Sports Games

About two years after the launch of the first Grand Slam Tennis , EA Canada gives us a new tennis game. However, the setting for this result is quite different: the first was only Grand Slam Tennis for Wii and was one of the first games to take advantage of the Wii Motion Plus, which allowed a more realistic simulation of the control of the racket. The stylized graphics hide simulation tennis very accurate, comprehensive and rewarding. Grand Slam Tennis 2 leaves the home console Nintendo to arrive on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and more computing power available to developers has resulted in a more realistic and detailed look and feel.

The members of the development team of Grand Slam Tennis 2 at the event have paid particular attention to what they call Total Racket Control: in their view, this system of control of the racket should allow the player to make the shot every time you want . As per tradition of sports games from Electronic Arts, with the joy pad control of the racket is assigned to the keys or the right stick. Flat shots, topspin and backspin are made by moving the stick forward, backward, or by combining these two movements, while the left and right, of course, address the ball in the desired direction. But a winner is not just a matter of hitting the ball as hard as possible towards the far corner, but it is also necessary to do so at the right time to exploit the strength of the ball and the movement of the arm of tennis players. The mode of control with the stick is quite intuitive and it only takes a few minutes to adjust the timing necessary to get the shots. We only notice that we would like to make is that perhaps the backspin, which moves rapidly moving the lever back and then forward, could be more immediate to realize and during our brief test, we found a little uncomfortable using it. The traditional controls instead of buttons with no surprises and assign each hit a different button.