"Instead, you can switch on the fly while you're playing, so it's run time. But what we didn't do was make it an option, where you have to go into an option screen, configure the settings and decide whether you want to play with classic controls or this brand new, innovative Total Racquet Control set-up. What we didn't want to do was innovate the tennis category using analogue, but then completely disregard what consumers have known the tennis video game experience to be, or arguably what every video experience is, which is button-based. Simply by pushing forward on the right analogue stick, you'll hit flat shots and the direction you flick the stick will determine where it goes."Īre traditional button-based control methods also included? "This lets the player not only dictate where the shots go, but allows them to perform all the shot types by moving the analogue stick in different directions.
We've essentially taken the tennis racquet and put it on the right analogue stick. "Well it's similar to what we've done in our Fight Night franchise and the Total Punch Control, the same with the Skate franchise and the right analogue stick, and with the NHL series. It's about innovating the tennis genre like no other game before it, with features like Total Racquet Control, where you can essentially control the entire experience, should you choose to, with just the analogue sticks."Ĭan you talk us through Total Racquet Control? How is it beneficial to the player? " Grand Slam Tennis 2 is about delivering the complete tennis sports simulation experience that you would expect from an EA Sports title.
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The new game, which is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360, takes it to the next level." From a licensing perspective, it had all of the major tournaments, the Grand Slam element, it had guys like Pat Cash as commentator, so there were a lot of firsts for a tennis video game. But under the hood, it was still very authentic to the sport of tennis. It was very casual, it was very social, it was more about getting together with friends and having a party with the Wii. "The original Grand Slam Tennis was stylised for the Wii in terms of the modes we included and the way you played the game. This is the first Grand Slam Tennis title to appear on the Xbox 360 and PS3, how come the original was a Wii exclusive? We chat to producer Thomas Singleton about what we can expect from EA's first true next-generation tennis release and whether or not he has ever been shouted at by John McEnroe. And with no Top Spin or Virtua Tennis titles to contend with, the makers couldn't have picked a better time to take to the virtual court. In fact, Grand Slam Tennis 2’s new roster lets you take up the racquet as any one of 20+ past and present tennis champs, from Pete Sampras to Serena Williams.Grand Slam Tennis 2 is readying to launch on the Xbox 360 and PS3 for the very first time, following the decision to make the original game a Nintendo Wii exclusive back in 2008. Maybe you can’t grow a Bjorn Borg-style mane, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play as him.
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