And after years of player feedback, EA is finally getting rid of them in FIFA 21. EA Sports discovered that most players never made use of “training items” (found in Ultimate Team packs), which worked in a similar manner to Tennis World Tour's “skill cards”. Still, it's terrible game design - and worse, it's entirely unnecessary. At least you can't buy in-game currency this time around, unlike the microtransactions model present in the first Tennis World Tour game. Moreover, these skill cards are found in packs that you must buy with in-game currency, just as with FIFA Ultimate Team. You can reduce their shot or serve precision, while improving yours. Just like the 2018 poorly-received original, Tennis World Tour 2 features a variety of “skill cards” that can be activated during matches, allowing you to boost your player's values or even affect your opponent's attributes for a limited time. Tennis World Tour 2 is certainly a safer take on the sport than the original was, but sometimes you’ve just got to land a shot in court to stay in the rally.Tennis World Tour 2 allows you to “cheat” at the game, which feels like it's missing the point. There’s a definite learning curve as you settle into the groove to find the right shot timing rally after rally, and from that point on the strategy of a point, game, set and match can start to come to the fore. Putting all of this in practice, Tennis World Tour 2 plays a decent game of tennis once you get used to it. This mode can also be taken online, with two players to a console, though strangely not with players spread across four consoles. There’s also doubles, which was conspicuous by its absence from the first game, and adds a very different style of tennis to the game, where lightning fast reactions are needed to win. One neat addition is the ability to save and resume a match, letting you line up a five set epic without also having to carve out a few hours of uninterrupted time in order to finish it. A Tournament section will feature the as yet unannounced licensed tournaments, as well as a Tie Break Tens mode for ultra-fast quick-fire matches. The game launches with a decent selection of game modes, from exhibition matches to a career and online. Hopefully the final weeks of polish can help smooth out some of the rougher edges here. There can be snaps from one animation to another, I sometimes felt that the game didn’t want to let me change direction once I spotted that a drop shot was coming in, and it definitely felt like there was just a single animation for losing a point.
The other thing I can’t shake is that, even with the promise of twice as many character animations in the game, there’s still a certain rigidity to the players and the actions they take on court. Some cards, however, affect and diminish your opponent and it’s this that feels a bit too game-like about the system, in my opinion.Īt the very least, all of the percentage-based buffs and debuffs mean that they’re relatively slight modifiers, and despite them being picked out of packs bought from a store on the main menu, you can only earn in-game currency from actually playing the game, not microtransactions. You can select five cards and trigger them them mid-match, letting you boost your player in Endurance, Power, Precision and Agility.
The cards system also returns, intending to add more variability to a match and capturing the way that a close game can swing back and forth, but has been reworked to be a more active part of gameplay instead of being more passive buffs. You can see the stamina levels of both yourself and your opponent draining through longer rallies and service games, potentially giving you a lifeline as unforced errors creep into their game or pushing you to play more conservatively. Tennis World Tour 2 retains some of those more strategic elements from the original, with player stamina having an impact through a match. Get it your second button press just right, and the shot is straighter and with more power. Simpler to grasp is the new serve system, with an initial gauge swinging from left to right above your player to time your toss and serving action. There’s a rhythm to it, and it’s this that I struggled to consistently get right, but there was always instant feedback from the game to say whether I was on time, too early or too late. Get the timing wrong and your accuracy can be way off, either dropping the ball short without enough power, or flying long and losing you the point, but get the timing just right and you’ll hit the sweet spot, able to nail the white line and put your opponent under pressure. As you position yourself on the court, you power up your shot (whether flat, top spin, slice, lob or whatever0, letting go at hopefully just the right time to swing and send the ball flying back across the court.
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