Virtua Tennis 4 (Kinect) offers an exuberant Kinect mode that initially impresses. As you twist and adjust the Move wand in your hand the racket matches you perfectly on the screen.
The sense of connection is impressive and touches on Wii-Sports Resort table tennis and Sports Champions' one-to-one relationship between the controller and the on-screen character. This not only adds a sense of geographic placement on the court but also provides sight of the racket in your hands. As the ball approaches your player the camera flies down to a first-person perspective. Rather than remaining in a third-person perspective, as we are used to in other motion controlled sports games (and really, Grand Slam Tennis and Wii-Sports Tennis are my only points of reference here) the additional graphical horsepower is put to impressive use. Even without being integrated into the main game and a lackluster application of spin, the joy of real tennis is convincingly recreated for those with a genuine interest in the sport.The Move controls themselves turn out to be much more exciting though. Virtua Tennis 4 (Move) creates a realistic tennis experience with its new PS3 Move controls.
