Top Spin 3's controls are less about the windup and more about the release. It's a difficult nuance to articulate on paper, but it's a big one that'll have Top Spin vets screaming until they acclimate. You're basically tasked with timing your button releases and shot targeting in concert with your character's animations; the button assignments for various shots are (mostly) the same as before, and positioning is every bit as important as in any tennis sim...but until you get the new swing physics down, you'll be eating the CPU's shots (a lot) on even the easiest difficulty settings.
OPM: Thousands of Brits will be inspired to pick up a racket this week on the back of Andy Murray’s success at Wimbledon – but in this heat, and given our hand-eye co-co-ordination, we’ll be sticking to the virtual type. Looking to fill your week with some ace-smashing antics? Then join us in revisiting PlayStation’s finest tennis efforts…
Not really, most of those games were available on multiple platforms.
Just so happens that the PS magazine wrote the article so makes sense it would be 'Playstation's greatest games' :)
Gamepyre writes: "When Virtua Tennis 2009 first came out I was very excited about the game; I was so excited that I actually went and got it on release day.
Virtua Tennis 3 has been one of my favorite PSP games, and I could not wait to see what the 2009 Xbox 360 version of the game brought to the table. After playing the game, I was very disappointed in Virtua Tennis 2009; not because it was a bad game per say, but because it wasn't anything new from the previous release."
Another week and another episode of Distributed Failure is here for your listening pleasure. This week's "What They've Been Playing" features discussion on Top Spin 3, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Fight Night Round 4, Battlefield 1943, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and much more! They follow that up with some gaming news including the latest update on EGM, the addition of prizes to 1 vs. 100, and the announcement of a new Mechwarrior game.
What is wrong with 1up??? How are you gonna have a guy review a game that is gonna come back and say, It's just too hard for me, you have to push all these buttons and it's more complicated than the others were? Give me a break, if it's too hard for you, quit your side job as a reviewer and go back to playing your SNES for god's sake. It's next gen gaming, I want a challenge.