![]() It's definitely worth the cost of admission. The game is a steal at ten bucks on the Wii Virtual Console service, or you can find it for cheap on a site like eBay. It has everything you'd expect from a game from Camelot including addicting gameplay, challenging modes, cunning CPU opponents, loads of unlockables, and a plethora of characters to choose from and master. Mario Tennis is a tremendous tennis title. This can get tedious when you want to just play a game uninterrupted, but thankfully replays can be skipped entirely. Moreover, each time a player scores there's a replay of the winning shot. There's an option to alter where the camera view is designated inside the options menu. It's best to play Mario Tennis with having the camera on your side of the court at all times as playing on far side of the screen can get confusing real fast. Who else gets tense when the match point theme plays? Continuing with the sound, Mario announces the score as well as who earned the point.īowser's court tilts and tumbles as you hit the ball ![]() Motoi Sakuraba's music is energizing and matches the action on the court. Meanwhile the audio is quite good and stands the test of time. ![]() That does not stop the game from being a blast to play with friends (up to four players at once), however. It looked good for the time, but the game looks severely outdated. Still, the character models are made up of simple polygons, court textures are nonexistent, and the crowd is made up of 2D characters. Mario Tennis came out in 2000, so it is an older Nintendo 64 game. Lob shots are tricky to do as a star appears on the opponent's side of the court that your enemy can get under and strike with a strong, powerful shot that can speed past your defenses in the blink of an eye. Conversely, B and then A performs a drop shot for those defenders too far away from the net to reach in time. One button hits a top spin shot, another controls a flat shot, while pressing A and then B executes a lob shot that flies over those occupying the net. This was before the advent of power shots that Mario Power Tennis on the Gamecube introduced. Mario Tennis plays like a traditional tennis game believe it or not. When you win a tournament as a specific character, you earn the ability to play as their star character giving them more power and speed in their ball-handling. Some characters are well-rounded like Mario and Luigi, some like Wario and Donkey Kong depend upon their strength to win while characters like Boo and Paratroopa rely on tricky curved shots to get a one-up on their competition. Speaking of characters there's multiple ones to control and conquer with. There's an expansive number of unique courts to unlock through singles and doubles play. Battle in the skies of the Mushroom Kingdom on Mario and Luigi's court or monkey around on Donkey Kong's jungle-themed court. By winning tournaments as certain characters, you unlock new courts to play on in exhibition play. For one, you can earn trophies for all of the over-a-dozen characters in both singles and doubles play. There is a plethora of things to do in Mario Tennis. Meanwhile, you have to get your shots past a defender who will do anything he or she can to thwart your efforts. Then there's a piranha plant game where you attempt to hit fifty balls that shoot out from the mouths of the plants. There's ring shot where you volley between yourself and the computer, hitting the ball through the rings that pop up, going for a high score. The main single-player mode has you playing a tournament-styled mode either in singles or doubles play. With a colorful cast of characters, multiple modes, and awesome multiplayer play, Mario Tennis is one of the great tennis titles on any platform.Īs stated already there's many modes to discover in Mario Tennis. Not only was there a companion game on the Game Boy Color that allowed you to transfer characters to the Nintendo 64 version, but it was the introduction of Luigi's archrival, Waluigi. In 2000 he returned to the sporting arena to play a game of tennis. ![]() He's destroyed Bowser's plans multiple times, he's raced go-karts, played rounds of golf, even slammed one out of the park like Barry Bonds. Mario and crew make a racket on the tennis circuit.
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