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Tennis World Tour 2 (PS4) Review

Michael September 25, 2020 News , Nintendo Switch , PC , Playstation 4 , PS4 Reviews , Reviews , Xbox One Leave a comment 3,264 Views

You can challenge the umpire on this, but….

Tennis World 2 has the things you’d expect of a tennis game, on and off the court. From drop shots and exhibition matches to volleys and a Career mode, developer Big Ant Studios has put it all in. It’s just not their best set.

If you’re coming to Tennis World Tour 2 like me, right off of the heels of Mario Tennis Aces, then you’re going to be in for a rude awakening.

Timing is everything in Tennis World Tour 2 . Mess it up while going for a winner, and you’ll see your ball fly out. The window can be demanding, but it is not an unassailable challenge.

Down a Break

The real issues on the court come from the way the game handles movement and animations. Your character moves in many ways automatically. Sometimes, they’ll swing even if you don’t hit a button (this won’t go in), and other times just watch the ball go by. It can be a struggle to have them do precisely what you want, especially when they commit to an animation against your will. This is made worse when you expect the character to move while preparing your aim. Countless times I’ve walked away from a serve trying to load a charged return, while on other points I’ll do the exact same thing and the character will stay in position.

The worst are the predestined points, wherein the crowd will start to cheer before the ball has even hit the ground, and my character will hang their head in shame as if there isn’t a sprint button that will clear the distance. I once pressed the lob button for a return, but because the point was already decided (despite the ball not yet hitting the court), that button press was instead read as queue highlight.

As a local-multiplayer tennis game, Tennis World 2 is sufficient at best. It feels and looks like tennis. Rallies last, hits mostly go where you expect, and even if you haven’t mastered the expectations for timing, you’ll have decent fun.

Online (which ran well during our post-launch play sessions) is a similar story. People make mistakes, and you’ll feel like you’re walking them all around the court with your expertly placed shots.

It’s against the AI when you realize that people is all you’ll ever be, and you’re up against the machine.

Career Lows

Career mode starts you with a custom-built character (using preset facial features and limited fashion) at the bottom of the rankings. Spending your time playing exhibition matches, doing training challenges, and hiring agents fills your pockets with the game’s currency and experience, which are in short supply in other modes.

How short? For a one-versus-one, three-set match at six games each, I earned under 300 coins. For a one-game match in career mode, I earned 720.

Early equipment is decently priced under 10,000, but rackets and card packs (we’ll get back to card packs) are both an unattainable grind for people hoping to progress in any way from local play.

(For the record, I won a quick match online and was awarded zero.)

No Grand Champion

It’s painful that money and experience both come so slowly, because your Career character will start with stats in the twenties. For comparison, Nadal averages 90s across the board. Even your no-name, auto-filled early-career competitors have a base in the 40s.

What does this mean in practice? Your shots will go wide, your serves will be slow, and you’ll be at a distinct disadvantage throughout the Career mode. Aiming for corners with anything less than a “Good” is a good way to lose a game.

Which, frankly, matters little. Exhibitions pay out identically win or lose. Often, it’s better even to throw a match to complete a challenge, because those hugely increase your take-home. There’s no real rush to improve your ranking, either, so you can grind up stats for a few years while gradually getting a handle on the AI, shot timing, and serves. It’ll take a bit of time to get anywhere near the level of Federer or Nadal. Experience gain is slow, and a level-up only increases your stats by 0-3 at a time.

These stats aren’t precisely self-explanatory. Is front-hand accuracy? Strength? And why does leveling your precision increase your precision stat less than leveling defense? Like many other parts of the game, everything changes in such minute fractions that changes won’t be clear level to level.

Tennis Card Game

Outside of Career Mode, there is nothing really worth working towards. Outfits and rackets purchased by coins can’t be attached to other characters, making them exclusive to your customs. That leaves cards.

Cards are limited-use actives that give miniscule advantages for a match or a game, such as giving increased stamina use for certain shots to your opponent. Generally, they’re so small that it’s not even worth changing the way you play to react. They’re definitely not worth spending your coins on. Card packs at varying rarities supply the jolt familiar to loot-box games, except without any worthwhile reward. Collect them, equip them, use them: they don’t make much of a difference, either way.

You can’t turn them off, either. They sit on the screen, delaying the start of some points because the AI is rifling through theirs. At least you can’t buy them with real money?

Presentation

Tennis World Tour 2 is not a looker by any stretch of the imagination. Outside of serve routines, animations are shared by all the players. You’ve never seen Kei Nishikori this smug or Nick Kergios this calm. The lack of personality makes it difficult to believe that’s who is on the court. Colors are garish at best, with a plastic sheen for all your players. Even that can be distracting: there’s a glaring bald spot on my custom character’s head whenever the lighting hits him right.

It looks like tennis, and, just as serviceably, it sounds like tennis. There’s a crowd, an umpire, and balls hitting rackets. No announcers follow the action in your game, and there’s no music during play. Tunes jingle on the menus with enough energy, but it feels like something is missing from the action. Maybe I’m just too used to tennis on the television having stats read at me by retired players.

Final Thoughts

That’s an emptiness that carries throughout Tennis World Tour 2 ’s presentation. If you are looking for a single-player Tennis experience, it’s here in Tennis World Tour 2 . It’s a decent tennis game with unnecessary card fluff, a slow grind, and difficulties that aren’t suited to a casually interested tennis fan. And that’s on the best day. The occasional freeze, frustrating animations, and visual oddities don’t make matters any better. You don’t have to skip Tennis World Tour 2 if you’re desperate for a new tennis game, but if you have one you like, then stick to it.

PS4 Review Copy provided by Nacon for review.

Tennis World Tour 2 Release Date : September 22, 2020 Platform : PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch Publisher : Nacon Developer : Big Ant Studios MSRP : $39.99

Tennis World Tour 2

Premise - 70%, gameplay - 60%, presentation - 55%.

Tennis World Tour 2 has singles and doubles tennis, but a litany of issues keep it from being the premier champion of the sport. Even if you're desperate for another tennis game, you're probably better off looking elsewhere.

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Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal headline Tennis World Tour 2

• Tennis World Tour 2 out September 24 in India
• Available on PC, PS4, Xbox One for ~Rs. 3,000
• Federer and Nadal are in Tennis World Tour 2

Tennis World Tour 2 allows you to “cheat” at the game, which feels like it's missing the point. Just like the 2018 poorly-received original, Tennis World Tour 2 features a variety of “skill cards” that can be activated during matches, allowing you to boost your player's values or even affect your opponent's attributes for a limited time. You can reduce their shot or serve precision, while improving yours. Moreover, these skill cards are found in packs that you must buy with in-game currency, just as with FIFA Ultimate Team. At least you can't buy in-game currency this time around, unlike the microtransactions model present in the first Tennis World Tour game.

Still, it's terrible game design — and worse, it's entirely unnecessary. Just look at FIFA . EA Sports discovered that most players never made use of “training items” (found in Ultimate Team packs), which worked in a similar manner to Tennis World Tour's “skill cards”. And after years of player feedback, EA is finally getting rid of them in FIFA 21 . There's no need for Tennis World Tour 2 to continue with an outdated model. You could simply ignore the entire system, but naturally there's no getting around it when you're up against the AI or even other humans online. Tennis World Tour 2 doesn't allow you to disable skill cards either, no matter what game mode you're playing.

Speaking of game modes, Tennis World Tour 2 also offers doubles tennis this time around, which was missing from the original game. It's a lot of fun, especially to see how quickly AI players react to each other's shots. Four human players can play locally on the same device, or two players on two different machines online. Weirdly, you can't connect four consoles or PCs together on Tennis World Tour 2. That's not the only change. Tennis World Tour 2 also boasts of a new game engine, developed by Melbourne-based Big Ant Studios — also behind AO Tennis 2 and Cricket 19 — which takes over from Tennis World Tour maker Breakpoint Studio. It claims to offer double the character animations, better visuals, and overhauled gameplay.

Doubles tennis in Tennis World Tour 2 Photo Credit: Nacon/Big Ant Studios

But despite all those claims, the Tennis World Tour 2 engine just doesn't have the fluidity of other AA sports games. Heck, it can barely even match what's offered by made-by-the-fans efforts such as Tennis Elbow 2013. Movement doesn't feel natural as players seem to snap from one position to the next, instead of running like humans do. It all feels a bit rigid. There still seems to be a lack of animations as the world's best players — the likes of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are included on Tennis World Tour 2 — are nowhere as superhuman as their real-life counterparts. You can't slide across the court or attempt a last-ditch lob, because the animation doesn't exist.

Instead, many a time frustratingly, Tennis World Tour 2 would seemingly pre-decide that the ball had passed us and wouldn't even let us swing our racquet. Our player would just stand there dumb as a dodo and let the ball go around them or sometimes even hit them. At other times, the player wouldn't swing their racquet even though the ball was within their reach, simply because we hadn't moved the left stick in the direction the ball was coming from. Even the way the ball itself moves in the air doesn't have the natural feel of a real-life tennis ball. It simply zooms across the air with little to no friction — there's no wind factor in Tennis World Tour 2 anyway — and its trajectory and arc isn't impacted by what part of the racquet it hits. All that's to say that it feels very artificial.

Where Tennis World Tour 2 does feel more lifelike is in how crucial timing is. As anyone who's ever played tennis can attest, it's a game of fractions. Hit the ball half a second earlier or later, and that makes all the difference. Tennis World Tour 2 sows that ethos deep into every aspect of the game. With shots, you must give your player enough time to swing their racquet, which naturally changes depending on the speed of the ball. That means you must press the button of choice — flat shot, top spin, slice, or lob — before the ball reaches you. And if you're looking to add power, by holding down any of the buttons, you've to start even sooner, sometimes as the ball is going towards the other side.

It took us a fair bit of time to get used to that concept and subsequently the mechanic. Thankfully, Tennis World Tour 2 has a built-in timing trainer — “too soon”, “good”, “perfect”, or “too late” — that appears over your player every time you hit the ball and tells you how you're doing. Still, a lot of our shots would be late, more so when squaring against top players who have a better percentage of delivering high-powered shots that give you less time to react.

This also applies to serves, which make use of an all-new system on Tennis World Tour 2. You've to time two different components: the ball toss and the racquet swing. With the toss, you can opt to go “safe” (button press) or push for more accuracy (button hold). The next step requires you to hit the ball at its maximum height. These in turn decide how close the ball will land to the selected position, and how much power there will be behind it. Again, the timing trainer applies to your serves too, letting you know if it's too weak, “max power”, or just fine.

While these additions are welcome, Tennis World Tour 2 is still missing some tiny but helpful gameplay tweaks. The receiver's court position is one of those things that is crucial to a tennis player's strategy, whether they like to play from deep behind the baseline or push their opponent to play quicker, depending on how defensive or aggressive they are planning to be. But the game resets your receiving position, forcing you to readjust yourself on every serve. This is the kind of thing Tennis Elbow 2013 understands. It remembers your position by both first and second serve, which is very helpful as it lets you focus on the game, once you've adjusted to your opponent's serve.

Options are similarly limited in the improved Career mode on Tennis World Tour 2. As you progress and level up, you will earn skill points that can be assigned to either “attack”, “defence”, or “precision”. Those categories are too broad. For what it's worth, you can also improve your player by spending the in-game currency you earn (by playing) on buying new equipment such as licensed racquets or creating your own customised racquet by picking the frame, strings, the handle, vibration dampener, and so on.

In Career mode, in addition to the game's basic difficulty choices (very easy, easy, normal, hard, or very hard), you also have to pick career difficulty: “futures”, “challenger”, “worlds”, or “grand slam”. This decides how long the matches you play are (number of sets and number of games per sets) and whether they can be replayed. You can also (randomly) get injured in Career mode while in a match. Tennis World Tour 2 allows you to play through it but we ended aggravating the injury further.

Court Philippe-Chatrier in Tennis World Tour 2 Photo Credit: Nacon/Big Ant Studios

Outside of the Career mode — and the expected singles and doubles exhibition — Tennis World Tour 2 allows you to create your own tournaments as well. The licensed ones (Roland-Garros and Tie Break Tens) are part of the Tennis World Tour 2 season pass known as “Annual Pass”, which also brings in licensed stadiums (five at launch from Paris, Madrid, and Halle) The base game costs around Rs. 3,000 and the Annual Pass is available as part of Tennis World Tour 2 Ace Edition, which comes in around Rs. 4,000. It's a shame that licensed stuff is locked behind a second paywall, though for what it's worth, the Annual Pass will give you more content and players after release. There are 36 players at launch, with two more — Gustavo Kuerten and Marat Safin — available to those who pre-order.

Ultimately, Tennis World Tour 2, with its steep learning curve and stocky animations, is a game that will largely appeal to the hardcore tennis fan. It's nowhere at the level it needs to be, but it's also operating in an environment without any competition. That's why despite the disaster the 2018 original was, it was still funnily enough the only choice when tennis competitions looked to virtual choices during the global lockdown. While footballers were duking it on FIFA's polished pitches, the likes of Andy Murray tuned into Tennis World Tour.

A game that its developer acknowledged was only 20 percent complete when the publisher Bigben Interactive pushed the release button because it had to capitalise on the incoming French Open. That's also the case with Tennis World Tour 2 — the game is out Tuesday in the US and Thursday elsewhere, and Roland-Garros begins Monday — but the sequel is in a much better shape as it storms out of the gate. Hopefully, Big Ant can put work out the problems as new content rolls in. Or maybe the third time will be the charm, if Tennis World Tour 3 ever gets made.

• Emphasis on timing
• Shot timing trainer
• New serve system
• Doubles tennis
• Rigid player movement
• Weak animation affects gameplay
• Artificial ball movement
• Skill cards system
• 4 systems can't connect
• Career progression too broad
• Licenses part of season pass

Rating (out of 10): 6

Gadgets 360 played Tennis World Tour 2 on the Xbox One X. The game is available September 24 in India on PC (Steam), PS4, and Xbox One. It costs Rs. 2,724 (XB1) / Rs. 2,999 (PS4), while Tennis World Tour 2 Ace Edition costs Rs. 3,799 (XB1) / Rs. 3,999 (PS4). Steam prices are unavailable as yet.

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Tennis World Tour 2

• PS Plus required for online play
• Supports up to 4 online players with PS Plus
• Online play optional
• 1 - 4 players
• Remote Play supported
• PS5 game streaming supported only with Premium subscription

Play as the world's top players or create your own player to try and dominate the world rankings. Faster paced, with more animations and more realism: experience the true sensations of tennis, in singles or doubles games, and challenge your friends locally or online. Tennis World Tour 2 - Complete Edition includes all content available for Tennis World Tour 2 and hits new heights in terms of technical and graphical performance. The edition includes: - The base game - 48 official players - The signature moves of the biggest stars - Roland-Garros and the Philippe-Chatrier, Suzanne-Lenglen and Simonne-Mathieu courts - The ATP Cup - Tie Break Tens - The Madrid Open and the Estadio Manolo Santana - The Halle Open and the OWL ARENA - A wide range of official equipment and outfits - 4K/60FPS gaming with ray tracing, smoother gameplay and faster loading times

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• Tennis World Tour 2 PS4™ & PS5™
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Bjr a vs possédant déjà le premier tennis world tour l achat de ce 2 est il justifie ou pas ?

pour moi oui le jeu peut devenir encore meilleur mais la on a quand meme un bon jeu de tennis

dailleurs le 1 n a meme pas eu la moyenne sur beaucoup de sites et c était mérité car trop de choses étaient bien foirés meme si j ai passé malgré tout des moments sympats

donc bien qu il y est encore des choses qui peuvent etre améliorés y a un réel effort nottament niveau gameplay on est loin d avoir juste une mise a jour du 1 tout est assez nettement mieux fait

Je rejoins mon vdd,clairement il n'a rien avoir avec le 1er sur la partie "gameplay"

Sur d'autres points c'est pareil (editeur de perso, carriere).

Mais vraiment le gameplay procure de bon es sensations quand on gere bien.

J'ai pas testé le online car j'ai pas d'abonnement.

Et pour la difficulté vous me conseillez quelle mode normal ou difficile pour un minimun de challenge

Alors la ça dépendra de ton niveau.

Moi je suis arrivé en "trés difficile" et je trouve ça pas mal.

Le mode expert est bien aussi mais je le trouve moins realiste niveau rythme (trop rapide à mon gout).

Je voudrai surtout un minimun de challenge je me mets toujours en mode normal dans mes jeux mais sur les vidéos ce mode m a l'air trop facile j hésite avec difficile je précise que je n'ai pas encore le jeu je me renseigne avant

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