REVIEW : Matchpoint – Tennis Championships (PC)
Matchpoint – Tennis Championships is a fresh spin on the traditional sport of tennis. Matchpoint – Tennis Championships is a virtual portrayal of true-to-life on-court tennis encounters with a deep career mode and rivalry system developed by Taurus Games. This is the game to play if you want a true recreation of the game of tennis.
Let’s start with the appearance and feel of Matchpoint – Tennis Championships. With realistic character modelling and mechanics, the game looks unexpectedly beautiful and realistic. All of the moves appear to be top-notch and smooth. Tennis lovers will like the fact that you can play as or against 16 real-life worldwide tennis stars, including Nick Kyrgios, Kei Nishikori, and Amanda Anisimova.
Four different local player modes are available in Matchpoint – Tennis Championships. Career, Quick Match, Practice, and Training are the four alternatives. There’s a tutorial mode that you’ll probably just use once to learn all of the moves. PC users can play with the keyboard, but I prefer a gamepad because the keyboard is inconvenient.
Review of the Matchpoint Tennis Championships: Locally, you can play either alone or with a companion. You only need another controller. When it comes to controls, they are really simple to understand. The four right buttons represent different strokes and serve, while the left stick is used to move your player around the court and aim where you hit the ball. It’s quite easy to use and keeps the action flowing swiftly. My only criticism is that the ball aiming might be a little shaky at times, but practise makes perfect.
If you play alone, you’ll almost certainly employ the comprehensive Career mode. You start by making a character, which is pretty simple and has only a few modification options. You can change your gender, face, skin tone, hair, clothes, and colour. Faces are pre-rendered and cannot be modified further.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships Career Mode
In the Career mode, you compete in many tournaments to advance in rank. You can also gain XP, unlock new clothing items, and purchase new rackets. It’s your usual career mode that keeps you returning for more. However, it looks like career mode has limitations. Even though there are 60 events to compete in, none appear to be legitimately licenced, with off-brand rivals such as The French Masters and The London Grand replacing the French Open and Wimbledon, robbing them of any sense of real-world status.
Furthermore, the player creation toolbox is relatively limited, with just a few heads and hairstyles to choose from, as well as no precise tools for sculpting facial traits or the capacity to customise things like service motions.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships Gameplay
Enter the world of professional tennis. Matchpoint – Tennis Championships have a lengthy career mode as well as a unique merit-based ranking system. Create your 3D tennis star. Choose your look, fashion, and play style from a wealth of customisation options, which include realistic approaches such as left- or right-handed, one-handed, or two-handed backhand.
You must command the court as a tennis professional. Personalize your athlete and wearables completely. The game features equipment from all of the main tennis manufacturers, including Babolat, YONEX, HEAD, and many others, from rackets to clothing. Winning competitive matches grants access to special equipment. Master all strokes and shots in elegance. To determine the outcome of a rally, select the best approach for the time: topspin, flat, lob, or slice shot. Examine your opponent’s strategies and manoeuvres. Observe your opponents and learn about their strengths and weaknesses before you ever get onto the court. Hire a personal coach to assist you in improving your abilities. You can improve your skills and minimise your shortcomings by using an in-game tutoring system that includes various training modules.
Review of the Matchpoint Tennis Championships: You can fine-tune your techniques in Practice and Training modes: Play a variety of mini-games to hone your skills and become a force to be reckoned with on the court. Take part in exhibition matches in spectacular locales all around the world. Each court is unique; investigate your playing areas and modify your game to grass, clay, and hard courts. There is a replay mode available. Capture your most difficult rallies on film and analyse the results to improve your game, whether it’s a breakpoint or a key match point.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships Challenge with the opposite player
Aside from the career mode, you can also play short matches against AI opponents, as well as online casual and ranked matches, both of which allow you to use licenced players. At launch, cross-play will be available on all platforms, and it’s here that you’ll find the most difficult aspect of Matchpoint: Tennis Championships.
Before you may enter the game’s multiplayer’s ranked mode, you must first finish three unranked matches so that your skill level can be matched with an opponent of equal rank. Matchpoint’s online matches are replicated on a remote server using Photon’s Quantum multiplayer engine, which replicates each player’s inputs to remove any potential latency issues. There are just singles matches available, so if you want to play doubles, seek elsewhere.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships Players
While several of modern tennis’ biggest stars are missing from the Matchpoint roster, the game will have 16 international tennis players available at launch: Medvedev, Muguruza, Rublev, Ruud, Hurkaczs, Kyrgios, Paire, Watson, Gaston, Keys, Azarenka, Alcaraz, Carreno Busta, Fritz, Anisimova, and Nishikori. Take note, though, of the absence of the biggest names, who are almost certainly too expensive.
However, to lure a few brouzoufs while remaining realistic, brands such as Nike, Head, and Uniqlo will be present in the game. Furthermore, with no grand slam titles to their names, dubbing bonus players Tommy Haas and Tim Henman “legends” of the sport appears to be a stretch that not even Boris Becker in his prime could make. While the imbalance between licenced male and female players is disappointing, Matchpoint’s lack of doubles play may be more contentious among tennis game enthusiasts.
The game also emphasises appealing animations, as shown in the teaser below, as well as its physics engine, particularly for ball rebounds, and gameplay in which player positioning is crucial. Matchpoint: Tennis Championships tries to give you that experience if you can progress from a newbie to a racket-wielding superstar. Matchpoint was designed by Torus Games to be a realistic simulation of the real-world sport, thus shot selection, on-court strategy, and out-thinking your opponent are all important aspects of the action. When you first start Matchpoint, you’ll be offered the chance to practise in the tutorial, which teaches you the major mechanics that will be vital as you go through the game.
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