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Binding: Video Game Brand: Aspyr EAN: 0618870209012 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Format: CD Label: Aspyr Media Manufacturer: Aspyr Media Model: 20901 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Aspyr Media Release Date: March 05, 2007 Sales Rank: 3999 Studio: Aspyr Media
Features:
Use Player Creator to create realistic player models and customize them with the highest level of detail with hairstyles, facial features, and an incredible array of real-life apparel.
If traditional tennis isn’t your style, kick back and enjoy multiplayer Party Games like Splash Court, Wall Breaker, and Time Bomb.
Vibrant colors and shockingly high-definition resolutions deliver illustrious depictions of players, stadiums, crowds and tracksides, bringing next-gen tennis to life on your PC.
Innovative gameplay allows you to play your style of tennis with a variety of shots.
Challenge other players around the world with online play.
Product Description: One of the most celebrated sports games is back and better than ever! Top Spin 2 brings back everything that made the first Top Spin a hit -- then adds all-new features and options for a wilder pro tennis experience. The new DigitalIdentity truly puts you in the game, so you can really experience the pro tour in real-world venues. Immerse yourself in the world of top-ranked professional tennis and come out swinging against the world's best players. Innovative gameplay lets you adapt your on-court playing style with slices, drops, topspins, lobs and drives. Play as, or against, 24 top pros, including: Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Andy Roddick, Venus Williams and more. Challenge other players around the world with online play Minimum System Requirements - Windows XP with Service Pack 2 ? Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ ? 512MB (1024MB recommended) ? 4.5GB free hard drive space ? DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card ? 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX 9.0ccompatible 128 MB with latest drivers (256MB recommended) ?Geforce 6600 or Radeon X600 recommended
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A rich experience, once able
This is the BEST tennis simulation to date for the PC! The player action animations are superb, and the AI isn't so retarded. There is a somewhat steep learning curve, but once you master the controls, this is a great tennis game. The "risk shots" are named that for a reason, they are usually way too risky to bother with, but the "advanced" shots really add nice depth to this game (which sets it apart from the way too easy Virtua Tennis 3, e.g.) -- unfortunately you don't get them until a later career season, though. The character creation is incredible, having a LOT of configurable traits and such. The only reason I take a star off this game is because of the very steep system requirements that do not match what they recommend; do not even bother with this game if you do not have a PCI-E system and decent video card! Also, this game is ported from the Xbox360, so a duo or quad core is recommended! Finally, let's hope they bother bringing Top Spin 3 to the PC soon -- I can't believe it will be on that darn Wii and we get dissed. lol
Rating: - Best Tennis PC Game but......
The great thing about this game are the options available. Player creation, coaches, outfits are all very good. But, I have to admit like the others have said, the game takes a long time to load. First, you have to load to get to the menu. That takes a while. Then, you have to load career. That takes longer. Then, you you have to load the tournament....which also takes a long time. Aah, finally...that's what you wanted to hear me say, isn't it? No....it's still not over yet. You now have to load the match!
I have a very fast PC with a damn good graphics accelerator. Still, it takes such a long time to load.
There are graphic glitches as well. Sometimes, everything goes in slow motion. It happens occasionally. Oh, by the way, they are called "BALL BOYS," and not "RUN BOYS." They are supposed to pick up the ball when it hits the net, which they don't. They just run. This is a major goof up and makes a great game look silly. One other reviewer mentioned that having the Number 1 and Number 2 player in the same draw is an inexcusable error. Boy, was that an understatement. I guess he was being nice. Almost all the top players are put in one draw and the rest are put in the other. This is a mockery of tennis. There is also another inexcusable error from the standpoint of a true tennis fan. Two errors in fact. But, I'll discuss one.
One - The "GOLDEN RULE" of Wimbledon is that all competitors are required to wear whites - white t-shirts, white shorts, white skirts, white whatever. Never will you ever see any player at Wimbledon wearing colors. Wimbledon is going on right now in 2008. Check it out if it isn't too late.
Other major goof ups: The whole attitude stuff after each point is quite frankly silly. There are no replays, which is not realistic. And as far as I can remember, I have never seen anyone playing tennis with pants in grand slam events. It looks silly. The entire rival player idea is pathetic. The player's rival loses in the first round of every tournament, yet keeps rising up in the rankings rapidly. That's just plain impossible. There was no need for a rival scenario in the game. It just makes the game look silly. In the real world, a player's major rival is almost always from a different country. Federer-Nadal, Edberg-Becker, Graf-Seles...so on. Sampras-Agassi was one major exception.
If you are a female tennis fan, I also have to warn you that the female career mode has been made unnecessarily harder than the men's career mode. I don't think either career mode should be harder than the other.
But, the bottom line, is it fun to play? Definitely. For $30 (including taxes and shipping), I believe this game is absolutely worth the money. And I have to admit that this is still the best tennis PC game out there. Tennis Masters Series by Microids could have easily beaten this game. But what was lacking there were a lot options available in Top Spin. I hope Aspyr does not disappoint tennis fans with goof-ups like these the next time.
Rating: - Risk shots are near impossible
Gameplay is fun and challenging unlike Virtual Tennis 3 where the ball almost never goes out. Also the players in VT3 are constantly diving for the ball which ruins the gameplay. Graphics are decent, I like the realistic ads and scoreboard. But as mentioned already there are lots of frame rate issues. Only two complaints - I am unable to run at my native resolution of 1400x1050. Finally what really keeps this from being a great game is the ridiculously hard risk shots. They are so hard to pull off why even bother to put it in the game. In conclusion its a fun game to kill some time with but wouldve been great if they fixed the FPS issue and risk shots.
Rating: - Had a huge potential
This game does almost everything right, but it has also some issues that would make a 5-star rating unjustified:
1. Top Spin 2 has horrific FPS issues on the PC (even on high-end systems).
2. You can't save/open replay matches, and - unfortunately - it doesn't even replay points. Instead of showing you rallies and special moments, it displays your player with controllable emotions (which I find boring).
3. The game is a little too challenging on beginners at the start of the career, as well as a little too easy as you get to the very end (world rank 2 or 1). The latter is the consequence of the somewhat predictable A.I.
Also, you will find only 0-1 players online at a given point, which is not the game's fault but does disappoint a little.
Rating: - Top Spin 2 is not that great
Top spin 2 was not done well for the PC. I like sports game on the PC and image that top spin 2 would be great. It was a complete letdown. the grapics were shoddy the game play was bad. Stick with the xbox 360 version.
- A rich experience, once able
- Top Spin 2 is not that great
