Review: The Pete Sampras of tennis games.
Now in its fourth home console iteration, Virtua Tennis is no stranger to fending off the competition. Sega’s flagship racket game has seen off the likes of TopSpin and Smash Court Tennis over the years. But it’s 2009 (as the new title affirms) and there’s Wii Sports and EA’s Grand Slam Tennis to contend with. Can Virtua Tennis change it up enough to feel fresh or has the tennis genre gone as far as it can?
Feature: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
When you hear the name Rockstar, you instantly think of the granny-grenading, cop-killing, car-jacking crime-a-thon that is GTA. Take out the skyscrapers, hip-hop and chicken shops, rewind the clock a few hundred years, and you’ve got Red Dead Redemption.
Games and hardware speculation set for next week.
E3 2009 is just one week away. With internet blogging and Twitter growing even larger – and game exec’s mouths getting looser – it’s easier than ever to predict what we’ll be seeing in the headlines come the week of June 1.
