After creating a character, players begin in China and must make their way across the globe playing friendly matches, mini-games and attending charity events in order to obtain the required number of stars to qualify for the season's big tourney. Thankfully developers AM3, who have taken over from Sumo Digital, have implemented a much more enjoyable, almost board game-esque career mode, which takes place over the course of four seasons. The biggest problem with the previous entry was the long-winded and poorly paced World Tour mode.

However, with a couple of years to put things right, as well as the addition of new motion control technology, can Virtua Tennis 4 return the video game tennis crown to Sega? Unfortunately, previous entry Virtua Tennis 2009 had the gameplay, but was stuck with the tedious and rather poorly executed World Tour mode and has since been surpassed by recent release Top Spin 4.

No longer content with near-faultless arcade gameplay, the modern-day gamer demands a little more depth and sophistication from their sports titles, not to mention a comprehensive single-player experience. Ever since its debut in 1999, Sega's Virtua Tennis has been the Grand Slam champion of the video game tennis circuit, or at least it was until 2K's Top Spin came along.

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