Matchpoint - Tennis Championships Reviews
By simply providing a fun and fairly authentic game of tennis it manages to outshine its rivals. And because of that, whether you’re buying it to get stuck into its single-player career mode or take on all-comers in online multiplayer, chances are you won’t be disappointed.
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships gives you the tools to play realistic tennis rallies, and it feels pretty good on the pad overall. The problem is that a real lack of enthusiasm on court pairs with a stodgy career mode to sap your enthusiasm. There's fun to be had here, and a large animation library allows the gameplay to look relatively realistic from afar, but tennis fans will still have to wait for a real winner to topple the legendary Top Spin 4.
The tennis experience itself is very satisfying, so it is worth it if you are passionate about the racket. At the graphic and variety level, it falls much shorter.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
It's constantly a good time on-court and that's all that really counts.
Matchpoint - Tennis Championships is not a bad game, it can entertain. But its low difficulty and its excessive need to hold the player by the hand make it quickly lose interest in playing against an AI that does not offer any challenge. Still, if you want a game of tennis, it's not a bad option. There are simply better alternatives, even if they are perhaps less beautiful.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Matchpoint Tennis Championships serves up a smooth-playing game of tennis, but saddles it with a sub-par career mode and under-featured multiplayer.
It might not exactly be a pretty game when it comes to its presentation, nor does it feature the most robust of rosters, but Matchpoint Tennis Championships nails the essentials. With regards to its gameplay, I haven’t played a tennis game like this since the golden days of Top Spin for the original Xbox. As a tennis enthusiast, I was salivating for a game like this for many years. It lets me play and come up with strategies on the fly, just like I’d do in real life. Whether you decide to tackle a career or just play a quick arcade match, Matchpoint Tennis Championships delivers. It’s one grand slam of a game.
It's a shame, but Matchpoint Tennis Championships just didn't quite get there on most aspects of its tennis simulation. A lack of licenced players and UI bugs only compound the core issues with the controls being far too simplistic and repetition setting in extremely quickly.
The ultimate issue with MPTC is that it becomes repetitive with very little to do once career mode and online become stale. Hopefully, the developers get a second shot and can add created and shareable stadiums, logos, and players that can be used online and offline in career mode. If you're itching for a console tennis game that plays well, give Matchpoint: Tennis Championships a go, but understand it's a first-year effort, and there are some mechanical issues and a lack of depth.
Intuitive controls and great presentation provide some promise, but Matchpoint - Tennis Championships fails to deliver beyond that point. It's too easy to master, and there's just not enough in the game to keep players entertained beyond the first few hours of gameplay.
What it has made here could be considered impressive, in a way, considering its lack of expertise in this genre, because it’s not entirely incompetent. The tennis does play fairly realistically and there is a rhythm to it that did remind me of Virtua Tennis 2 at times. But I'm not sure that you'll want to spend your hours with this game, because it’ll seem like time will slow down to a crawl.
In short, the game is fun, with a good gameplay to which you will catch the trick very quickly, but with a low level of difficulty. This can make your desire to play shorten due to the fact that it makes you an easy delivery, although there will always be the multiplayer mode to face real challenges. The game has a good base, if in the future this delivery has support or the developer surprises us with a new game more worked, maybe we will find a surprise and have one of the best tennis games that there is in the new generation consoles.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships is a good tennis game accessible to all audiences, although it lacks depth, difficulty and getting closer to simulation to be great.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Matchpoint: Tennis Championships deserves your attention on Xbox Game Pass, as it's genuinely one of the better Xbox tennis games we've seen in years. It has its drawbacks, particularly in the presentation department, but it's also good fun when you get out on the court. Unfortunately, some of that enjoyment has been taken away for us because even on the highest difficulty, the game just feels far too easy at launch, rendering a lot of the strategic elements and Career Mode's features somewhat useless for now. It's still a pretty good game regardless, but definitely in need of a couple of balancing tweaks over the coming weeks and months.
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.
Review in Italian | Read full review
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.
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 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
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 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.
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