2K Czech’s Top Spin 4, with its fancy TV-style cut-scenes, accurate play style animation for some of the sport’s greatest players and scarily well-captured oohs and aahs from the crowd at matches, takes a different route from most tennis games. While Wii Sports distilled the game down to its basic matter of win or lose and at the other end of the scale Top Spin 3 left players facing an epic learning curve with its intricate control system, Top Spin 4 sets out to tackle that most elusive of tennis’s draws: the experience of actually watching and playing it.
And to its enormous credit it comes fairly close to doing just that. After spending a good few hours with Top Spin 4’s career mode, what comes across is not the complexity of the control system or the challenge inherent in winning every point, but rather a sense of the real drama of tennis.
Serena, all I can say here is “Serena”!!!!!!!!