AO Tennis claims to be ‘the most advanced tennis game ever produced,’ but it’s clear that its lofty ambition far exceeds its ability to execute. Certainly AO Tennis is not even up to the standard of the Top Spin or Virtua Tennis games released an entire console generation ago, and is about as absent-minded, half-hearted, and personality free as a birthday card from Bernard Tomic.
AO Tennis has a handful of fresh ideas but they’re far from fully formed and never really adequately explained thanks to the complete absence of any in-game tutorials. For example, you’re given the option of using the right thumbstick to both serve and play your shots with, but I soon discovered that the former is limited only to flat serves and the latter automatically decides the shot type for you. If you want to deliberately impart slice on a serve or put topspin on a forehand you’re forced to revert to the classic face button setup anyway, which meant that I soon ditched the half-baked thumbstick controls and never went back.
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AO Tennis has a handful of fresh ideas but they’re far from fully formed and never really adequately explained thanks to the complete absence of any in-game tutorials. For example, you’re given the option of using the right thumbstick to both serve and play your shots with, but I soon discovered that the former is limited only to flat serves and the latter automatically decides the shot type for you. If you want to deliberately impart slice on a serve or put topspin on a forehand you’re forced to revert to the classic face button setup anyway, which meant that I soon ditched the half-baked thumbstick controls and never went back.
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