Excellent tennis simulation but ....

Top Spin 4 is probably the best ever tennis game that ever made for a console.

Control default, the game orrientiert close to Part 3, the difference being 3 was then very very large between Top Spin 2 and Top Spin. It is essentially at the blows exactly on the timing and to respect the hardness of the key press. Here beginners are initially a little difficult with security
do, but does not guarantee success can be long in coming, what motivates! Pleasant to see that the complicated risk shocks were now removed.

Apart from Topspin, Slice and praise, there are 2 modifier keys, which let the Inside / Out Game rules and play a stop. Playful is the very first class. No comparison to games like Virtua Tennis, where the control in my opinion is more than lousy.

Well done in this part also the new XP system, so the players earn Experience Points with every match and training and then can invenstieren in the virtual character. Also the inclusion of coaches to refine the strengths is a useful innovation, which also contributes to the long-term motivation. You can decide in which direction you want to bring playful sinen character over the course of the game.

Creating your own custom player makes a lot of fun, there can be a lot of detail put through to clothing.

Unfortunately, there is shown in part 3 already no more training minigames. That I would have liked again but you can not have everything ;-)

The presentation of the game is when you can say that in the context of playing tennis so spectacular and very close to the TV broadcast it. Some new venues have been added, including the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London - playful and graphically one of the highlights. The slow motion is presented very well, in the long term but the annoying - can be regulated or shut off. The atmosphere in the stadium has also been improved, so the audience reacts more and more apparent, especially when spetakulären rallies. Unfortunately Wimbledon is still replaced by the Dublin Open, otherwise all the major tennis tournaments are included.

The player models the real professionals are well presented and realistic, you can see the players directly, but that was always a strength of the game.

A BUT there but what the 5 star would not be justified:

It exists in the game from time to time a lack realism. An example from my career in difficulty "means" where could I win everything at Minor, Major -and- Masters tournaments without any problems. In Masters tournaments you in the finals or semifinals speilt always against the big, so Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, Murray and Roddick. So far so good.
In Masters tournaments these players are always "bad", neither of which proposes more than 125 km / h, pulling these players 3/0 3/0 (Level 20) from.

I am really surprised and thought I'd have soon the difficulty to completely turn upwards. There was no difference to Noname players with level 10 and these top professionals at Level 20,. On the third level of difficulty I thought .. until then

So, now to the Grand Slam. In the first two rounds is the usual windfalls. 3 Round Nadal, one thinks, "OK, as always ..."

Suddenly, the game moves on to an unrealistic degree. Serves at 200 km / h, the expected playing a top player emerges. Shocked I'm legitimately under properly. Sure, I'm also up to that time (25 tournaments, no match loss ...) durchmarchiert and the game is not a way to get used to the new way of playing, because apparently from now on equal difficulty by 2-3 step increases, although it has won against said player already without any type problems.

So then directly times the Grand Slam is set in the sand. It is not about the difficulty in itself, after a few games at the level you get used to it and has really thrilling matches. Only is all very sinnfrei.

The Level I as not at all realistic because the players various tournaments are better by 2-3 classes suddenly. Actually, a no-go for an otherwise fantastic game. Therefore 4 stars.