Tennis, anyone?
User Rating: 7.5 | Sega Superstars Tennis X360
The first two things for me to say are that I do not play sports games and that I grew up playing the Genesis. That said, this game is great nostalgia for those of us who owned a Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast. References to Golden Axe, Sonic, OutRun, Puyo Pop, NiGHTS, The House of the Dead, Virtua Cop, Space Channel 5, Alex Kidd, and Super Monkey Ball are abundant and range from uber-nerd-flashbacks to oh-sweet-16-bit-sound-shut-this-crap-off-already! The tennis is pretty simple, but it will appeal to fans of arcade and caual sports titles. Some mini-games are incredible and recreate the original feel of the game nicely (collecting rings to earn the Chaos Emeralds or knocking Monkey Balls into goals), others are pleasantly bizarre (using tennis balls to kill zombies), and others are just dumb (the aiming in Virtua Squad is slow and tedious). I have been unable to find and play a match over XBL, but if you can get a friend to buy a copy, you could have a good time. Overall this game should have a lot of appeal to gamers like myself who had a Genesis for years. At $20 new, this game is worth the price. Non Genesis fans might give this game a rental.
