Virtual tennis is not as popular as, for example, soccer or hockey simulators, but it has its admirers. It is to them we devote this selection, which gathered the most worthy games about tennis (large and table).
FULL ACE TENNIS SIMULATOR
We continue the topic of lawn tennis and offer you to get acquainted with the game Full Ace Tennis Simulator from the developers of the Galactic Gaming Guild. Deep and realistic gameplay, taking into account even the most minor details of the sport, offline and online modes, and much more awaits tennis fans in this great game.
TENNIS ELBOW (2013)
Tennis Elbow 2013 is a tennis ultimate without visual frills, but with the best game mechanics among all realistic tennis simulators. That’s because the game is created by people who love this sport and have dedicated a lot of their real life to it – the studio Mana Games.
The game features intuitive controls, tactical options, 300 tournaments with over 3,000 players, a variety of game modes, and much more.
ELEVEN: TABLE TENNIS VR
Table tennis simulator for VR with support for Player vs Player mode and the ability to play against the AI. Excellent table tennis simulation with elaborate physics and multiple difficulty modes – nothing extra.
FIRST PERSON TENNIS
First Person Tennis, requiring a VR helmet. Although First Person Tennis is in the early access, it is already able to impress with qualitative realized gameplay and its amazing atmosphere, faithfully conveying the feeling of being on a real tennis arena. Lots of modes, tournaments, split-mode and other must-have stuff is also present.
TENNIS ELBOW MANAGER SERIES
Let’s briefly pass from the topic of tennis simulators to managers. And among their insignificant number of attention deserves the project Elbow Manager from Mana Games. These guys have been very actively engaged in games about tennis (simulation games as well) for a long time, and have never given any reason to doubt the quality of their projects.
In Elbow Manager the player takes the role of a coach of several rising tennis stars and begins to solve the whole range of problems connected with this position: planning and conducting trainings, organizing matches, searching for sponsors, recruiting personnel and so on.
TOP SPIN SERIES
A series of games about lawn tennis, the first two parts of which are available for PC. But keep in mind that came out Top Spin and Top Spin 2 a long time ago – in 2003 and 2006, respectively, so that the model tennis players, their movements, and the whole visual part in general may seem very unassuming by modern standards.
But the outdated graphics does not prevent many gamers to refer the series to the best tennis simulators. You only need to look at the game’s Metacritic score or read what the most popular video game websites have to say about it. Top Spin is undoubtedly a classic of sports simulation on PC, just like Virtua Tennis which greatly influenced the development of the genre.
VIRTUA TENNIS SERIES
A series of arcade tennis games launched in 1999 by Sega. The last game of the series available on PC at the moment is Virtua Tennis 4. It was released in 2011 and is still considered to be one of the best.
We also recommend you to check out the previous game in the series – Virtua Tennis 2009, available on PC and Virtua Tennis 3 (also considered by some fans as the best game in the VT series). And the most recent game for the series as a whole, Virtua Tennis Challenge, appeared in 2012 and is only available for mobile platforms. After it, Sega put the Virtua Tennis series to “rest” and until now has not returned to it.
AO TENNIS 2
A good tennis simulator with all the mechanics. Here you can create your own player and start a career mode, playing alone or in co-op with a friend, or you can experience other modes such as: Legendary Matches, Trials and so on. In the process, you’ll get to meet sports stars including Ash Barty, Rafael Nadal, Angelique Kerber and others.
Another feature of AO Tennis 2 is the ability to customize almost all the options. Beginners can disable such options as realistic flight path, hitting power and so on. For fans of tennis we recommend to turn realism to maximum.
HYPERGALACTIC PSYCHIC TABLE TENNIS 3000
The game is noticeably different from the previously described tennis simulator. Instead of rackets there are rectangular platforms, and the game process at first resembles the old slot machine games. But as soon as the first game ends, you understand – it’s something crazy and unbelievable!