Rockstar's Table Tennis came out this week, and I picked it up last night with a store credit I had at Best Buy. The player models look great, and the movements all look very natural. Sound seems pretty well done too, particularly the ambient noise in the arena. A couple times I paused the game thinking someone was talking outside my front door. ;-)
I started off with the player I thought had the best stats, and went through the first tournament pretty quickly. On to the next level of difficulty, I get through the first player ok, just with slightly longer rallies. Then the second player just mops the floor with me, it was horrible. I try a rematch, almost win the first game, but he takes that one, then cleans me out on the second game. So that's a bit rough, I may have to try someone else.
The pace of the game seems pretty good, there are lots of times where the action goes pretty quick, and I've had a few good long rallies going - longest was 54 shots I think (it tracks quite a few stats). Spin seems like it's handled pretty well too. When the ball comes back to you it often has a differnt color halo (for lack of a better word) around it depending on the kind of spin it has, so you can decide what kind of spin to put on your return shot.
I haven't tried playing online yet, but I'll try a few matches this week to see just how bad I am compared to all the other people that have had this for...a day or two.
Fwiw, I heard Fry's has the game for $30 right now if someone wanted to spend actual money on it.
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