Matchpoint - Tennis Championships Reviews
Persistent issues with hitches in performance and merely middling play make this tennis sim come up short
The title as a whole is the definition of mediocrity. But the issue with the graphics is so alienating that it falls below even this bar
Review in Greek | Read full review
Matchpoint - Tennis Championships has all the makings of becoming a spectacular tennis game in a given time. Even though the AI lacks depth, the gameplay is still entertaining and captivating. It has the potential to be a much more captivating game in future updates or releases if all the issues are addressed to improve the overall experience. It's been years since we've had a tennis game that came this close to being recognized as potential. Perhaps the lack of effort on the overall delivery makes it seem like the game took a step backward. Torus Games and Kalypso Media still deserve much credit for giving fans the hope for a great tennis simulator.
Matchpoint - Tennis Championships is the most authentic tennis experience in modern gaming, and a game with great potential shouldn't go to waste. The game is on the right track. The gameplay is probably the best tennis experience you can get in a game. You enjoy vigorous matches and have the joy of the new ranking system based on how well you play.
Overall the game is a very lightweight package which shows that Matchpoint Tennis Championships isn’t a high budget tennis game. The animations and atmosphere in the tennis stadiums are well done. Hitting a shot feels satisfying. But, overall the game is too easy and one dimensional. There is a great tennis game in there somewhere, but the developers haven’t been able to capitalize on the opportunity. If you are craving to play a tennis game, try this one! If you’re fine playing something else, then there’s plenty of other sports games to try.
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships isn’t the best Tennis game I’ve ever played but it manages to be more fun than some others I’ve played in recent years. The act of actually playing it is what I liked the most about it as moving and performing shots generally felt really good. It doesn’t have much to offer outside of the Career Mode though and the overall presentation needs to be improved if this team makes another one. If you’re looking for a good playing Tennis game then I think you’ll like what this one has to offer.
Matchpoint – Tennis Championships is great if you want tennis, and nothing but tennis. It'll give you ample opportunity to play match after match, and it never bogs you down in the extraneous nonsense that seems to plague most sports games. But if you want to do literally anything more than that, you might find your attention wavers long before you come close to finishing your career.
Matchpoint - Tennis Championships doesn't bring anything new to the table, but it may be the right game for fans of the genre looking for demanding control and a challenge to match.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Matchpoint Tennis Championships delivers a quite average tennis simulation physics wise, but fails to offer a compelling experience in terms of overall gameplay. A shallow IA, a flat career and some hiccups during the rallies make the game fall short in intensity and fun after a few hours. If you have Xbox Game Pass, though, the game can offer some fun in multiplayer.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Matchpoint - Tennis Championships is a simulation that goes through ups and downs. The graphics feel a bit dated and the ball physics doesn't feel fully convincing, but once you master the control system you'll get some decent satisfaction out of it. Too bad, also, for the lack of content both in terms of modes and prominent tennis players.
Review in Italian | Read full review
A tennis sim with a lot of potential but a lot of missed opportunity!
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships manages to release a game that presents an easy yet technical approach to the sport. It results in a game where you can make more mistakes than the more arcade-like approach of some older, well regarded tennis titles, but it results in a game that feels more responsive compared to most of its contemporaries. Yet it doesn't manage to do anything beyond that due to a lack of players and modes, so cross-play only benefits those who want a no-frills 1v1 experience. It's fine overall, but no one would blame you if you skipped this one in the hopes that someone can transplant the gameplay into a title with more to do.
So while the current status of Matchpoint: Tennis Championships could use some smoothing out and a few extra features, such as character customizations and an ability to call for review, it’s still a decent Tennis game and I enjoyed my time with it.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships is a simulation with ups and downs: we expected more from Torus Games. As a tennis game itself, once you metabolize the control system and pass over a number of gaps, it's not bad at all. Unfortunately, the content is missing: the career becomes boring after a couple of hours of play and there is nothing else to do but beat your own records with minigames or challenge a friend on the sofa at home.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships shows all its limits after just a few matches. There are some interesting ideas but, considering the poor A.I and the lack of game modes, there is no reason to play this game for more than a few hours.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Matchpoint Tennis Championship is a good tennis game that will delight the average fan, with very fun matches to play, both alone and in company, thanks to its local or online mode, however, and although it is presented to us as a professional tennis simulator, we already warn you that it is not the definitive tennis simulator, since it has many absences, such as the absence of the absence of doubles matches or the absence of great stars of the sport of the racket, in my opinion, big failures. They have achieved the most difficult part, which is to make a game easy and fun to play, although the rest of the aspects remain to be polished, especially at the graphic level.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships is the correct title. There is no shortage of interesting ideas in terms of mechanics, Career Mode can be fun for a few hours, and a few licensed players are of course not enough, but some minimum has been met. The advantage here is certainly the price below the AAA standard, which makes the rating jump by one eye. Tennis fans should check, others can wait for the promotion.
Review in Polish | Read full review
That being said, if Matchpoint Tennis had just thrown the occasional loss at me, or even let me fight back from behind at times, I would have spent so much more time playing the game. It’s unfortunate to think that here we have a tennis game that developers should be paying close attention to, because it gets so much right, and we know that won’t happen because one critical error means I have no choice but to score it the way I have. If, down the track, there’s a patch to improve the difficulty in an interesting way, then Matchpoint would be the best tennis game currently available, purely because the on-court gameplay actually gets it.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships is a game of two halves. While the actual moment-to-moment gameplay feels great thanks to well-implemented mechanics and challenging AI, everything supporting that structure is half-baked.
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships is the first game after Top Spin 4 with a brilliant gameplay. Too bad for the unsatisfying graphics and a bit of uncertainty with AI.
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