Considering Virtua Tennis was once the king of tennis games, its
latest iteration is particularly disappointing, doing little to keep up
with competition from 2K’s excellent Top Spin 4. The graphical tweaks
are nice, and the new minigames are fun, but at its core, Virtua Tennis
4’s position-based shot mechanics are essentially identical to those in
the 1999 arcade original. They’re easy to pick up, but they feel dated
and unrefined by today’s standards, giving fans of the series a distinct
feeling of deja vu and making you crave greater control over the ball.
It’s not as if there’s fun content to play through either. The career
mode is inherently flawed, the online options limited, and the Move
implementation is terrible
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