Virtua Tennis 2

Virtua Tennis 2
Developer(s)	Hitmaker
Publisher(s)	Sega
Platform(s)	Arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2
Release date(s)	Arcade 2001 Dreamcast NA October 24, 2001 JP November 15, 2001 EU November 23, 2001 PlayStation 2 NA July 30, 2002 JP November 7, 2002 EU November 29, 2002
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: E
Media	GD-ROM, CD
Input methods	Gamepad

Virtua Tennis 2 (known as Tennis 2K2 in the US and Power Smash 2 in Japan) is a sequel to Virtua Tennis that was released for the Sega Dreamcast, Sega NAOMI arcade unit and Sony's PlayStation 2 (known as Sega Sports Tennis) in 2001. New features included the ability to slice and play as female players (such as Monica Seles, Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Lindsay Davenport) and mixed doubles matches. The game was created and produced by Hitmaker, with Acclaim Entertainment publishing it in Europe for the PS2. The PS2 version is compatible with the multitap, allowing for four players on one console at the same time.

Trivia

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• Virtua Tennis 2 was one of the last games released on the Dreamcast in Europe in 2001 - the game was in shops in November on the same weekend as Shenmue 2 (another massive Dreamcast title). During the following year several more games were released in Europe until eventually all Dreamcast distribution was stopped.
• The game features a hugely expanded version of the World Tour mode found in the original Virtua Tennis and allows the player to unlock many different courts, rackets, and items of clothing.
• The PlayStation 2 version (released in 2002) was noticeably visually worse than the Dreamcast version and featured the well known system issue of "jaggies" and some of the general graphic "sheen" was missing. European copies of the game were blue discs, which causes problems for PlayStation 2 that have the infamous 'disk read error' problem.
• "King" and "Queen" are the bonus "boss" characters of the game and are faced as the final doubles team in the world tour mode. They are also unlockable to play in tournament mode by winning every match without losing a single game and then, by beating King (or Queen - depending on the sex of your player) in the final. There are 99 levels of King and Queen to beat.

Players

Men

• Patrick Rafter (Serve-&-Volley)
• () Tim Henman (Serve-&-Volley)
• Carlos Moyà (Powerful Strokes)
• Tommy Haas (Strong Forehand)
• Thomas Enqvist (Strong Backhand)
• Cedric Pioline (All-Round)
• Yevgeny Kafelnikov (All-Round)
• Magnus Norman (Fast Runner)
• King (Bonus player who can be unlocked)

Women

• Lindsay Davenport (All Around)
• Jelena Dokić^DC (Fast Runner)
• Mary Pierce (Strong Forehand)
• Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Various Shots)
• Monica Seles (Hard Hitter)
• Alexandra Stevenson (Strong Backhand)
• Ai Sugiyama^PS2 (Fast Runner)
• Serena Williams (Powerful Strokes)
• Venus Williams (All Around)
• Queen (Bonus player who can be unlocked)

DC: Dreamcast Exclusive
PS2: PlayStation 2 Exclusive

External links

• Tennis 2K2 at MobyGames
• eurogamer.net review

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