Virtua Tennis 4 First Screenshots Released
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Maybe Virtua Andy Murray can win a Virtua Grand Slam?
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Playstation has your solution for those long, cold winter nights between the Grand Slams.
Sega, Playstation’s parent company, released its first screenshots of Virtua Tennis 4 on Tuesday, showing a staggering attention to detail and realistic tennis action. The game is due out some time in 2011.
The accompanying press release claims that “it’s about the angle of the racquet, the spin and speed of the ball and the power of the shot.” With advanced motion sensors of PlayStation Move, the game can track movements on the controller to measure accuracy of a player’s shots. In addition, Virtua Tennis 4 will support 3D technology to ramp up the realism.
The screenshots released of an Andy Murray- Roger Federer match are  extremely impressive. Federer looks a lot more like himself than in he did in Virtua Tennis 3, where he sort of resembled a sickly Antonio Banderas.
Virtua Tennis, which apparently is prejudice against the letter L, began in 1999 on Sega, later ported to Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance. In 2005, IGN ranked Virtua Tennis at the #91 video game of all time.
Its sequel emerged in 2002 as Tennis 2K2 in the United States and featured female players for the first time.
Virtua Tennis 3 was released in 2009 across multiple platforms including PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Much like NCAA College Football’s series, Virtua Tennis 3 allows you to create a player and enter a “dynasty mode,’ where you try and take him or her from rookie to the top of the heap.
Federer, Rafael Nadal and Murray grace the game’s new cover, proving once again that having a hard-to-pronounce name keeps you from the really big endorsements (I’m looking at you, Novak Djokovic).
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Posted by Nick on 8/17/2010 4:47:47 PM
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