Virtua Tennis: Sega Professional Tennis

Virtua Tennis promises to do something few games have ever bothered to do: take a game like tennis and make it incredibly fun.

Court of appeal
Virtua Tennis promises to do something few games have ever bothered to do: take a game like tennis and make it incredibly fun. An arcade favorite (and a staple in the GamePro offices), VT takes some of the guesswork out of tennis, making the sport both simple and more complex. Putting emphasis on control over realism, this new tennis game hopes to bring the Love to casual sports fans.

Love means Zero
VT looks very, very nice, thanks to Sega's expertise on awesome sports visuals. You can expect that each of the expansive list of real-life pros will look less like a polygon and more like a person. NFL2k-style cutscenes will interrupt the action between awesome plays, giving you a chance to talk smack to your friends, with whom you can play in one-on-one singles or two-on-two doubles matches.

Hey Ladies?
The list of pros lined up for VT reads like a who's who of professional tennis, with some of the sport's top male performers, but where are the ladies? It'd be kinda nice to see Anna Kournikova take on Lindsay Davenport, or to throw in some multiplayer mixed-doubles. Anyway, lack of estrogen aside, Virtua Tennis is poised to serve on July 12, and it should be quite a match.

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