Tennis Tour Review – A stick figure tennis game with good mechanics

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By: Clinton Gugrel

Version #: 2.3

Date Released: 2012-01-20

Developer: Clinton Gugrel

Price: 0.99

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Tennis Tour is probably the best game to entertain you while you watch Roland Garros games (or the Australian open, or whatever). A seemingly simple stick figure tennis game, more advanced than what it looks.

Tennis Tour looks raw. Just a stick figure, cartoonish graphics. You may qualify its looks as amateurish. Well, don’t be deceived. Tennis Tour is what you get when you remove all the swoosh and 3D graphics from the great tennis titles. Or what you’d get if great tennis titles had good controls.

In Tennis Tour control of your stick player is done via a virtual keypad (fixed in place), which is also used to select shot direction. You can also use two types of shots, top spin and slice-lob. Whether it is a slice or a lob, depends on where your rival is placed, how strong you try to shoot and the moment you hit the ball.

This is a very fine feature of Tennis Tour: you have to manually place your player in the right spot for the right shot. Kind of as in real life, a great shot by a misplaced (or hurried by running) player can go out by 10 meters, but the same shot with the right foot and arm placement can graze the lines and win you the game.

In short: Tennis Tour is raw, pure mobile tennis. Pick and play without wasting time in needless loading screens in this great time waster.