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SEGA Superstars Tennis for Xbox 360
SEGA Superstars Tennis for Xbox 360 puts Sonic, AiAi, Ulala and other SEGA characters on the tennis court. You hit topspin shots, slices, lobs and drop shots and try to draw your opponent out of position. The power of a shot also depends on where you stand in relation to the ball. Preparing early therefore helps more than repeatedly reaching for the same button. During a rally, you choose between building pressure from the baseline and approaching the net to finish a short ball.
Good play fills the star beneath your character. Once it is full, you can temporarily activate a unique Superstar power. This special move changes the course of a rally and calls for the right moment. Planet Superstars links matches, tournaments and mini-games to worlds from other SEGA games. You complete challenges and unlock content including characters, courts and music. The challenges use the same tennis controls but give each rally a different objective beyond simply winning the next point in the match.
For an individual match, you set the number of games and sets, the court and the participants. Singles revolves around your positioning; in doubles you must also leave room for your partner. Up to four people can play locally at once, each using an Xbox 360 controller. The familiar game worlds and special powers give ordinary tennis rallies a different setting.
Region and language
Our Xbox 360 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
SEGA Superstars Tennis for Xbox 360 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of SEGA Superstars Tennis
SEGA released SEGA Superstars Tennis for the European Xbox 360 in 2008. Sumo Digital developed the game, using its experience with SEGA tennis games to bring together characters from different series. The October 2007 announcement already named Sonic, AiAi, Ulala and Amigo. Their origins shaped not only their appearance but also the courts and special abilities chosen for them. Tennis matches thus gained recognisable references to platform games, rhythm games and other parts of SEGA's history.
The finished game brought together sixteen playable characters and ten themed courts. Green Hill referenced Sonic, while other settings drew their atmosphere from games such as Space Channel 5. Temporary Superstar powers made the differences between characters visible during play. Beneath those effects, positioning, making contact with the ball and finding an open angle remained the foundations. The collection of mini-games also worked as a series of short encounters with the game worlds on which the tournament was based.
Planet Superstars gave that collection an ongoing structure. Unlocking new participants, courts and music connected individual challenges to longer-term progress. At the same time, custom matches remained a separate way to play tennis together. This combination placed SEGA Superstars Tennis between a sports game and a celebration of familiar game characters. Using ordinary controllers and local doubles, a group on Xbox 360 could also explore that collection together outside the challenges, choosing their own participants and match settings each time.
Similar games for Xbox 360
Virtua Tennis 3 for Xbox 360 calls for timing, placement and coordination with a doubles partner, just like SEGA Superstars Tennis. The difference starts with the participants: Namco uses real tennis professionals and tournaments such as Wimbledon, while SEGA brings together game characters and worlds. In Smash Court, you try to win points with ordinary tennis shots. SEGA adds temporary Superstar powers and challenges with different objectives, so you also need to react to special effects.
Top Spin 2 for Xbox 360 shares the choice between singles and doubles and also lets you create space using different shots. Its longer progression follows a custom tennis player trying to advance through training and tournaments. SEGA Superstars Tennis spreads its challenges across familiar game worlds and rewards you with unlockable content. You therefore do not build a comparable sporting career; the variety comes from characters, themed courts and short challenges with objectives of their own.
Smash Court Tennis 3 for Xbox 360 combines recognisable tennis professionals with a Pro Tour in which you create a player. Like SEGA Superstars Tennis, it offers doubles and separate opportunities to practise your shots. Namco focuses its longer route on rankings and the development of that custom tennis player. SEGA emphasises challenges in familiar game worlds and special powers. Both give individual matches an ongoing context, but their rewards and main characters are clearly different.
Virtua Tennis 2009 for Xbox 360 shares colourful characters and a focus on directly controlled tennis matches with SEGA Superstars Tennis. In both, you can unlock other characters and courts and play doubles together. Virtua Tennis 2009 uses its own cast of exaggerated tennis characters. In SEGA's game, you instead recognise Sonic and other established game heroes, with courts referencing their original worlds. Superstar powers and themed mini-games also give that familiarity a particular role during play.
Top Spin 3 for Xbox 360 shares quick reactions, shot selection and the search for open space with SEGA Superstars Tennis. Both also let you play doubles. Top Spin 3 uses real tennis professionals and lets you train a custom player and enter tournaments in World Tour. SEGA Superstars Tennis uses its familiar game characters for special abilities and varied challenges. The same sport thus leads to a different roster, presentation and approach to longer-term progress.
