Nick Kyrgios of Australia is a topspin maverick in tennis, a controversial person like Happy Gilmour, shamelessly beat his drums like a red basketball sneaker strap. There is no march together. Trampling on Wimbledon’s stuffy, pure white tradition. Matchpoint: With his prominence on the cover of Tennis Championships, developer Torus Games’ debut tennis simulation is finally ready to rock things towards the stagnant tennis genre. Was born. Smooth yet unbalanced playstyle, non-stimulating career mode, and surprisingly limited multiplayer support are the only features Matchpoint shares with provocative cover stars, but it’s a top priority for possible wasted. It means being a sensation.
To its honor, Matchpoint’s clean control settings make it very easy to pick up. The movement of the player is greatly assisted, so simply move the thumbstick in the general direction of the returned ball and it will automatically guide you to the ideal position to fit the ball. This allows you to focus head-on on your opponent on the court. Here you can steer a dinner plate-sized reticle to get a standard array of accurate tennis shots at the level of bordering the Jedi beyond Jokavic. Level of accuracy.
It’s certainly a reliable and rally system that gives you a lot of freedom, but it’s also a system that’s a bit too easy to learn because it’s all rewarding and very low risk. The windows for timing shots are very generous and there are no penalties for overcooking shots or serves. Perhaps you have a computerized ball machine with unforced errors than when you played for about 20 hours. It’s almost unobtrusive to actually hit the ball off the line, and you can make a cross-court shot when it’s not possible. Angle without hitting the eyelids. Yes, Matchpoint makes you feel like some kind of hard-tuned tennis terminator … but when you’re confident that you can nail a pass shot from almost anywhere, with a spaghetti-stretched tennis racket. It will be a rally with the same tension. ..
The ball is too easy
Being able to draw a line very easily also has a negative effect on Matchpoint’s carrier mode, as the progress system looks almost completely unnecessary. The player I created started with a modest level of shot power and spin, but his accuracy was laser guided from the beginning. So from the first day of the tour, we’ve hit about 50 clear winners for everyone who landed. The size of the aiming reticle and the unmistakable ability to hit it are consistent, and even if it’s difficult to dial up to the highest setting, I’ve plunged into seven consecutive tournament wins and a career. Became the best in the world in the first few months of the game; this is despite completing only one of the training mini-games that boosts statistics along the way.
Indeed, these training mini-games are either quite mediocre (such as when Simon says the game needs to be played on ground stroke) or are clumsyly implemented (like a drill to provide an ace). ) So I’m happy to be able to skip it. You face the receiver standing in a very large area of the service box. They may be signing). However, completing these simple training drills was almost as deep as the management aspects of Matchpoint’s career, and I felt that there wasn’t much investment in the success of the player. There are no sponsorship contracts or injury issues to consider. Instead, it basically moves from an unauthorized tennis tournament to the next, robbing more silverware than the sticky finger butler at Buckingham Palace.
At least, I think the trophy is silver because Matchpoint doesn’t actually display the trophy. The player animations are smooth and the courtside details are crisp, but each tournament has no noticeable lack of life and immersiveness, and all tournaments culminate in the same static results screen. There are no post-final trophy presentations, handshakes between players, statistical overlays of broadcast presentations, and only a handful of faces in the crowd are reused so often that a stadium ticket “buy one” It will be like “two free”. Promotion of the same triplet set.
Similar appearance restrictions apply to the player you create. With just a handful of heads and haircuts to choose from and no options for customizing service motions or exertion growls, it’s almost impossible to produce anyone other than John or Jane Smith in Generica. To make matters worse, each of the 18 Matchpoint licensed professionals wears gear from brands such as Nike and Adidas, but the clothes and equipment available to players are completely unnamed. is. It is a bitter medicine to swallow when you step into the center coat surrounded by the billboards of famous brands such as ASICS and Wilson. Wearing a T-shirt and shorts, it looks fresh from your mother’s sewing machine. A branded tennis racket that looks like it was purchased from a dangerous ad on Facebook.
The play of the weak
While you may come across real-world guns such as Daniil Medvedev and Taylor Fritz on the men’s tour and Victoria Azarenka and Madison Keys on the women’s tour, the overwhelming number of matches in a matchpoint career are fictitious opponents. Play against. It’s pretty hard to distinguish these carbon copy competitors because they’re cut from the same restricted character creation toolset as Avatar, but Matchpoint gives at least some strengths and weaknesses to each. Try to inject some personality into it, which can be revealed during the match.
These features cannot be intuitively identified, but are spelled out by a distracting text splash that pops up in the upper right corner of the screen during the rally. For example, one opponent tends to get impatient and rush the net during long exchanges. On the other hand, another opponent may start servicing harder as he gets an ace in a service game. It’s an interesting idea on paper, but in reality it has little effect on the approach to each point, so it felt like an artificial way to force strategic changes that weren’t really needed. .. Each AI opponent I faced could have had the weaknesses of a red velvet cupcake. This is because they were always out of position before bibing another fully placed winner a few millimeters inside. Base line.
Desperate for a bit of a challenge, I eventually tried to completely disable the aiming marker in the options menu, but setting the target just by feeling shifts the difficulty of the shot in the opposite direction, making it more conservative and exhausting. It became a play style. He knocked the ball back toward the center of the court until his opponent inevitably made a mistake and quickly became dull. I wish the developers could find some kind of compromise between the superhuman sharp shootings brought about by the aiming markers and the vague guesswork that accompanies going without them.
Of course, you’ll find quite a lot of nuances when fighting human opponents. As a multiplayer game, Matchpoint is at its best as you can theoretically play against players with the same sideline shearing skills as you. Unfortunately, there are very few multiplayer options. Online play is limited to casual or ranked one-off matches and there is no option to create or participate in tournaments. To make matters worse, all online and off multiplayer matches have signed up for tennis club membership, but are strictly singles, as if you accidentally visited the eHarmony registration page.
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It’s hard to understand that the tennis game released in 2022 lacks such fun and expected features in this genre in the form of double play, but it’s a matchpoint design call that needs to be challenged. Not just. It also includes 13 licensed male players, why they have to play the qualifying set at the start of every tournament in career mode, even though they are ranked number one in the world. A woman who is wondering if there are only people. And, of course, the most ironic call I want to challenge: why wasn’t I given the ability to challenge any of the referee’s calls? The Line Call Challenge has been part of professional tennis for over 15 years, so it’s strange that it’s not included here. Especially if the matchpoint line judge tends to miss more calls than the dead man’s phone.
