Grand Slam Tennis

I thought I would just come on to this forum to express my feelings about some reviews I have read on Metacritic about Grand Slam Tennis.

This is by far the best tennis game I have ever played, its so intuitive and easy to pick up even my gran could play it. I let my 55 year old uncle have a go today, and within 15 minutes he had mastered every shot available and thought the game was brilliant. How these supposed professional reviewers ever came to the conclusion this game deserves less than 85%+ is an absolute disgrace, and shows they don't deserve or warrant jobs as a games reviewers as they have no idea what they are talking about. If you have ever played tennis for real this game emulates everything you can do on a real tennis court especially if you use the nunchuck to control your player. I have never had a problem with the m+ not behaving apart from letting it synchronise for 2 seconds every now then before my serve, which is no big deal and you hardly notice you are doing it because it becomes second nature after a while.

Anyway this is the first time I have ever posted on this site, but felt so strongly about some of the unwarrented reviews by total amature reviewers on so called professional games sites I felt I had no choice. It really has made me lose all respect for some of these games sites as not only do they give the wrong scores out they wouldn't know a good game if it smacked them in the face. They shoud be ashamed of themselves or at least get a ticking off from their editors for underating a great game that they dont understand how to play.

They know who they are but are so arrogant they would never admit to getting it wrong, and would turn a blind eye if they got to read my post.

Great game, on-line smooth and no lag and a great learning curve. Brilliant!! but that's my view.

i totaly agree, GST is a superb tennis game. the best ive ever played.

once u mastered the wm+ controlls it feels so damn good.

people who review it bad or mediocre have no clue about tennis or theyre just 2 lazy to move!

sounds nice

I almost didnt buy the game because some of the reviews. I considered V. Tennis over it. However my gut told me to get G.S.T. I still have some problems serving but I'm getting better. I LOVE THIS GAME THOUGH. Online lags a little however it doesn't ruin the excitment or gameplay when you are playing it. I am getting my butt kicked and just still enjoying the game. When I bought it I played two times of the regular game and was getting killed. However I don't even care about the basic game right now. I am enjoying the online play much more. Besides Mario Kart this is the second online game I really actually enjoy playing even if I am getting my butt kick like usual. Everyone buy this game!

Just in case anyone is interested here is the line up

As an Aussie I love having Pat Cash and Lleyton Hewitt (it was retired Mark Phillipousas on Top Spin!)

EA have done their homework creating some great matchups

The Final Player Lineup

•1. Chris Evert (USA)

•2. Justine Henin (BEL)

•3. Martina Navratilova (USA)

•4. Andy Murray (GBR)

•5. Michael Stich (GER)

•6. Lindsay Davenport (USA)

•7. Pat Cash (AUS)

•8. Kei Nishikori (JPN)

•9. Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)

•10. Venus Williams (USA)

•11. John McEnroe (USA)

•12. Bjorn Borg (SWE)

•13. Pete Sampras (USA)

•14. Stefan Edberg (SWE)

•15. Boris Becker (GER)

•16. Roger Federer (SUI)

•17. Rafael Nadal (ESP)

•18. Andy Roddick (USA)

•19. Novak Djokovic (SRB)

•20. JoWilfried Tsonga (FRA)

•21. Serena Williams (USA)

•22. Maria Sharapova (RUS)

•23. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)

I don't have the WM+ yet but played this last night

I hit the tennis machine for10 minutes, struggled a bit to do top soin returns but then got into the game

I was getting beat pretty easily so changed to Federer and removed nunchcuk and then I started to do well.

It is similar to Top Spin and Wii tennis, but a lot more polished. I made less stupid misses (controllers fault) then the other two and unlike topspin you can rip some sharp crosscourters. The easy setting is still not easy. Yes this is the best tennis game by far on the wii, player line is awesome, cutesy factor a bit offputting. Tennis games a very hit and miss (pun intended) with people as some times your personal swing just doesnt interepret well by wiimote, stick at it and it all comes good. I started the first grand slam and have fought hard but won all the way through to the first round without a loss, learning curve and progression seem just about right. Just need to be able to hit top spin and sliders at will to really master this game and of course understand what time to play what shot. I love the fact you can be pushed so far out of court and then go for the miraculous winner in the bottom corner, on wii tennis you run out of room and on topspin no way can you create that angle. Its very satifying, can't wait to master it and go online

i get ur enthusiasm for the game, but calling reviewers dumb and not deserving their jobs is going a little bit to far imo. i personally like resident evil that much, but thats just my opinion. anyways, i got GMT rented atm and i'm not sure about it. first of all the graphics are superb. i'm 2 hours into it now and my aiming gets better and i finally won my first game on easy (i'm playing with WM+ & Nunchuck). normally i'm really good in tennis games, so either this game is really challenging or i still need to learn a lot. there are still a lot of hits which go in another direction then i intended and sometimes the WM+ thinks my pulling back for the hit is the actual hit. also i thought there would be more players in the game and honestly i thought that there would be some ATP tourneys in addition to the Grand Slam Events. the commentary is also really bad (i heard like 5 different sentences so far?) aswell. imo those are enough critic points for less then 85%, but still it seems to be a great tennis game.ganga_

Is Aggasi not in this game? Wtf! I would love to play as that bald dude/former long hair. What is he still obligated with his 8 Bit sega deal?

I've been watching a few of the videos for the game and it looks really fun to play.

I would probably rent it before I buy it, but I am a huge tennis fan, and this game looks great!

Considering getting it, but I do have one question: can you create your own player? It's not a deal breaker, but I do love a good create-a-player; esspecially when there's online involved.

I'm getting it sometime soon, methinks. GameSpot's review seemed to be such a low score because they sucked at it. If you read IGN's review they say it requires practice.

And yes, you can create your own player.