The world’s top tennis stars are hitting the courts again as SEGA’s best-selling tennis series smashes back into action on Wii – Virtua Tennis 2009 will be arriving in May 2009.
Create your own player, join the new World Tour, where you will be trained by a real-life legend of tennis, and compete for the #1 ranking against the planet’s biggest stars. Then take your character online and prove you’re the best with the new online ranking system!
With brand new courts to test your skills in, a new roll call of tennis stars to compete against and even more popular court minigames, Virtua Tennis 2009 is set to be a bigger hitter than ever before!
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 by James Newton
1. LEGEND MARIOID
14 Apr 2009, 11:26 BST
May wait for EA Grand Slam Tennis instead as it uses the WiiMotionPlus adaptor. Virtua Tennis is meant to be a quality title (using past games as evidence) to be fair, but I wonder if the controls will work with that engine in use. It only just about did with Sega Superstar.
2. lanafire7
20 Apr 2009, 20:40 BST
this game also uses the motion plus
3. LEGEND MARIOID
25 May 2009, 20:30 BST
Aaahhh yes it does, sorry. Its been reviews by n-gamer at around 88%....and thats WITHOUT wiimotionplus in use. It sounds quite "hardcore" though
4. Razieln64
12 Jun 2009, 21:09 BST
Just so you know. I've bought EA's GST. I traded it for VT 2009 due to unresponsiveness of the controls in GST. Sometimes, the controls work and other times they just don't. Due to the poor AI you have to absolutely use the nunchuk to move your player. I usually play tennis with my dad (he's 52 and doesn't play video games) so he doesn't need to know all the subtle controls(a for a lob, etc) to have fun. He just needs to know that to hit the ball you swing the wiimote. I tried GST with him and after a few hours we've decided GST wasn't polished enough control wise. And also GST is pretty hard even at medium difficulty. I've still managed to win 2 of 15 matches. VT's responsiveness is way better than GST's and it's more fun to play.
5. lanafire7
18 Jun 2009, 02:55 BST
oohhh thank you for the info, RazieIn64. I've read some reviews on Amazon, but it's hard to get concrete details about controls. are there different camera angles in VT2009? is there any button pushing in VT? I heard there is in GST & that GST is unplayable w/o the nunchuck as your player controlled by computer will screw up shots due to facing the wrong way or not running correctly.
6. Prosody
18 Jun 2009, 09:05 BST
You can move your player around with the D-pad - although they do move automatically - but otherwise your shot selection is all down to how you swing your racquet. As for camera angles, I haven't tried to change them yet but I think there's an over-the-shoulder view. Could be wrong though - full review coming this weekend!
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