Good game but i think i‘m done with sports games in general. Online matches are where the long term motivation should be, but for me the min/max of stats is just not fun anymore in the age of everyone just googling the best set up. I rather do the real thing.
TopSpin 2K25,
Review
I have dabbled in some of these Tennis games and I got weirdly excited that 2K who have done mostly a great job with the NBA franchise (except the micro transactions) take on Tennis.
As a gameplay experience I have mostly enjoyed my time with TopSpin 2K25, playing the game on the PS5 is very satisfying as it has a surprising amount of Duelsense support. Menus, sounds on the court and the action of hitting a ball can all come through the speaker on the controller which makes this pretty immersive. The amount of customisation options is solid enough and working my way through the career mode is a little too much on the simple side but it has been satisfying ranking my prodigy up to becoming the greatest Tennis player who ever lived. I also really like the diversity of venues, there are so many different stadiums and the different surfaces all feel varied enough to play on where you notice a difference.
However, I think while all this makes for a promising start I think TopSpin 2K25 could have done a lot more. There are barely any real players in this game which is pretty disappointing in career mode. I also think apart from career mode there is barely anything to do, there are just regular exhibition games which no one plays in single player, the online mode is quite basic and they have the training academy as one of the key features which I mean c'mon its a training mode. I also think some of the directional controls aren't fine tuned as well as they could be, I especially noticed this in the practice mode where you have to specifically aim your shots in certain places. You could land it perfectly and be aiming where you want and sometimes it still doesn't go that way making progression a bit of a chore. In the future I also want the Career mode to be a lot more ambitious than what we got because once you hit a certain point it gets really repetitive and boring which is something I never really found in NBA2K.
Overall, TopSpin 2K25 is an OK start for this potential yearly franchise but I think more needs to be done. At times I couldn't help but notice that this feels like an ambitious demo of a full game rather than a full game in of itself. This game is fun for about 8-10 hours of Tennis action but you will probably get burnt out afterwards.
Review
I have dabbled in some of these Tennis games and I got weirdly excited that 2K who have done mostly a great job with the NBA franchise (except the micro transactions) take on Tennis.
As a gameplay experience I have mostly enjoyed my time with TopSpin 2K25, playing the game on the PS5 is very satisfying as it has a surprising amount of Duelsense support. Menus, sounds on the court and the action of hitting a ball can all come through the speaker on the controller which makes this pretty immersive. The amount of customisation options is solid enough and working my way through the career mode is a little too much on the simple side but it has been satisfying ranking my prodigy up to becoming the greatest Tennis player who ever lived. I also really like the diversity of venues, there are so many different stadiums and the different surfaces all feel varied enough to play on where you notice a difference.
However, I think while all this makes for a promising start I think TopSpin 2K25 could have done a lot more. There are barely any real players in this game which is pretty disappointing in career mode. I also think apart from career mode there is barely anything to do, there are just regular exhibition games which no one plays in single player, the online mode is quite basic and they have the training academy as one of the key features which I mean c'mon its a training mode. I also think some of the directional controls aren't fine tuned as well as they could be, I especially noticed this in the practice mode where you have to specifically aim your shots in certain places. You could land it perfectly and be aiming where you want and sometimes it still doesn't go that way making progression a bit of a chore. In the future I also want the Career mode to be a lot more ambitious than what we got because once you hit a certain point it gets really repetitive and boring which is something I never really found in NBA2K.
Overall, TopSpin 2K25 is an OK start for this potential yearly franchise but I think more needs to be done. At times I couldn't help but notice that this feels like an ambitious demo of a full game rather than a full game in of itself. This game is fun for about 8-10 hours of Tennis action but you will probably get burnt out afterwards.
Forces you to create a 2k account to play online, even if you don't plan on doing so. Then forces you to link the 2k account to your console account. This adds so much impediment to gaming when you should be able to download/insert disc and start playing.
The game itself has bad controls. The shot meter goes too fast to ever get a Perfect shot by anything other than luck. The same control is for both player movement and shot aiming so good luck if you want to aim in the opposite direction. Finding out when the control switch over is frustrating, having your player double back early or send a shot straight for your opponent to finish.
The game itself has bad controls. The shot meter goes too fast to ever get a Perfect shot by anything other than luck. The same control is for both player movement and shot aiming so good luck if you want to aim in the opposite direction. Finding out when the control switch over is frustrating, having your player double back early or send a shot straight for your opponent to finish.