You would think that having a sprint button would make the character more nimble than a ninja on Red Bull, but again, it’s useless it’s not an instant sprint, leaving a delay between the button being pressed and the character deciding to sprint. Tennis World Tour makes you feel like you’re running in treacle. Tennis is a free-flowing fast-paced game. I think the idea was to have some kind of rhythm to the game, but alas, it’s a constant fight between you and the player. Even in the training levels it’s a struggle to get to grips with the timing and placement. The number of times I missed shots or hit them in the net because the player wouldn’t move how I expected him to move was agonizing. A lot of times I want to nudge my player left or right a bit to play the shot I wanted, but the player didn’t move, it was like he was stuck to the ground. In a bid to make the game that more accessible they have implemented a kind of auto movement which fails to give you any kind of control. What Big Ant Studios have tried to do is take some of the guesswork away and add a little bit more of the Virtua Tennis magic in. This is where Tennis World Tour literally falls apart. Shots aside the other important factor in tennis is positioning yourself on the court in preparation for the fizzing ball heading your way. Running across court ready to wallop a backhand crosscourt can end up going in the total wrong direction, no matter how hard you hold LEFT down on the analogue stick.
The directional control in Tennis World Tour is woefully inconsistent. The other shot element you have to pay attention to is the shot direction, there’s no point hitting the ball straight back to your opponent so you need to direct the shot to the empty part of the court to stand a chance of winning the point. It’s purely down to luck if you hit it right or not.
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Even while playing out the training, which doubles as a sort of tutorial there is no explanation of how the timing works, no hints on how to gauge the best time to hit a shot. It might just be me but I really struggled with this system. But this almost fails instantly simply because you have such a small window of opportunity to take the shot yet the charge meter takes too long to fill up so you’re inevitably going to hit your shot too late, if at all.
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This does give you a small energy bar, the more full it is the harder the shot. Amongst your arsenal of shots, you also have a charge shot. Having played a lot of tennis in my youth, I know the science behind the timing of shots, this game appears to be nothing like the real thing. It’s left down to guesswork, it’s more a case of luck than anything. The trouble is there is no indication of the perfect timing. Get the sweet spot and you have yourself the perfect shot that could win you the point. Too soon and you stand a chance of hitting the net. During a match there is a short time frame for you to hit your shots, if you hit them too soon, your shots could fire wildly outside the tramlines.
But unlike classic games such as Virtua Tennis, Tennis World Tour is not a quick pick up and play, this is more of a strategy game where the timing of your shots is key. The face buttons on the controller are your topspin, flat, backhand, slice, drop shot, and lop and that’s pretty much all you have. This sequel follows the same path as the original game capturing the more strategic elements of Tennis, namely working on the timing of the shots. The first Tennis World Tour game wasn’t particularly well-received with a lot of criticism being aimed at the player movement (or lack of) in this sequel, Nacon, and Big Ant Studios have promised new mechanics, more animations, more players, and more strategy. Could this fill a void for us tennis fans? Up steps Tennis World Tour 2 then, a tennis game that packs in all the top stars of the game, all the stadiums* and tournaments you know and love. I’ve genuinely missed Wimbledon fortnight, which to me is the epitome of British Summer. One sport that seems to have been hardest hit has been tennis. In this year of a pandemic sporting occasions have been few and far between.
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