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Review: 2K Czech makes tennis fun again with, Top Spin 4.
This review will be entirely pun free. You will not hear any jokes about how much I “love-love” the game, nor will you hear me discuss this game’s many “advantages”. Get it? Advantages, like the score after deuce? Anyway…
The thing is, there really isn’t any need to fall back on puns and cheap rhetoric. I may anyway, but there is no need to, because Top Spin 4 is a game that speaks for itself. It is a video game that will keeps fans of tennis happy for a long time, and may even have some crossover appeal–if it can convince players to try it, which will be difficult because it doesn’t offer much in way of features that will appeal to non-tennis aficionados, but the gameplay is worth a look for any fans of sports games.
But more than that, and where this game aces—sorry–this game bests its predecessor and other competitors is that it retains the intricate play controls that make mastering the game an achievement, but it also offers a style that is accessible to new players.
Top Spin 4 is a game that anyone could pick up and have fun with. There is even a party game mode for four players that will likely be played for the first time by fans that have never tried a tennis video game before, and yet they should enjoy it. And yet it will keep players coming back to attempt to master the system, which will not be easy. That variable level of difficulty, along with a ridiculously deep career mode make Top Spin 4 the best tennis game out right now, and a great overall sports game in its own right.
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