Tennis World Tour Is Back With A Sequel Following 2018's Horror Show

This looks like it's been developed by a different developer, Big Ant Studios, who did AO Tennis 2 which was a good tennis game so it should be much better than the original game

One thing is for sure this console generation, the switch version will be the worst version.

As crazy as it sounds I still enjoy playing the SNES Super tennis game and play it every week on my Switch. Every game I play is against the hidden player who is much faster and hits the ball harder than any of the regular players in the game. I have yet to play a newer tennis game that is as much "FUN" (for me) as that tennis game. Yes it is miles behind these other tennis games when it comes to graphics, using the actual player names of the pros, different shot selections etc. BUT these games to me almost always make me feel like my player is very stiff. It is also hard to pinpoint where you want the serve to go or even your return volley. Every shot I hit with Super Tennis makes me feel like I am controlling where the ball is going. I will check this tennis game out as I love tennis but I find it hard to believe it will topple Super Tennis for me. And it will probably be 59.99 which is just nuts.

But can we be defaulted for hitting a line judge? If not, then it's not realistic enough for me.

@Xyphon22 He's likely getting added as dlc to Streets of Rage 4, so you can get your fix there.

I hope they allow you to accidentally hit the line judge with the tennis ball.

That was a terrible move by the Open, I know there is a rule in place but if that was Federer do they apply it in a US Open tournament where he is a few games away from winning his 21st slam? Maybe but I think Novak's reputation got the better of him in this instance and also because he isn't as well liked as Roger or Nadal. Imagine Nadal being thrown out of the French open because of this? Never happen.

@Amrulez It's hard to say because they haven't done it. After the example made of Djokovic, all other competitors will likely think twice before having a tantrum, so we'll probably not find out anytime soon. Glad it happened though. Not really into tennis so I don't like or dislike him any more or less than a random stranger down the shops, but stupid selfish behaviour that directly results in someone being injured (lucky it wasn't worse) needs to be dealt with.

It's a rule for everyone, that if you hit someone, either official or crowd by hitting a ball in anger you are automatically disqualified from the tournament. What was wrong was he was arguing for around seven minutes that he should be treated differently, which is just out of order

Big ant made AO tennis which received ok reviews. The first one was by a different developer so the sequel should be middle of the road at least.

Can we just skip this and have another Virtua Tennis please?

@doctorhino

AO Tennis 2 was a good game so with a bigger budget I think Tennis World Tour 2 will be pretty good

Tennis game again listed we bare bones content and licenses but day one DLC to add stadiums and content.

No thanks.

After the last one this should include everything day one and have plenty of review copies ages before release to try and undo some damage

@Magonigal

I get it, he wasn't throwing a tantrum he just got frustrated. And he was polite in his explanation to the referees. I understand if you allow this to go what happens next time. How bad does someone need to be injured before you can enforce the rule again. I still say not a chance in hell Nadal or Federer so close to winning another grand slam get tossed. If a crowd was there they would go absolutely nuts losing the big draw with all the money they pay to sit and watch these matches. But I agree, Novak has a history so he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

@Amrulez

I think it's considered a serious enough rule that anyone is disqualified but Nadal and Federer don't even react like that anyway. You never see them show any dissent really so that's part of why they're much more popular with fans than Djokovic.

@Magonigal yeah, I'm quite conflicted on this one - I like video tennis, and although they are far from perfect, Big Ant have made some good sports games and tend to at least patch up their games. On the other hand, the original TWT was one of the worst launches I've ever experienced and publisher Nacon / BigBen (don't let the name change fool you) are one of my least favourite publishers due to this and other shenanigans...

@nicols

I would trust the developer on this. I really like Big Ants games and I think they usually do a very good job of representing the sports they're simulating. I've got AO Tennis 2 and Cricket 19 and they're both some of the best sports games around that just could be better if they had bigger development budgets so hopefully BigBen are giving better resources to Big Ant and I think it's a good sign that they are going with a respected sports game developer.

Sega's Virtua Tennis 4 came out in 2011, it looks better than this game in every way: the character models, lighting, animations, etc.

It's bizarre that a recent tennis game can't improved on a game that came out almost a decade ago.

I feel like the first game was unnecessarily hated on, then again I played it way after it was initially reviewed when they had tons of patches made to it. That is the honest problem with a lot of reviews these days, since we live in an era where games get so heavily patched over time it can make the initial reviews irrelevant to the current day product.

my god, can they simply remake Top Spin 4 ?
Isn't it so complicated ?

@Magonigal On Big Ant we agree but this is Nacon's IP and I don't trust them - other consoles are getting a deluxe 'Ace' edition coming with some sort of premium season pass to get access to extra licensed players, stadia and 'official' tournaments for example... that doesn't sound like a publisher that's trying to make amends for the bad smell that lingers around this franchise from last time...

@JayJ This. It was a terrible launch and the patches took a long time to arrive, the devs basically collapsed, Big Ben director gave an interview to a french business mag saying the game was broken, they knew that even as they promoted the online game knowing it wouldn't be ready (online play was dropped a day before launch) but not to worry, it would still make a profit as most sales were non-refundable physical discs... but by the end, it was patched, online was added back and was an OKish tennis game (around 6 months after launch).

Big Ant were almost as bad with the original AO licence... it launched JUST in Australia in January 2018 to tie into Australian Open, was barely playable, was launched around the rest of the world months later as AO international... and was still bad! This was within weeks of the bad TWT launch. The difference was the ceo wrote a letter to the community soon after launch, apologised and said we messed up, tell us what we need to fix and then released a huge series of bug fixes, tweaks and game play changes based on community. The fundamental game play was still a bit 'marmite' but it did run better and included many features requested by fans re the control scheme etc.