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Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

  • Summary: Top Spin 2 serves up 24 top-ranked athletes (Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and more), a wide variety of events including all four Grand Slam tournaments, a multi-season career, and a set of new risk and advanced shots. In detailed, real-world venues such as Wimbledon, gamers can create realistic player models and their own on-court style with slices, drops, top spins, lobs, and drives against the tennis world’s best-of-the-best. For experienced players, Top Spin 2 adds depth to gameplay with a number of risk shots and advanced controls, giving gamers the ability to pick apart their opponent piece-by-piece. If hard-core competition isn't your thing, take it easy and enjoy multiplayer party games, like Splash Court, Wall Breaker, and Time Bomb. The game supports up to four players on a single PC, and two players over the Internet or a LAN. [Aspyr Media] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. This is a big, tight game that's just lacking in greatness or spark. [Feb 2007, p.78]
  2. Still, Top Spin 2 is a decent, enjoyable tennis game for a modest $19.99 price tag. [May 2007, p.70]
  3. Not only is the game accessible, it has a couple of novel game-modes to kick back with and offers a pretty exhausting career modes too. It's also quite technical, but it reveals itself in layers, a bit like "Pro Evo." [Mar 2007, p.72]
  4. Despite the issues I mentioned, I had a blast playing Top Spin 2 - and so did my kids!

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. PeteT.
    9
    Great if not best tennis game ever on the pc! It only took a super system to make it playable, though. Any agp video card system will not handle this game well at all, you seem to need a pci-e video card system, and probably duo-core cpu to go along with it. When you have the power, this game is simply awesome and the most realistic tennis sim ever, in every way. Expand
  2. HunterS.
    7
    The game definitely has its problems that are carried from the Xbox game, plus few other issues such as choppy animation and unresponsive controls at times. However, it is still a decent Tennis game, and considering the lack of good Tennis games on the PC, you should not miss this one if you are a fan of the sport. Expand
  3. TonyM.
    4
    HUGE disappointment compared to Top Spin 1, and the also new Virtua Tennis 3. Even on a high-end system, it is mostly unplayable due to a very choppy game engine, let alone the complexity of the "extra" shots that would add to the realism. Avoid this if like to play smooth action sims! Expand
  4. ScreeGee
    3
    I just don't understand what happened. Well, maybe I do. Where the xbox version was nice, the pc version must be a totally UNoptimized rushed port. The game play is so choppy, on a 3.2 ghz, 2 gb ram, nvidia 7800 gs system, that it is 98% unplayable and therefore a totally unejoyable waste of 20 hard-earned bucks. Avoid at all costs, and have fun with Virtua Tennis 3 instead (much more simplistic, but at least it works well and smooth). Collapse