Tennis 2K2

"15, 30, 40...I won."

INTRODUCTION

Here is another GREAT tennis game with sixteen professional tennis players and many, many hours of gameplay . Believe that you won't find any flaw in this game. After all, this is the best tennis game already available for any platform.

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GRAPHICS: 10/10 - Perfect

This game has the best visuals I ever found in a tennis game. I didn't played Virtua Tennis, so I cannot say if there was graphic improvement. Many details, high-polygonal rate, real movement capture, NO slowdown in four-player mode and very, very smooth movement. Isn't enough yet?

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SOUND: 8/10 - Great

Various music tracks to listen during the game but I personally think that you can't concentrate in game while listening to the musics :( No problem, you can switch off background music in Options mode.

Musics are OK and also are the Sound Effects. Those strange sounds (''oah'', ''haa'', ''hee'') that some tennis players do are very realistic here. The Arena Announcer is present here too, making the game even more realistic.

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GAMEPLAY: 10/10 - Perfect

TEN, TEN, TEN. This is the best in the game. There are 16 players (8 men - 8 women - and 2 secrets) from many countries: Rafter, Norman, Venus Williams, Haas...

There are 28 courts, from USA to Hong Kong. Four major options: Tournament, Exhibition, World Tour and Options.

In ''Options'' you can customize your game by changing the number of games in a set, turning ON and OFF BGM, changing the difficult level and language...

In ''World Tour'' you create a male and a female player by customizing face, hair, hair color, skin color, height, weight, shirts, shorts...WOW! And the name too. Then you choose where will stay your house and begin the training of your athletes in tons of minigames. Enter in various tournaments (you can play in Singles or Doubles) to increase your World Rank and gain money to upgrade your rackets and buy new clothes, accessories and stadiums in many shops. FUN!!!

In ''Exhibition'' you can play a simple game with more three players. And in ''Tournament'', you play 5 games (1st Round, @nd Round, Quarter finals, Semi finals and Final). In this mode you unlock two secret players. Now is up to you to discover how to unlock them. Good luck!!!

The minor flaw found here is that in Doubles, the CPU think is god and do almost everything for you. But that doesn't come to ruin the game. The AI (artificial intelligence) is very well-done here too but I think when you play with more advanced players the CPU cheats. When it wants you to lose you lose. But I've already found this in many games like soccer games.

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FUN FACTOR: 10/10 - Perfect

It's almost impossible to be sick with this game. I've already played it for more than 50 hours and I want to play more. And is Multiplayer Mode that is good too. Call your friends or brothers for a game. That's a pity that there isn't any Online Mode. But this game deserves a BIG TEN.

BUY IT: You really should buy this game. This is one of the best sports game out there and one of the last for Dreamcast.

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 12/31/01, Updated 12/31/01