1. IrishChai

   10

   The hardest thing about this game is by far and large adapting to the controls. I'm a very avid tennis player and fan of professional tennis, and I have to say from life experience that this is the most accurate tennis game I've ever played. The game advises to use slow and easy full swings (using the Wiimote Plus), and that takes some getting used to, but once you start to do it consistently you'll be able to plan your shots with remarkable precision. It is very important to return to a ready stance (as if holding the racket up in front of you) and keep the direction of your hit aimed at the sensor bar for the game to accurately pickup your movements. You can't play as if you're on a full size court. Instead, I played as if the length of my TV was the size of the singles court (22-inch) with the length of the TV case it stands on as the net length and baseline. At that point it became very simple to hit early when aiming left or hit later when aiming right. Every slice, topspin, flat shot, and degree of speed started registering completely naturally as I am used to hitting on the real court. However, even with that accuracy nailed down, you can definitely expect the game AI to make you work for every point, making every match very rewarding. I highly recommend any tennis fan to give this a try, and commit to the practice and experimentation required to get comfortable with the controls. It's well worth the effort!… Expand

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2. 88dizi88

   8

   The motion plus controls work about 90% of time, provided you return your Wii remote(ie: your racket) to the center position after each swing. There a few times where the games thinks you're performing a backhand instead a forehard and occassionally your player will stand still even after you've swung. But overall, aiming and spinning the ball is generally accurate and mostly importantly, enjoyable with the motion plus. The game can be played without the motion plus but control over the racket is drastically decreased. The online and offline options are fairly good. Being able to have 2 players go online together (such as in Mario Kart) is also a nice bonus. It's not a great sports game but it is the fairly good one that justifies the purchase of a Wii. With the Wiimotion plus, gameplay wise, no other sports games can compare.… Expand

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3. Wiirdo

   7

   Having played both Virtua Tennis 2009 and Grand Slam Tennis, I thought I'd weigh in with my take on which game to get. The answer? Grand Slam Tennis. Even though GST interrupts motion control with button presses for drop shots and lobs, the end result is superior to VT2009's scheme, which is plagued by dodgy swing recognition. In VT, if you swing just a *bit* too quickly, you hit a normal slice instead of a drop. Swing just a *bit* too slowly, and your motion doesn't register at all. The ball sails harmlessly by, and you lose the point. Maddening. While buttons aren't optimal, they're a better solution. GST's graphics are also *much* more polished than VT2009. The players look better, animations are smoother, the frame rate is more stable. Created characters look significantly better in GST, also. Skill development may not be as good in GST as it is in VT2009, but then not every skill minigame in VT works. Some (blockbreaker) are waaay too easy. Some (pirate ship) are insanely difficult with WM+. I kind of like the pre-tournament challenges in GST - winning abilities of defeated opponents. In either game, there's going to be a *ton* of grinding to get your created character to where you want him/her to be. It's tough to compare online play between the two games because, after a week of VT2009, I was only able to play two matches. There just aren't that many people online. This may change after the game is released in Europe, but it's still frustrating. GST fares *much* better in this regard. Both games play smoothly, with little to no lag. There are two things that VT2009 does better than GST, and I'd be remiss not to mention them. I find VT2009 to be much more fun when playing without a WM+. As another user review mentioned, without WM+, VT2009 is like a really, really good version of Top Spin 3. The second thing that VT2009 does better than GST is keep the wm+ calibrated. After a week of VT2009, I can count on one hand the number of times that points were ruined by poor wm+ calibration. It happens much more frequently in GST, unfortunately. 3-5 times per match is not uncommon. And that's ultimately what keeps GST from being a first-rate title. If we could combine EA's control scheme and Sega's ability to keep wm+ from fritzing out, we'd have one heck of a game on our hands. But we can't, which leaves us with a choice. Arcade tennis (VT 2009) that's just as good (if not better) without wm+. Or a deeper, more "sim"-type game (GST) that will have you fighting back urges to fling your wm+ across the room, a la John McEnroe. Final score: GST with the narrow victory. Grand Slam Tennis: 7.5 Virtua Tennis 7.2… Expand

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4. BobA

   3

   If you are only to read one of these reviews -- Read This One! Do not purchase this game as you will be wasting your money on a game that has some of the most frustrating controls of any Wii game. The game will force you to swing back swings when you are obviously pointing front, it doesn't know where the controller so positions the player to make a back swing even though you are facing completely forward. Just don't buy this game, its not worth it, even with MotionPlus its just not good.… Expand

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