Tennis Court Smash
The controls of Smash Tennis work similar to other tennis games and
especially Namco’s previous tennis game World Court Tennis: the player moves
the athlete over the court and presses buttons with the correct timing in
order to win the match. This time there is no story mode, but a tournament
mode instead. Here the goal is to win the Grand Slam by playing various
tournament matches. However. a match only has a single set. There are 20
athletes (both male and female) to choose from which have different advantages
and drawbacks.
The exhibition matches are more free form: the player can choose the
conditions of the match, especially the surface which influences the ball
physics. Some of them are recreations of realistic tennis stadiums, others are
fictional places like a strand or in front of a temple. Here there are optical
gags built in, e.g. a mountaineer who falls down when hit with the ball. The
“Whistle-Stop-Tour” allows to play against the same opponent on multiple
surfaces.
Tennis Court Smash