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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.

Virtua Tennis 3 screenshots
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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.