Android 15, iPhone love. Sega has just announced that its flagship sports title Virtua Tennis will be heading to Android, with a first preview next week at CES in Las Vegas. It’s been designed with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play’s controls in mind, and been optimized for phones with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, typically used by both Sony Ericsson and HTC.
As predictably as a British wildcard crashing out valiantly in the early stages of Wimbledon comes Virtua Tennis 4. “Another Virtua Tennis game?” you say. Ah, but this one’s different, and not just because it features PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect functionality. Is Virtua Tennis 4 the best in the series yet? Read our review to find out…
Virtua Tennis 4 is the latest edition in the legendary gaming franchise, now sporting PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect motion controls and an overhauled World Tour mode just in time for Wimbledon 2011. Could the new features make Virtua Tennis 4 the best in the series yet? We took a swing at it ahead of release later this month: check out our preview to find out what we made of it.
Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s Motion Controller are both gearing up for their respective console launches, expected in 2010. Developers are just now getting their mitts on the first dev kits and at this early stage there are few going spare, but it sounds like Sega’s MD for European development, Gary Dunn, wants one rather badly. In a recent interview, Dunn stated, “Both systems offer us so many opportunities to do great things with videogames. I immediately now want to make another Virtua Tennis.”
