Sega Launches Virtual Tennis

Virtual Tennis News:

Tennis fans beware! Sega has just issued a press release stating that they will be releasing Virtua Tennis 3 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 early next year.

It’s not exactly a big surprise, since Sega have released Power Smash Tennis 3 in Japanese arcades (based on their new Lindbergh board - might be in a few Australian arcades now too), and we all know Sega can’t resist a home conversion. However, since Virtua Tennis 2 is still the best tennis game to be released, we can’t help but be excited.

The final game will include a Career Mode to allow players to travel the world and challenge the biggest tennis stars. In addition, players can customize their character in the Player Creation Mode. Finally, the game will see the return of addictive tennis mini-games.

“The familiar depth of the Virtua Tennis franchise returns with improvements that can only be fully realized on next-gen systems,” said Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing, SEGA of America, Inc. “Great pick-up and playability, life-like details, and incredible physics are benchmarks of the series and will make Virtua Tennis 3 the standard by which all tennis games are judged.”

Virtua Tennis 3 will be on display at Sega’s booth at E3. The rest of us will have till Q1 2007.

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