Virtua Tennis 4

 Xbox 360
User Score
6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 4 out of 17
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  1. MrPositive
    May 11, 2011
    8
    This is why people that actually play the sports of these games should only do the reviewing. Top Spin 4 may be a better game experience, but it feels nothing like the tennis I played in college and futures. It's forced and nobody moves like that on a tennis court. Mini games aside virtua tennis 4 just feels far more like real tennis, and in the end, that's what it's all about in my book. Shrug.
  2. naughtyjames
    May 10, 2011
    6
    It's a massive improvement over VT3, but not a patch on the latest Top Spin 3. The "career" mode feels tacked on at the last minute, however it is really easy to pick up and play, but does get devilishly harder on you as you progress.
  3. dayer
    May 10, 2011
    7
    Good family entertainment, pick up and play, no huge amounts of skill required, the kinect feature is a joke and the only real way to play is with the controller...disappointing as my kids wanted it for the kinect feature.
    online is a bit hit and miss, can be very laggy and unresponsive in comparison to arcade/exhibition/sp mode, overall though it's fun to play which is the most important    Good family entertainment, pick up and play, no huge amounts of skill required, the kinect feature is a joke and the only real way to play is with the controller...disappointing as my kids wanted it for the kinect feature.
    online is a bit hit and miss, can be very laggy and unresponsive in comparison to arcade/exhibition/sp mode, overall though it's fun to play which is the most important thing, ohh and it looks nice graphically.    … Expand
  4. Talex
    Jul 28, 2013
    0
    Virtua Tennis 4 is the worst tennis game around. The career mode is terrible. It plays like a board game, requires luck rather than skill, and can only be played once, before you lose all of your progress and start again from scratch. The tennis itself is poor also. No sports game can be taken seriously if it has power-ups.
    On the plus-side, it doesn't look completely terrible. But the    Virtua Tennis 4 is the worst tennis game around. The career mode is terrible. It plays like a board game, requires luck rather than skill, and can only be played once, before you lose all of your progress and start again from scratch. The tennis itself is poor also. No sports game can be taken seriously if it has power-ups.
    On the plus-side, it doesn't look completely terrible. But the other flaws cancel that our massively. This is abysmal.    … Expand
  5. dietjes
    Sep 3, 2013
    1
    stupid game,career mode is teribble,players don't look good.top spin game is a lot better.
    gameplay is teribble,the 4 grandslams don't look so good as in top spin
  6. BAPACop
    Feb 28, 2014
    2
    I sincerely hope that whoever decided that fancy animations should have priority over responsive controls never works in the game industry again. The number of times I have lost matches because the game felt the need to play a fancy windup is far too large, and that's not counting the times the game waits a full second before even registering a button press, if it bothers to register it atI sincerely hope that whoever decided that fancy animations should have priority over responsive controls never works in the game industry again. The number of times I have lost matches because the game felt the need to play a fancy windup is far too large, and that's not counting the times the game waits a full second before even registering a button press, if it bothers to register it at all. Even attempting the special move performed by filling your meter simply does nothing more than half the time. Even ignoring the fact that World Tour is based solely on your luck with the RNG, this game is basically unplayable because every time you try to do anything you have to cross your fingers and hope the game is going to bother to register it.… Expand
  7. Pedro3141592
    Sep 4, 2020
    8
    I really like this game, however I think the career mode is not verry good at all
  8. vastly_local
    May 25, 2023
    8
    In a Sega Virtua Tennis vacuum, this entry in the series leans hard on the smooth and sharp graphics at 1080p 60fps like most Japanese games of the era but the pace of the action is slower and the career mode is more stagnated than previous entries which makes for a more boring game. If we compare this game to all the other tennis games that were released after VT4 came out, we simple justIn a Sega Virtua Tennis vacuum, this entry in the series leans hard on the smooth and sharp graphics at 1080p 60fps like most Japanese games of the era but the pace of the action is slower and the career mode is more stagnated than previous entries which makes for a more boring game. If we compare this game to all the other tennis games that were released after VT4 came out, we simple just cannot ignore the fact that VT4 is literally the last game to have a proper and believable tennis motion and this is coming from a tennis player. This although is my personal opinion as I prefer Virtua Tennis to Top Spin precisely for that reason.… Expand

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 37
  3. Negative: 1 out of 37
  1. GameCritics
    Jul 14, 2011
    50
    At the end of the day, Virtua Tennis 4 is a game that trades largely on its lineage-but given that this game, like VT2009, continues to muck up a really good formula, it's hard to imagine gamers continuing to be forgiving of Sega's recurring missteps.
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  2. XboxAddict
    Jun 22, 2011
    84
    For what it's worth, however, this is a fantastic game by every stretch of the imagination. Those who have waited 4 years for another installment will not be disappointed.
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  3. Worth Playing
    Jun 15, 2011
    65
    Given such a large gap between Virtua Tennis 3 and this entry, you would hope that we'd see considerable improvements and a nearly flawless experience. Instead, we have yet another mediocre sports game with a bit of squandered potential.
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