Features
Virtua Tennis 2009 enhanced all of the features from VT3 although some are mostly kept the same:
- New create-a-player system is improved and fun to use as giving out the birthday date, a new posture feature to choose player service stances, waiting positions and others. (A player may enter the first and last names like the other players; e.g. Lewis Bentley)
- New players such as Ana Ivanovic, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Svetlana Kuznetsova as well as legends like Boris Becker and Tim Henman. (Henman is chosen to be the player's coach)
- Enhanced courts and new-operated ball boys and ball girls (A similar feature in Smash Court Tennis 3.)
- New environment sounds, crowds, background music and low-pitched grunts.
- Two new camera views with Normal view: Audience view. and a Low-view camera better known as over-the-shoulder camera
- All new online-ranking system. A player can join and play with friends and in-game opponents to maintain ranking (No online play is available on the PC version)
- New home-select feature with nationality-detector (the player's nationality depends on their home).
- It has a new weather-system that makes clouds move.
- There is a new generated 3D crowd and people. They move and cheer whenever players give a winning shot and they also make noise whenever the players stumble during long rallies.
- Court Feature: New speed of balls like high and slow balls in clay courts, faster and lower in hard and grass courts.
- Dives from the male players is now replaced by a stumble for less recovery and less chance of noise.
- Smashes from lobs of other players could be now missed more for more realism.
- Service or serves is now sensitive to control especially in Wii for harder control of making MAX serve to make it more realistic.
- Service sometimes goes out, goes wide, etc. to make it more realistic.
- When turning off in-game or match music, it gives the player more concentration and more realistic experience.
- Items are not anymore collected from tournaments and may buy them in the tennis shop.
- Extra Feature: Tennis Store: Players can use money earned in tournaments to purchase equipment such as racquets and clothing in stores.
- Tennis stars have more details and their features are more realistic.
- There is a new Main Menu design and changed Character Selection screen.
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