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Matchpoint Tennis Championships Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Australia’s Nick Kyrgios is the top spun maverick of the tennis world, a controversy-courting Happy Gilmore-like figure who doesn’t so much as march to the beat of his own drum as strap on a pair of bright-red basketball sneakers and shamelessly stomp all over Wimbledon’s stuffy, all-white traditions. His prominent placement on the cover of Matchpoint: Tennis Championships sets the expectation that developer Torus Games’ debut tennis simulation is poised to finally shake things up for the stagnating tennis genre… but sadly, that hasn’t proven to be the case. A smooth yet imbalanced style of play, uninspiring career mode, and surprisingly limited multiplayer support means the only trait that Matchpoint shares with its provocative cover star is an overriding sense of squandered potential. To its credit, Matchpoint’s uncluttered control setup makes it supremely easy to pick up. Your player’s movement is heavily assisted so that you only need to nudge the thumbstick in the general direction of a returned ball and they’ll be automatically guided to the ideal position in order to meet it. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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This allows you to keep your focus squarely on your opponent’s side of the court, where you can steer around a dinner plate-sized reticle and pull off a standard array of tennis shots with a level of pinpoint accuracy that goes beyond Djokavic to border on Jedi levels of precision. It’s a rally system that’s certainly reliable and offers you plenty of freedom, but it’s also one that’s a bit too easy to master since it’s all reward and very little risk. The window for timing your shots is exceedingly generous, and you’re not really penalized in any way for overcooking a shot or serve. There are probably computerized ball machines that have made more unforced errors than I have in my 20 or so hours played – you almost have to go out of your way to actually hit the ball outside of the lines, and can pull off crosscourt shots at impossible angles without batting an eyelid. So yes, Matchpoint successfully makes me feel like some sort of hard-tuned tennis terminator… But when you’re confident you can nail a passing shot from almost anywhere it results in rallies that have about as much tension as a tennis racquet strung with spaghetti.

Enter Into  the world of professional Tennis.

Tennis is one of the most popular sports on the planet, but publishers are having a nightmare capitalising on its potential. French outfit Nacon has already had a couple of attempts with the two Tennis World Tour titles – and the two Australian Open endorsed entries, AO Tennis – but now it’s the turn of Kalypso Media to serve up its own take on the historical sport. Having had our Hawkeye on Matchpoint: Tennis Championships for quite some time, does it hit a perfect forehand winner – or double-fault like so many before it? The biggest challenge for developers when it comes to tennis titles is building a large enough library of animations to accommodate a multitude of gameplay scenarios. If you think about a real tennis match on the television, there are an enormous amount of possibilities that can occur, all pertaining to the player’s body position in relation to the ball. Whether it’s Novak Djokovic contorting himself for impossible sliced serve returns or Polish superstar Iga Świątek playing top-spin passing shots down the line, there’s a lot that a game needs to account for in order to make rallies look realistic. Settlement Survival

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Australian developer Torus Games worked tirelessly in the motion capture studio to make its effort feel as fluid as possible, and it does take a small step forward from Nacon’s aforementioned attempts. There’s a lot less of the warping that’s common in other tennis titles, because the developer’s been able to assemble a library of animations large enough to cater to a wider variety of scenarios. That doesn’t mean awkward animations don’t occur, they’re just less common, and the game ultimately feels more fulfilling on the pad as a result. Rather than attempt to ape genre flag-bearer Top Spin 4, the studio’s instead gone for a simpler shot system. You use the face buttons to vary between slice, top-spin, flat shots, and lobs – with a couple of modifiers on the shoulder buttons allowing you to prioritise volleys and drop shots. There’s much less focus on timing, however, enabling you to concentrate much more on placement and positioning. This means you can ultimately turn the tables on servers by slowing the pace of the ball with slice shots, bringing them into the net, and then hitting those all-important passing shots like in real-life.

Master all strokes and shots in grand style.

It actually feels very satisfying when you architect a winning point like a professional player. While you can have some success just hitting the buttons and running around, you’re rewarded for understanding shot selections, and knowing when to use a top spin volley or slug it out on the baseline. In fact, it’s actually quite fun paying attention to your opponent’s movement – as in real tennis – and picking your spot at the last possible second to put the ball out of their reach. For those who want a serious bit of tennis, there’s been a couple of Tennis World Tour and AO Tennis games each, but none have set the world on fire. We fondly remember the likes of Top Spin and wonder just what has gone wrong. But now Matchpoint: Tennis Championships is here to save the day. Or at least it hopes to. Developed by Torus Games and Published by Kalypso Media, Matchpoint: Tennis Championships aims to provide a realistic tennis experience. Jump into career mode, and after creating your character it’s up to you how to achieve your goal of becoming the world’s number one. Mage and Monsters

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That means each week you’ll have important decisions to make about your activities. You might be offered up an exhibition match, for example, but might it be worth training instead to target one of your weak points? Ultimately, it’s your performance on the court that will determine the growth of your character and their rewards. Over time, your stats will develop, allowing you to overcome tougher opponents. And what’s more, you’ll obtain new gear – namely rackets and shoes – that will boost your on-court abilities. Become formidable enough, and you’ll be able to tackle the toughest tournaments and championships. That’s where you’ll really make a name for yourself. There’s more to Matchpoint: Tennis Championships than just a career mode though. There’s a quick match option, of course, where you can take control of one of 16 real-life international tennis stars or your custom created avatar, as well as training. There’s also local and online multiplayer, with the latter being cross-platform. Needless to say, there’s a mode to meet everyone’s needs.

Study your rival’s moves and tactics.

It’s the on-court action that gives Matchpoint: Tennis Championships the advantage over its competition, however, even though it has some issues. This is a tennis game that’s easy to pick up, but hard to master. As ever, you move your character with the left analogue stick, and use the face buttons to perform one of four shot types – top spin, flat, slice or lob. There are also a couple of shot modifiers available, giving you even more control of how you return the ball. The problem is that the enthusiasm you’ll feel on the sticks is not replicated on the screen. Tennis is an energetic sport that’s as much about emotion as it is action, and yet you’ll never see a single fist-pump or gesture to the crowd when you hit an all-important winner down the line. In fact, the game is bizarrely stagnant overall: the crowd will politely applaud after each point, but there are no gasps or moments of tension as rallies develop – and even the limited commentary often fails to point out when you’ve got match point, instead settling for more reusable lines focused on set points.

The lack of overall atmosphere really kills the thunderous enthusiasm that you traditionally see on a professional tennis court, and with Australian bad boy Nick Kyrgios on the cover, it’s even more pronounced: you can’t challenge calls with Hawkeye, there are no celebratory transitions as players walk back to their seats, and that aforementioned animation library does begin to lose its lustre the more you play. Seeing all players stretch in exactly the same way for an out-of-reach passing shot every single time just kills the illusion a little bit, and none of the professional players included have their characteristic serves or receiving sways.The ability to paint the lines so effortlessly is also detrimental to Matchpoint’s career mode, since it makes the progression system seem almost entirely unnecessary. While my created player began with modest levels of shot power and spin, his accuracy was laser-guided from the outset. That meant that from day one on the tour I was hitting about 50 clear winners for every one that landed wide. The size of the aiming reticle and your unerring ability to hit it remains consistent throughout, and even with the difficulty dialed up to the highest setting.

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I stormed my way to seven consecutive tournament victories and was world number one within the first few months of my career; this despite having completed just one of the stat-boosting training mini-games along the Way. Admittedly it’s something of a blessing that these training mini-games can be skipped, since they’re either utterly mundane (like when you have to play a game of Simon Says for groundstrokes) or clumsily implemented (like the drill for serving aces that puts you up against a receiver standing so wide of the service box they may as well be signing autographs). But completing these simple training drills is about as deep as the management aspect of Matchpoint’s career goes, which made me feel pretty uninvested in my player’s success. There are no sponsorship deals to consider or injury niggles to take into account, and instead you basically just roll from one indistinct, unlicensed tennis tournament to the next, snatching up more silverware than a sticky-fingered butler in Buckingham Palace. At least I assume the trophies are silver, because Matchpoint doesn’t actually ever show them to you. While the animations of the players are smooth and the courtside detail is crisp, there’s a noticeable lack of life and no real sense of occasion imbued in each competition, with every tournament culminating in the same static result screen. ABZU

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