Video Games : Top Spin 3

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: 2K Sports
EAN: 0710425343728
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: 2K Games
Manufacturer: 2K Games
Model: 34372
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: 2K Games
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Sales Rank: 425
Studio: 2K Games

Features:

Complete Wii Functionality
Play With and Against Real Stars
Fun Party Games
Easy to Pick up and Play
New Split-Screen Mode

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:

Top Spin 3 brings the fun, action packed excitement of tennis to your console with authentic features including signature styles and expressions for over 20 top ranked players, more than 40 real world venues, jaw-dropping graphics via all-new Evolutionary Visuals, and much more. Grab your racquet and prepare to be immersed in every game, set, and match in the most realistic and exciting tennis experience. Are you up to the challenge?

Key Features

Complete Wii Functionality-Through the Wii Remote, a player's forehands, backhands and serves are perfectly mirrored by the game's realistic swing motions.
Play With and Against Real Stars-The only full-packaged tennis game on the Wii featuring 16 licensed players on 10 real-world venues such as Roland Garros, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open.
Fun Party Games-Hilarious mini-games for single and multi-players are a blast while improving your technique. With four difficulty settings, everyone can be part of the action.
Easy to 'Pick up and Play-Intuitive controls that feel like swinging a racquet and up to 10 in-game tutorials make it easy for gamers of all skill levels to master.
Embark on the Road to Glory Mode- Fully immerse yourself in an ambitious career mode that mimics a player's rise through the ranks through 11 challenging tournament events.
New Split-Screen Mode-Invite your friends over and experience full wide screen action with single or doubles and up to four different players.

Evolutionary Visuals
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Product Description:
Compete against the pros with Top Spin 3. Play online or offline to rise in the ranks against current top ranked professional players. This is a visually and physically realistic tennis experience. Using next generation technology, gameplay and graphics, Top Spin 3 features dynamic weather changes, evolutionary player visuals and comprehensive online offerings. With a unique user-generated component, you can also use new player creator features that include free-form body sculpting, makeup and tattoos.

Create matches online and test your skills against friends or other ranked players around the world

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Good Exersize but A Little Frustrating
I played Top Spin on the XBOX at a friends house and loved it. So when I got a wii and found out that there was Top Spin 3 available I got it without reading a review. I like the game but I understand the negative comments given so far. Here's my break down of the game.

Tutorial: Limited. You have to figure the game out by trial and error. It pretty much tells you swing, serve, and volley basics and then you're on your own.

Menus: Annoying music. Especially the opening song. Navigating through the game is intuitive.

Game play ground strokes: Hitting a cross-court shot on the run is pretty difficult. But I love the strategy and the ability to hit drop-shots and lobs. I can hit slices and top spin shots. Sometimes, my player backs up instead of turning and running which is pretty annoying. It's hard to judge whether I need to prepare for a backhand or a forehand sometimes and body serves are almost imposible to judge. I have gotten hit many times in a match. I have a lot of trouble judging where to stop and swing and 50% of the time I overrun the spot that I need to stop.

Serving and returning: I'd love to be able to hit kick serves, slice serves, flat ones up the middle; but I just can't figure it out. The fastest I can get Andy Roddick to serve is about 129mph. But some dude named Cummings aced me with a 150mph that makes no since. My guys gets aced all the time with pretty slow serves but I rarely ace the computer.

Volleying: Just plain hard. But then so is the case in real life.

Road to Glory: This is the best part of the game in my opinion. You work your way up to the grand slams and then it gets really hard. It's kind of weird playing women when I'm playing a man in a grand slam. It's even weirder that some woman with pajama bottoms and very short shirt (covering a very untennis player like chest, sorry Serena) would be my opponent in a grand slam. But even more wierd is that she's serving up aces at 125mph and Andy Roddick can't! But it's still fun and you can save your progress and try again if you fail to win.

The doubles are alot of fun but playing singles against someone is weird becase a player has to be on the far end were everything is kind of small and opposite (it doesn't split screen like in Wii Sports). There are also some party games that I havent tried out but overall I have gotten alot of exersize with this game and the difficulty of the slams keep me constantly searching for a solution to defeating the computer with a slow moving and, apparently inferior, Andy Roddick avatar.

Rating:

- I do not like this
I think the game should work with your movements. If you move right it should move right, if you move left it should move left. Instead you have to use the wii nunchuck to contol movement. It should be like the wii sports tennis where your character moves side to side with your movements. I like the graphics & the fact you can play on different surfaces but I can't even serve the ball. I am still waiting for my son to help me with this. They took the enjoyment of this game by making it to complicated. I could see if they had every shot you hit come back, but to be worried about moving the player with the nunchuck, forget it. The best thing I can say is the graphics are good. I hope wii comes out with a tennis game that we can use the miis on new surfaces & have the ability to play one on one.

Rating:

- No left hand option and other lacks
I didn't understand why 2K developed a so WII weak version of Top Spin on a console with so many opportunities to use motion control...
On Top Spin there is no career mode, no player creator, no left hand option, no online play.

We can only find some simulation. And that's all for this simple game.

Rating:

- This game calls for/teaches real skill...
I carefully read a few reviews before purchasing this game, and I suggest you do so as well. First off, after some regretable language while getting used to the game, my husband and I really enjoy Top Spin 3. I think because it's not quite a "gamer's" game. If you want a tennis game where you can sit on the couch, just move your hand a little, don't have to worry too much about position, then stick with the Wii's Pez-like people version. If you want to train your brain to think about where to position the ball and your serve, how to use two remotes at once (the regular Wii-mote and the Nunchuck are necessary), to experience how tennis plays on different surfaces, compete in numerous tournaments, and run around your game room like a maniac, then Top Spin 3 is for you. We're actually using it as an indoor workout, and a way to train our brains for outdoor tennis as well. It's not quite the same as the real thing -- I mean, who uses a Nunchuck in real tennis?! But when I play for real, I now think a lot about position and strategy. No, you can't play online. No, you can't create your own player. No, you can't play left handed. That's why we're rating it a 4, so the next generation will hopefully be corrected. You can save matches you've won, which is great. And there are tons of players to choose from, so you can even be a player with different skill sets; e.g., great server or fast runner or great volleyer. I hope this review really helps you. Enjoy!

Rating:

- Wow...lots better than Wii tennis!
While Wii Tennis is great fun, especially for "newbies" who haven't seen it before, it doesn't offer much control. Topspin3 DOES! It takes a bit to master (I'm still working on the service motion), but it's great fun. Find a player who matches your "style" of tennis and let 'er rip!

Graphics are much better than the Wii Sports version -- no Lego figures this time, but real approximations of Becker, Roddick, Sharapova, etc.


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