation Move will receive a classy tennis title when the game launches next Spring.
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Ha, ha, Virtua Tennis 4 has just invented a new genre: The FPT game (First Person Tennis). Coming from someone who became a bit over addicted to the Wii Sports tennis game, and who also used it as his pre-dominant form of exercise, this game could well fill my Mii's tennis shoes!
I have a lot of time for Virtua Tennis as a fun arcade franchise. I remember enjoying two player matches on my mate's Dreamcast and I played the early PSP game loads, so I like the sound of this.
It will also provide another early indication of the fidelity of Move, including its accuracy in comparison to Wii MotionPlus.
good god this looks good--i really don't have another 100 bucks to spend....but i don't need both of my kidneys, do i?
Can't stop watching the YouTube video of this one. It looks so amazing! To bad I gotta wait sooooo long to try it out.
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