Who doesn’t like playing tennis? The question is being asked once again on The Game Worm, but this time its all about Smash Court Tennis 3 for the PlayStation Portable.
The upcoming game not only promises to offer an enjoyable match of tennis, but also adds some quite detailed character progression and a number of inventive minigames in which you can hone your skills. The well-presented menu that greets you the first time you play Smash Court Tennis 3 has plenty of gameplay options for you to choose from. The game has a series of 24 tutorials after which you may put your hands on exhibition matches, the tournament-based arcade mode, the lengthy pro tour career mode, or one of three minigames. Talking about Shots there are a lot of options like the “easy shots” that need a very little control over the ball can be performed simply by pushing a face button when you want to hit the ball, but “nice shots” and “hard hits” require precise timing on your part. Other than these shots there are 4 shots namely the topspin shots, flat shots, lob shots, and slice shots which can be performed by the PSP’s four face.

Making the player feel like your own unique creation the game gives you various options for customization while creating a new character on which will depend the characteristics of the player you created. At the end of each tournament, assuming you weren’t eliminated in the first round, you’ll be awarded a number of experience points that can be used to enhance your player’s skills or improving basic attributes that lend themselves to certain styles of play, such as ground stroke, technical, footwork, and serve and volley.

Smash Court Tennis 3 has three (that we know of) minigames such as Bomb Tennis drops bombs that can be detonated with a well-placed shot on your opponent’s side of the court every time they miss a shot, Galaga Tennis tasks you with destroying spaceships and rescuing abducted tennis players while playing an otherwise quite conventional match and Pac-Man Tennis challenges both players to avoid ghosts while running around the court and using the ball to collect Pac-dots.

Smash Court Tennis 3 is currently scheduled for release this summer.

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