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Runs in 1080p, plays smooth, maybe a tad slower-paced than VT1 overall. Demo only lets you play I think like a 1-set match as either for the men Nadal and Federer, and the women Sharapova and Venus Williams; I went with Nadal since it said he was speedy. Difficulty is way too easy for the demo, of course. Big logo spinning in over start of point replays is a bit distracting. Nice animations. Has three different hit buttons, like VT2: Top spin, Lob, Slice (VT1 had just Lob and Shot). |
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| | | | (Virtua Tennis 4 added a Power Shot slo-mo charge-up shot that some people in the internet seem not to have liked. These were all made by HitMaker--initially under their "Sega AM3" moniker. 4 is still listed on Steam but is no longer purchasable; its reviews went way down at some point after release when the Microsoft Games for Windows that version incorporates went offline, preventing the game from launching; owners of that version have since found a workaround.) |
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You know, I said the camera didn't zoom in when one player went to the net, like VT1 does, but it does do that here. ^ D^
Still didn't feel out what the since-VT2 kinda in-between "Slice" shot is really for.
There's also Virtua Tennis 4 on PS3, like VT3 another disc-only game (and VT 2009, the "re-creation" as Wikipedia puts it of VT3 by Sumo Digital: "Virtua Tennis 2009 enhanced all of the features from VT3 although some are mostly kept the same"--I wonder what the purpose really was? For PS3 it adds online play, which 3 on PS3 didn't have--360 version of VT3 did have online; but there was a 360 version of 2009 as well, so it must have been something else... Maybe they had to refresh some player agreements or something? It was two years after VT3, and reviewed significantly worse, with complaints about lack of CPU difficulty, and teleporting in online play).
I've been trying and failing to find footage of one of these supposed charge-up Power Shot things that people apparently love to hate on in VT4. = P |
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| | | | So 3 runs in 1080p. 2009 is 720p. 4 is 720p or 1080i. : PPP ... And I'm getting all three since aside from 4 (which still isn't that expensive), they're dirt cheap. So I'll be able to compare wheeeeeee |
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