Virtua Tennis World Tour (PlayStation Portable, 2005)

GREAT GAME FOR THE PRICE-I BOUGHT THIS ONE ON PSP AND PS3--LOOKS VERY REALISTIC-GREAT PLAY ACTION--ALL AROUND GOOD GAME

This is my first PSP Game. I'm happy with it because it has beginning levels of play that are building/improving my game skills. The joystick is used a lot in this game. Training games include:

Stomper: Improves footwork
Tank Attack: Improves stroke
Disc Shooter: Improves stroke
Bulls Eye: Improves volley
Danger Flags: Improves footwork
Pin Crasher: Improves serve
Prize Sniper: Improves serve
Alien Force: Improves volley

The skill building games are timed. I haven't tried one that I don't like. I'd say that if you already have total control over your PSP's joystick and other buttons then you'd move along at a quicker pace than I am. However, I'm still having a blast playing it!

The music choices are pretty varied and if you don't like any of them then just turn the volumn way down. When you create your player you can choose hair color, skin color, clothes, racquet, height and weight. If you choose one of the pro players then you go with how they really are in real life.

Having played PS2 for a few years now and going to the PSP I'd say I'm glad I bought the PSP and this Virtual Tennis World Tour game. It's fun, I'm learning and building PSP controler skills and can see that it's going to be a while before I move through this whole game. Even then I'd start it over again!

I got this game at a great price, so I don't blame the seller. It is marginally inferior to Virtua Tennis 3, but still okay for the money. I have Virtua Tennis 3, and it is more enjoyable. My issue is that the game says I have insufficient memory for saving, when I have plenty of memory on the card I am using, and other games save just fine. I have read about this happening to other people with this game, and the consesus is that the problem is with the age of the game, faulty memory sticks (which mine is not), newer PSPs (which I have), and Sega.

Haven't played many tennis games lately, but I can't complain about this one, wrt graphics, motion, and challenge. I enjoy the challenge of creating your own player and trying to increase his/her abilities in order to compete against pros "on tour". The training and challenge games are a little quirky but the game is a 10 in my book. Looking forward to playing against others ad hoc or via wireless.

This version of the game is almost exactly the same one as the Dreamcast Tennis 2k02 game, which i also own. The poly count is lower but the spirit is in there, so it's still an extremely enjoyable game.

The aded challenges are cool too, they add up to a great 1 player experience.

I didn't try Multiplayer yet.

ONE PROBLEM: It does not seem to like my Sony 4GB Memory Stick Duo card. It says it doesn't have enough space for the file save (192KB) when it certainly has almost 3GB of space. This is a software bug I believe.