The best overall game to hit the 360.
Also this game has a very strategic feel to it. It will take you a while to master the game. Y is the lob shot, you use this against playes on the net. X is the slice shot, this shot is useful whenever you are at the net because of the spinning away motion it can have, and it has a great angle. You can also use this whenever you are on the baseine to slow the game down a ittle bit so you can run up and ge3t into posistion at the net, giving you an advantage on the return if you posistion yourself right. A is the safe volley, this just returns the ball safely to the other side. No tricks about it. I like to use these whenever somebody hits a really good serve at me. The B shot is the top spin shot, if you use this shot up by the t he net it is a very powerful shot that can put the ball past the4 opposing player(s). However, it has a grat risk of going out. Also use this shot whenever you are back by thr baseline. This shot produces a high bounce. This is also an effective shot to use whenever you are hitting cross court. You can also make all of these shots while holding the right trigger to make them risk shots. You can get a lot more out of the shots but with a very high chance of goingh out. You also can use the left triggerd then one of the four buttons to execute advanced shots, these shots can occur whenever you win enough points. A bar is displayed at the top corners of your screen. This will tell you what advanced shots you can use.
You use all these shots combined with the left abnalog stick to posistion them. All of these shots have a lot of use, so none of them are wasted buttons. It gives Top Spin a very tactical feel. Keep this in mind however, like in real tennis, the posistioning of your character means everything. That is the thingat will prove challenging for most in this game. This is what makes Top Spin 2 a great Tennis Simulator.
Whenever my friends come over to my house we have a Top Spin party. They have a feature called party games but I never play any of these games. We just play doubles exhibition matches. Very competitve. graphically, the game looks awesome. Player models are excellent, but as Gamespot mentioned, there eyes do look weird but I did not even see that unl I read the Gamespot article so it is not that noticeable.
In conclusion, Top Spin 2 is the best game out for the 360 out right now in my opinion, but I am a big Tennis fan. So if you are a big tennis fan abd you own a 360 you need to pick this up now!!! Not to mention I also think it is the cheapest game to hit the 360 right now at a 40 dollar price tag. Yet another awesome thing about Top Spin.