New Tennis World Tour details and footage
Various outlets recently went hands-on with Tennis World Tour. Along with details, new footage has been published online this week. We’ve rounded up the information and media below.
– The team wanted to make a simulation, something more like Top Spin than Virtua Tennis
– 60 FPS (on Switch confirmed)
– The developer teamed up with both motion capture studio Mocaplab and some professional tennis players
– Some great players are absent from the game such as Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray
– Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka, Gael Monfils, and Lucas Pouille will all be in the game
– Around 30 players at launch
– Choices towards promising young players
– Five women players, including Caroline Wozniacki and Garbiñe Muguruza
– The studio wanted to add more, but for now, talks are ongoing and they will most likely arrive as part of a paid-for DLC
– It was equally difficult for the studio to license the official tournament courts
– The studio went straight to the people who designed them in the first place, and in doing so they have recreated no less than 18
– Each court is different from the last
– From Wimbledon to the US Open with surfaces of various kinds
– Various game modes, including an exhibition mode, competitive online matches, and a career mode
– Career mode: play as a character you have created, dress them in gear drawn a collection of 500 unlockable items for both men and women
– You will have to choose different coaches from a wide range of options, and they will help you customize your character through the acquisition of skill cards
– No loot boxes for cards
– Get cards by advancing in your career and by hiring coaches that you acquire them
– Each coach has their own cards
– You’re free to choose your coach according to the skills that best suit your style
– Cards add passive skills as well as abilities linked to particular moves
– The team wants to find a good balance to avoid ending up with five cards that outperform all others
– The game will have plenty to unlock, and your character will be unique according to their appearance as well as their special abilities
– For customization, can also increase the ability of your character across a trio of areas: defense, attack, and serve / volley
– Each point spent will increase your abilities accordingly, but you can’t always spend your points in the same area
– Managing your fitness is also essential
– Once your career is up and running, you choose which tournaments you want to take part in
– Your player might suffer from the jetlag depending on where they are travelling to
– They’ll get tired more quickly and then they’ll be more prone to injuries
– You will therefore have the choice to slow down your progression or keep going at full speed but at the risk of injuring yourself in the process
– 2v2 mode will be added after launch as free DLC
– Faces of the players, although recognisable, aren’t photorealistic since the frame rate is being prioritized
– The court is divided into nine zones
– If the shot is too strong, the ball is more likely to land out of bounds
– The power of each shot must be adapted according to the position of the player
