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Rob92
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Re: Top Spin 3 (PS3/360/Wii/DS)
I am finding that most players online are shit or use silly tactics and that the AI seems quite predictable so far.
For online matches I use Mario Ancic, most people use Federer or Roddick, and are absolutely rubbish at the game - randomly missing the ball, bad shot selection, bad timing, bad positioning/repositioning, bad use of risk shots etc and it is just too easy to win.
Another type of player are the ones that have a created player with 100 power, 90+ forehand and backhand, 80+ speed, decent serve and rubbish other stats, and just play a predictable, yet almost unstoppable game from the baseline. Very boring to play against.
There are also the ones that use the extreme wide serve - I don't mind a wide serve at all, it's fair enough as the server should have an advantage, but walking all the way over to the sideline, and slice/kick serving it to the opposite sideline, meaning you are almost in the stands when returning, either meaning they get an ace, you hit it out or give them an easy shot to put away. Really unfair and boring and the only way to counter it is a risk shot down the line, which is not a very reliable shot to return serve with.
Then there's the nerds who have mastered the risk shot and use it every game, these people usually use Nalbandian as he is the best groundstroker in the game, these are not too hard to beat if you approach the net at the right moment.
I have not yet gone on the ranked online world tour mode - Most of the time ranked matches = cheat fests, as I have heard is the case from the 2K forums, so I will most likely give that a miss.
Don't get me wrong, it's a really good game, best tennis game available, but there's still so much that could be better:
2v2 online doubles - As it stands the only way to play doubles is to have 2 people on the same console, and on Xbox Live, both controllers need to have an Xbox Live Gold member signed into them - what bullshit, how many people are going to be playing that?
Better career mode - Proper qualifiers, training, more areas to assign attributes to and more.
MORE PLAYERS - There simply isn't enough of them, no tennis game does - How would you like to buy a football game and find that players like Torres, Rooney and Fabregas were missing because EA couldn't get their license? Only 5 of the current top 20 in the ATP Rankings are in the 360 version of TS3.
Sack the people who give the players their ratings - Federer has a really poor serve and fairly poor backhand, Murray is almost as fast as Monfils and has a really poor serve (one of the strengths of his game nowadays) etc.
Add more individuality to players - Federer seems to be the only player with all of his own animations, others seem to just have generic ones (Roddick's and Nadal's serve animations are there too).
Increase responsiveness.
Make player ratings mean more, I shouldn't be able to smash Federer off the court from the baseline with Murray on "Very Hard".
Make it easier to hit a winner - online and offline I have had almost endless rallies where it seems the only way to win the point is to risk going to the net or hitting a risk shot, mostly happens offline.
Improve the atmosphere, the crowd is pretty lifeless at the moment.
P.S. - Does anybody know how to create a fairly realistic Nadal for 360? Also, I wonder if/when we will get DLC for the game, there is an option when you load a player for "Downloaded player", I wonder whether Nadal's contract with Sony will expire so we can get him on TS3...
I am finding that most players online are shit or use silly tactics and that the AI seems quite predictable so far.
For online matches I use Mario Ancic, most people use Federer or Roddick, and are absolutely rubbish at the game - randomly missing the ball, bad shot selection, bad timing, bad positioning/repositioning, bad use of risk shots etc and it is just too easy to win.
Another type of player are the ones that have a created player with 100 power, 90+ forehand and backhand, 80+ speed, decent serve and rubbish other stats, and just play a predictable, yet almost unstoppable game from the baseline. Very boring to play against.
There are also the ones that use the extreme wide serve - I don't mind a wide serve at all, it's fair enough as the server should have an advantage, but walking all the way over to the sideline, and slice/kick serving it to the opposite sideline, meaning you are almost in the stands when returning, either meaning they get an ace, you hit it out or give them an easy shot to put away. Really unfair and boring and the only way to counter it is a risk shot down the line, which is not a very reliable shot to return serve with.
Then there's the nerds who have mastered the risk shot and use it every game, these people usually use Nalbandian as he is the best groundstroker in the game, these are not too hard to beat if you approach the net at the right moment.
I have not yet gone on the ranked online world tour mode - Most of the time ranked matches = cheat fests, as I have heard is the case from the 2K forums, so I will most likely give that a miss.
Don't get me wrong, it's a really good game, best tennis game available, but there's still so much that could be better:
2v2 online doubles - As it stands the only way to play doubles is to have 2 people on the same console, and on Xbox Live, both controllers need to have an Xbox Live Gold member signed into them - what bullshit, how many people are going to be playing that?
Better career mode - Proper qualifiers, training, more areas to assign attributes to and more.
MORE PLAYERS - There simply isn't enough of them, no tennis game does - How would you like to buy a football game and find that players like Torres, Rooney and Fabregas were missing because EA couldn't get their license? Only 5 of the current top 20 in the ATP Rankings are in the 360 version of TS3.
Sack the people who give the players their ratings - Federer has a really poor serve and fairly poor backhand, Murray is almost as fast as Monfils and has a really poor serve (one of the strengths of his game nowadays) etc.
Add more individuality to players - Federer seems to be the only player with all of his own animations, others seem to just have generic ones (Roddick's and Nadal's serve animations are there too).
Increase responsiveness.
Make player ratings mean more, I shouldn't be able to smash Federer off the court from the baseline with Murray on "Very Hard".
Make it easier to hit a winner - online and offline I have had almost endless rallies where it seems the only way to win the point is to risk going to the net or hitting a risk shot, mostly happens offline.
Improve the atmosphere, the crowd is pretty lifeless at the moment.
P.S. - Does anybody know how to create a fairly realistic Nadal for 360? Also, I wonder if/when we will get DLC for the game, there is an option when you load a player for "Downloaded player", I wonder whether Nadal's contract with Sony will expire so we can get him on TS3...
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