From: Microsoft Average Rating: Binding: Video Game ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Microsoft Platform: Xbox
Features:
Experience intense action and realism: Top Spin delivers all the intensity of professional tennis, from cross-court winners and crushing ground strokes to rocket serves. Master all the shots, including slices, lobs, drops, spins, and several trick shots, while perfecting your play on various surfaces, including clay, hard court, and grass.
Get into the zone: Top Spin challenges you to take risks. Try difficult shots to "get into the zone," and use that momentum to improve your play. Develop your player's image on the court by pumping his or her fist after a great shot, slamming a racket to the ground, or arguing a bad call.
Become the world's best player: You may be number one in your own living room, but Xbox Live gives you the chance to prove it, any time and any place, on a global scale. Climb worldwide ladders, play tournaments, take on all challengers in singles matches, or find a skilled partner for doubles play.
Build a career: Personalize your player's look, style, and personality and get coaching to correct a weakness or perfect an aspect of his or her tennis game. Work your way up from the local playground, through the amateur ranks, to playing real pros in the world's top tournaments while earning endorsements along the way.
Play with the world's best players: With 16 professional tennis players, Top Spin tests gamers in a five-set match against Lleyton Hewitt or as Martina Hingis' partner in the final match of a doubles tournament. Some of the players featured in Top Spin include the following:
Product Description: This game is playable on the Xbox Live Online System. For a full list of Xbox Live products, click here! Top Spin is the complete tennis experience. Define your tennis playing style, take risks, pull off world-class shots, argue calls, and work the crowd to develop a unique image on the court. You
GOOD BUT NOT THE BEST TENNIS VIDEO GAME OUT THERE THIS GAME IS MORE FOR THE CASUAL TENNIS FAN THATS WHY YOU HAVE SO MANY REVIEWS OF PEOPLE SAYING I DONT PLAY OR WATCH TENNIS BUT I LIKE TOPSPIN.SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 IS MORE FOR THE TENNIS HARDCORE ELITE.TOPSPIN IS TOO EASY FOR HARDCORE TENNIS FANS AS MYSELF.I CAN BEAT CHANG ON HARD LEVEL 6-0,6-0,6-0 IN FACT I CAN BEAT ANY PLAYER ON HARD LEVEL WITHOUT LOSING A SINGLE POINT.TOPSPIN DOESNT REQUIRE YOU TO BE RIGHT IN POSITION TO HIT A BALL OR VOLLEY LIKE SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 DOES.ALSO TOPSPIN PLAYERS TELL YOU WHERE THEY ARE GOING TO SERVE BY WHERE THEY ARE STANDING ON THE SERVICE LINE.IF THEY ARE STANDING OUT WIDE THEY ARE GOING TO SERVE OUT WIDE,IF THEY ARE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE THEY ARE GOING TO SERVE DOWN THE LINE.SO THIS MAKES THE GAME TOO EASY.THE GRAPHICS ARE GREAT SO IS THE GAME PLAY BUT ITS MORE ARCADE LIKE THAN REALISTIC TENNIS.IF YOU ARE A HARDCORE TENNIS FAN GET SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 IF YOU ARE A CASUAL TENNIS FAN THEN GET THIS.ALSO SUPER NINTENDO HAS A GREAT TENNIS GAME CALLED SUPER TENNIS.IT MAY NOT BE UP THERE WITH GRAPHICS LIKE TOPSPIN BUT THE GAMEPLAY IS GREAT AND NEVER GETS TIRING.SMASHCOURT TENNIS 2 IS MORE OF A CHALLENGE FOR TENNIS FANS.
Stop the complaining, gamers. Im going to try to be as clear as I can, while being completely unproffesional about it; Don't listen to the whiny haters. Those who claim the system is "frustrating, annoying, difficult" and such simply don't know how to play the game or are defficient at games in general. This game IS better than Virtual Tennis. It's more addictive, more fun, fuller, deeper richer, AND with a carreer and online mode that is plain awsome.
If you like a challenge, like pretty visuals, and just enjoy sport games in general, you'll appreatiate all the aspects of this game. With deccent practice one can perform all the super tacticle moves such as the risk shots as smoothly as the A.I in the game, and even if perhaps the difficulty is unstable, it really won't matter once you commit just a few hours into learning the stradegies of the game, and tennis in general.
THIS GAME IS THE MOST FRUSTRATING THING IN THE WORLD This game is terrible!!! The game doesn't give you any idea of where the ball is going which results in: Having no idea where serves are going to go. Never knowing whether or not the ball will be out. Having no idea where to go when the player lobs it.
This was the most frustrating, un-fun videogame I have ever played in my life. STAY AWAY FROM IT COMPLETELY!!!!!!!!
Best tennis game out there, but still needs work This is definetely the best tennis game I've ever played:
The pros: 1. The graphics are awesome, whether you are in first person zoom view, far TV view or in the replays. 2. The movement and motion of the players is realistic and convincing for the shots they attempt (slices, smash, dropshots, etc) 3. Crowd reactions are realistic and sound real. 4. You can design your own player with great detail in the facial features, body shape, playing style and clothing. 5. Many real pro tournaments are actually used (Pacific Life Open, Nasdaq-100 Open) 6. Real name brands appear in the backgrounds as sponsors (Pepsi, Mastercard, Kroger, Microsoft, etc). Also clothing and equipment sponsors are real companies (Prince, Wilson, Adidas, Reebok, etc) 7. The sound effects for the ball and running on different surfaces is very realistic.
The Cons: 1. There should be more involvement with the ball boys and linesmen. They never move. 2. There should be questionable line calls where you can challenge the chair umpire. 3. There should be more variety in gameplay between the different surfaces. Clay should play slower and grass faster. 4. The players grunts should be more distinct and realistic. The sound on that is rather weak. 5. They should have the real Grand Slam tournaments represented like the Australian Open and The US Open instead of the fictional Melbourne Open and Americas Championships (What the hell is that?) 6. You should be able to see a replay more than just once and they should show the whole rally and not just part of it. 7. There should be more current top ten players in the roster for both men and women. Where are Federer, Nadal, Roddick, Agassi, Safin, Davenport, Sharapova, Venus, Serena, Clijsters, Henin-Hardenne, etc)? Why do we still have Sampras and Kournikova? Aren't they retired?
Pretty Much A Superb Tennis Game This is possibly the best tennis game I have ever played. I recommend it to anyone remotely interested in Tennis. There may not be the latest tennis champions and all but I really like the work done of some of the top line players like Sampras,Hewitt,etc. Of course you have the ladies too. There is fatigue in this game and it is not exaggerated by any length of imagination except maybe two small things that are absent.
A)the ball boys dont move B)no commentary
Despite the absence of these two the game pretty much rocks. There is Career mode and there is practise. Graphics are neat and precise.The cloud volume could be a little less irritating.
I don't play tennis but enjoy watching it.The wimbeldon is going on right now. I'd rather play TOP SPIN with my cousins than actually bother to watch.Yes,I am a lazy head. Anyhow,I'll stop talking now.
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Trevor
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