Three Speech writes: "Top Spin 3, 2K Sports' latest tennis game, is out on the PS3. Three Speech was in Miami recently to get some quality hands-on time with the game, and chat with some of the talent behind it.
It doesn't get much better than sitting in the Miami sunshine watching lovely tennis star Maria Sharapova excitedly playing a videogame on an exclusive rooftop tennis court. She's part of an impressive roster of playable stars gracing 2K's Top Spin 3, one that also includes James Blake, Gael Monfils, Justine Henin, Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, and, as a PlayStation 3 exclusive, Rafa Nadal. You can also play as tennis legends such as Boris Becker and Bjorn Borg.
As Three Speech dons its tennis whites for some hands-on time on the PS3 version, though, there are no legends in sight - we're starting out from scratch in the single player career mode, which looks to be the best yet in any tennis game. Here you can customise your male or female player to the Nth degree, including body types, facial features and gear. It's good enough that you can create decent facsmilies of any real player or person, or just create funny tennis-playing freaks."
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.
