Not impressed. Then again, I’m not a huge tennis fan. Although compared to other tennis games I’ve played this generation like Hot Shots Tennis or Virtua Tennis 3, this game was kinda clunky. Slow to respond controls for everything, but that can be said about almost any game these days where Sonic appears in 3D (Oh man, cheap shot!). The ball will bounce past you, whereas in other games where I’d have the same reaction time I would have been able to hit it perfectly. The demo didn’t allow me to try out the minigames, but it looks interesting. The opening cinema leads me to believe there are puyo puyo, house of the dead, and samba de amigo related minigames later on among other things. Sega Superstars Tennis isn’t really a bad game, it’s just Sega can’t get it through their thick skulls that their control schemes aren’t the most appetizing. I would definitely give this a rent. I tried it out on the PS3, although I am curious if the Wii (given its space-age control setup) might have a better control scheme contained therein. I’m not going to bother to find out. You can miss this title if you already have a tennis game. I’d rather play Hot Shots Tennis over Sega Superstars any day. A bunch of classic characters in your game does not automatically make it good.
Sega Superstars Tennis Demo Impressions
Written on March 22, 2008 at 6:51 am, by Andrew Eidson