Table Tennis (X360)
Developer: Rockstar San Diego
Platform: Xbox 360
Release Date: May 22, 2006
It's just about the last thing you'd expect to see the Rockstar Games logo on. Seriously, a table tennis game? Where's all the "underground cool" of Midnight Club? Or the terrific, biting satire of Grand Theft Auto? Nope, forget it. Sincerity is the new irony, and Rockstar has a compelling and seemingly gag-free sports game on its hands with Table Tennis for the Xbox 360.
Gameplay Movie 2
Even when it's being filmed off of a screen, Table Tennis still looks great.
You've seen all those wicked fast-paced table tennis matches on TV before, right? From what we've seen so far, this Xbox 360 game appears to be well-equipped to handle that same sort of high-speed action, while delivering a similar experience to what you'd find in a more traditional tennis game. On top of that, it looks great. The character models and animation are really impressive.
While the only options available to us during the show were single-player and local two-player matches, the game will have online support, as well. If the game can maintain that crazy pace over the Internet, this one could be a pretty exciting Xbox Live game, too. While it may not have been the most traditional sports game on the floor, and it certainly comes from a surprising place, Table Tennis stood out to us as the most exciting sports game at E3 2006.
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