Top Spin 4 - Xbox 360

Top spin 4,the latest in a series that spans since the original xbox, has gone with what is tried and true with them and makes another amazing game. Since I havent seen anywhere online, Im going to go into a bit about the online world tour. But 1st the general gameplay. *General Gameplay* + The player models look very good and very fluid. + FPS does not slow down often during gameplay. - There is never any lighting/weather change. Once I booted up the game, the 1st thing I did was play a match between Agassi and Sampras. The player models looked very strong ass I went into the game. Then I started to play. With playing, the controls seemed very confusing at first. I was always getting things like too lates and too soons and my stamina was completely drained by the end of the 1st point. After I got the controls down, the game started getting a lot more intense. I remember sitting jumping up when I get a point because the game was so close. I ended up losing the game after a 1:20 minute game. I just sat there pissed off, and I knew that this was going to be a game that I love because of things like this. *My Player* My player mode works similarily to other years, with going by months. One thing that I thought that was a great addition is that you level up your players stats whenever you use them in gameplay, not just during Career mode. The creating of models was very easy to use. Now for my favorite part of the game *World Tour Mode* World Tour Mode is an online "career" for your my player. You compete in tournaments with your my player against other people with a similar skill level (which is based on how many times you upgraded your my players stats) The lobbies are easy to go around and playing a game was the best part. I found that no matter how many games I played online, there was NO LAG! That was exciting for me because the online makes a game replayable for me, instead of just repeating the story line. After playing a bunch of games, and finishing top 5 on the Online Leaderboards, I realized how much fun and how much competition there will be between people online. *Conclusion* I give this game a 9.5 out of 10. Main points: + Graphics + AI Difficulty + World Tour + My Player - Lighting/Weather - Fans

This game is great. I downloaded the demo on the Xbox marketplace and was hooked. I decided to buy this game when I saw Amazon selling it for cheap. I have to say, this game is a lot of fun. I will tell you one thing though...this game is not easy, even in the normal setting. You have to be really good timing the ball. The game starts off with mediocre opponents until you reach the semifinals in a grand slam tournaments. Top players like Nadal, Novak, etc are very hard to beat. I had to create a player with easy setting to get the achievements and use a normal player for the rest of the game. The online game play is fun too. Again, if you cannot play well against top players in a grand slam in normal mode, you will have a very hard time playing against some online opponents. Overall, I think this game is great and worth the money if you really like playing tennis.

Pretty much, I'm not going to beat a dead horse here. The game is EPIC. Check 2K did an awesome job in actually giving the stadiums actual feeling. It is way better that the past Top Spin titles, as you couldn't tell you were in a frenzied environment. Most of the time, it felt like you were on a golf course with no one around. In this game, you actually FEEL like you are in the heat of battle, and as long rallies commence and continue, you feel great anticipation, and actually feel like you're fighting for every single point. That's a huge feat, and a great job. The controls are more fluid, not like last year's jumbled, and somewhat cheap, mess. Now, everything is streamlined, and definitely for the better as you don't have play ridiculous split-second mini-games of chance. It's now all about timing, and that's where it should be. Because players in real life do not have a meter that they need to get correct to hit the ball right, the have to time their shots to get the better power and technique to nail cross-court, ripping, shots, and this game does an excellent job at doing this. The atmosphere and the controls are huge pluses on the scale, and make this game really fun, and really challenging, to play. But, don't be fooled, there are still a couple of short-comings that needs to be addressed. Firstly, the controls are not very intuitive, and sometimes unresponsive. This make the game a little more trying on the nerves. I know a couple of times that after hitting a shot, I try to either; go to the center, or try to go back for a ball shot behind me, and the player seems "stuck". Other times, I have also noticed that I am jamming on a shot button, and the player just stands there, like I haven't pressed a thing. And still, running shots become even more difficult, as you might have a combination of the two, or both at the same time, and that can drive up the aggravation level. Another issue is that this game is carrying over the momentum system from last year's game, with some irritating results. If you don't know, the momentum system is a system in which once someone gaines an advantage, they seem to be a super-human form of themselves, that they can't miss shots, and that they can make impossible shots easier. If you've read about what I've just put down, you would see what could be the result, a friend and I have been the victim of such a thing in multiplayer, once someone gets a full-blown momentum shift, he is almost always unbeatable while you will be missing shots you had no problem hitting a couple of seconds ago. It's actually a major issue, as it could create a very unfair advantage (including in the harder stages) as you might end up dealing with a player, in the finals, with a huge surge of momentum, that'll only end if he makes a mistake, not you making him make one. This can be a very serious problem with the game, and something that needs to be evened out so that the person without full momentum can still stand a fighting chance (you know, like in real life). This should be that even though he has full momentum, he can still mishit and scratch his momentum back down to normal. Because, I don't know how many times in real life, even in the elite level, I have seen a player get full momentum on his side, then misses a shot, and all the sudden the other player starts gaining an advantage. As in other words, a real life game ebbs-and-flows, in this game the game ebbs one way and ends up staying that way (which is the wrong thing to do), this and the sometimes unintuitive controls hurts this game to me. Other small gripes: - No Wimbledon? Come on?! If you make a tennis game, could we PLEASE get Wimbledon, and all it's bleachy-white goodness? - No challenges. Again, the game changed considerably from the past, and now point challenges are now commonplace. It should've been inputted into the last game, and to not have point challenges is inexcusable and needs to be in any modern tennis game. - More hot female tennis players! (Come on, like I wouldn't want more hotties on my T.V. screen) So, in closing, although I seem to be focusing a little too much on some of the negatives, don't be misled, this game is AMAZING. It just needs little tweaks (and hopefully will be updated and fixed in upcoming patches), and this game will be one of the best games ever! I am a proud owner of this game, and if the fixes occur, this game will be a classic!

Topspin four is awsome a must have if your a tennis fan

海外版だからといって何もレビューがないというのもどうかと思い投稿しました。他社のゲームとの比較は購入者の意見や動画サイトを参考にしてこれがいちばんかなと思いました。このシリーズは1、2は経験済みで3から操作が変った為足踏み状態となったが、3をやってみて良かったので4も購入してみました。海外版はこれが初めてではないので何の抵抗もありませんでした。過去に購入したソフトはすべて動作しましたし、このソフトに限っては国内仕様を買っても簡素な説明書以外は画面上すべて英語表記となるのでどれも同じかと思われます。単語さえ理解できればなんとか遊べます。 キャリアモードでは自分の分身であるキャラづくりからはじまるわけですが、顔の造形プログラムのようなシステムがあるおかげで時間さえかければ美顔は造れるようになっています。あらかじめ40種類の基本モデルが用意されていますがほとんど美顔はありません。アジア系もあるが男女壊滅状態です。（笑） 体型は大雑把な感じで細かい調整はできないようになっています。そのため男性はあまり気になりませんが女性を造る時にスリーサイズの微調整ができず、何人造っても似たような体型となります。（シリーズ3の方は細かい調整可能）でもそれが悪いというわけではなくテニスプレイヤーとして理想にちかい体型は保っています。 ウェア、シューズ、ラケット、用具類は実在ブランドのものが多数用意されていて、髪型他、いろいろなテニスファッションも楽しめます。 メインであるキャリアモードはコーチを雇い、実践形式のトレーニングの中で課題を消化しながら本番も交えてスキルを習得していく形式になっています。習得達成後はなにかしらの特殊能力がつくのもおもしろい。（例えば○×のエキスパートとか）その他キャリアの一環としてファンサービスのイベントなどもあります。現実ではありえない奇想天外なミニゲームみたいなものがないというところも自然的でいいかなと思いました。 操作方法はシリーズ3とほぼ同じでタイミング形式をとっていますが3の時よりやりやすくなっています。テニスゲームの核の部分であるラケットでボールを弾くというところのシステムですが結果的にこのタイミング形式の採用は良かったと思っています。 ラケットとボールが触れた瞬間の状態とその後の結果が絶妙に造られていて、打ち返したボールの行方や強弱に納得できる感じがします。（物理的に） このタイミング形式はプレイヤーの意識にも簡単操作で行えるようになっています。例えば意識的に高確率でコート内に入る球を打ちたい時の操作方法、あるいは強く打ちたいこの一打という時の操作方法などがシステム的に容易となっています。操作が慣れても失敗しちゃったりしますがそれがまた現実的ともいえます。実際のテニスでもうまく捌けて狙ったつもりでもコート外へという事はざらにあります。こういった現実感を巧みにとり入れたところにゲームの深みを与えています。 キャラのモーションは上級者の動きと同じでやたらと格好いい動きをします。特にボレーアクションなどは見ていて面白いと思いました。それは試合中にとどまらず休憩前にラケットを地面にポンと手前に投げたり置いてみたりいろいろやってくれます。書いているときりがないですが製作側の思い入れとかセンスの良さを感じます。（通路では係員がくしゃみをする事も） グラフィック、音楽、効果音、すっきりしたメニューまわり、すぐれた操作感、かなりの完成度をもった良作といえましょう。もし文句をつけるとしたらモーション追加とか変わったウェア（セーラー服とかメイド服など）などの追加要素要求しか思い浮かびません。 難易度は5段階、視点も6種類、テニスに興味があれば誰でも楽しめるのではないでしょうか、とにかく次回作を期待したくなるシリーズのひとつです。

Great game that was quickly shipped, in good condition and that satisfied my wants. I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys tennis and playing on the xbox360.