January 19, 2007
New Virtua Tennis 3 Assets and Details
SEGA has released a new batch of Virtua Tennis 3
assets and announcement updates on the new mini-games and World Tour mode.
Virtua Tennis 3 will be available on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PSP on March 20,
2007.
Click here to see all new Virtua Tennis 3 screenshots.
World Tour Mode
Create and customize your own player with
numerous outfits, equipment, play styles and looks. Pick somewhere to live and
then develop your players skills through training and coaching. Enter
competitions held all around the globe and rise through the ranks to the number
one spot! The enhanced World Tour calendar includes emails and improved visuals
which help you to plan your training sessions and tournaments. Interact with the
tennis stars to form rivalries and friendships as you proceed through the tour.
You can also enter the new Tennis Academy to hone your skills to perfection as
well as practice your serves, volleys, footwork and strokes with 12 fantastic
mini games!
New Mini-Games in multiplayer Court Mode and
World Tour Mode
With 10 brand new mini-games, and the return of
two classic mini-games, players and their friends will be entertained for hours
in some competitive and highly addictive tennis action. Players will also blaze
through the season training and building up their custom created player in 12
different mini-games in World Tour mode to compete in the top tournaments in the
world.
Balloon Smash
- Pop the balloons with a pinpoint accurate
serve to gain points on the court! - Helps to improve your ability to control power
for different serve placements. - Placement of the balloons gets more difficult
as the levels increase, as do the points required and points each balloon is
worth. - A successful game will result in Service stats
increasing.
Panic Balloon
- Serve the ball to strike the balloons and when
the pop watch out for the ball being returned in different directions. Hit the
ball back to pop more balloons until they have all gone! - Improve your footwork and ability to judge the
return of shots. - Different balloons will result in different
actions when struck, as the game progresses some balloons will not let you
know where the ball is going until it hits! - A successful game will increase your footwork
stats enabling faster court coverage, turning and net rushing.
Court Curling
- Knock the stones in to the different scoring
zones to reach a required points total in this original take on curling which
helps improve your ground strokes… - Stones can be knocked into three different
scoring zones, or a dead zone which sends the stone back to where it started.
- Play carefully though, in the later levels
some stones cause negative scores! - A successful game results in increased Stroke
stats and an ability to adjust the angle and power of your stoke.
Super Bingo
- A classic game of bingo with a tennis twist!
Add a tennis racket and the odd bomb to boot and you get a great way improves
your groundstroke and volleys! - Strike the numbers scrolling across a board at
the back of the court to complete your bingo "card"! - Hit the speed board to increase the speed of
the board, useful if you desperately need that one number to come round that
bit quicker… - Successful completion results in increased
Groundstroke and Volley skills.
Count Mania
- Strike the ball into the numbered squares in
the court to count up to a set number before the timer runs out! - Hit the different colored squares in
sequential order to count up to the required number. - The number to be achieved rises with the
levels of the game. - Successful completion results in an increase
of Groundstroke and volley stats allowing more effective play on court!
Feeding Time
- Save the meat chops from the advancing
alligators! Hit the ball against the spinning fans that have the alligators
leads attached to reel the reptiles back under control. You need to keep those
fans spinning! - The alligators will chew bits of the chop off
at a time if they get to it, but you can stun them by hitting them with the
balls! - The harder the ball hits the fan the longer
the alligators will be held back for. - Successful chop defense will result in an
increase in volleying stats…
Prize Defender
- Protect valuable prizes from the machines
firing balls at them to try and knock them over. Do this by volleying away the
balls they fire at the prizes. - Machines can move around and fire at different
angles in order to topple the prizes! - Player must save a set amount of prizes but
can afford the odd casualty. - Successful defense of the prizes results in
increased volley stats.
Virtua Tennis 3 (PS3, X360, PSP)
The Virtua Tennis series has been well-received
by critics and fans for its “ease of play but difficult to master” gameplay.
With Virtua Tennis 3, the series returns with enhanced photo-realistic graphics
and advanced player animations that perfectly match the behavior and mannerisms
of individual professional athletes. Next-generation systems allow gamers to see
the most detailed expressions on the faces of their selected players as they
battle to win heated tournaments around the world. Improvements to the game’s AI
have also upped the challenge to becoming the top seed of the tennis world.