I youtubed it ^_^

Very nice

wow dead news e3 so far.

heres a handful of thoughts from diff peeps at the e3 floor.



Gamers Platform says....


E3 09: Grand Slam Tennis Hands-On
“Oh boy! Tennis!” Those were my thoughts as I walked up to play EA’s Grands Slam Tennis, which uses Nintendo’s new Motion Plus device. As a tennis player, I was expecting a more life-like experience when compared to Wii Sports’ Tennis…I was quite disappointed. I noticed the ability to control ball placement, but that’s about it. In order to lob, you press “A” and for dropshots, you press “B.” Another difference from Wii Sports Tennis is that the nunchuck can be used to control the movement of the character. I played without the nunchuck, so the character moved toward the ball automatically. Other than that, the game, while fun, did not take full advantage of Motion Plus capabilities and because of this, the tennis experience still lacks an element of realism that would make this game super awesomely fun.




Mercury news...


* I experienced a similarly frustrating controller issue with the new “Grand Slam Tennis” game, which uses the Wii’s new MotionPlus. Overall, the game was fun and you quickly got into the action of hitting the ball. The remote senses if you are trying to put a spin on the ball and will allow you to execute a drop shot or lob.

But if I swung back my racket too quickly in preparing to hit the ball, the game thought I’d executed a full swing, and my character would be left flailing well before I wanted him to swing.



Operation Sports' Chase Bescotte


"Grand Slam Tennis

The game comes out next week, but I know some people were wondering what was going on in the "career mode" department.

First a couple little details:

-The career mode lasts 10 in-game years.
-Your player will be rated on a five-star scale.
-You create your own tennis pro before hopping into this mode.

OK, so within this mode you will only play at the four Grand Slam venues, but there are different courts within each venue. So you won't be playing on center court when you are a one-star bum, but you will be playing on it when you are a five-star stud.

But just because you are playing at these Grand Slam venues all the time, you are not actually in the French Open or Wimbledon tournaments at the start of the mode. Instead, you will be playing exhibition matches against generic players, rather than Nadal or Sampras. As you get better, you will unlock stuff (see: apparel) and eventually you will qualify for the Grand Slam tournaments.

At this point, you will then be facing off against some of the legends and some of the best tennis players in the world. In addition, if you beat someone like Nadal at the French Open, you will also acquire his speed ability. Simply put, if you beat the best players, you get their special attributes. Basically, it seems like your created pro will be like a sports version of Mega Man."



The Telegraph

What else? Tiger Woods with the Wii Motion Plus felt scarily effective – Virtua Tennis 2009 less so. Grand Slam Tennis was somewhere in the middle, although it was hard to get the space needed to really swing. Wii Tennis-style wrist flicks just don't cut it any more when you have the Plus attached.

"That said, it’s also a game that show off the frustrations; players are not able to finesse their shots in any way, with the only variations of stroke being power and direction, and the game itself has that jokey, childish quality shared by many early Wii titles.
Wii fans have been waiting for a tennis game that still maintains the fun and frivolity of the Wii while improving the gameplay experience: it’s game, set and match for EA’s Grand Slam Tennis on both counts.
The game takes full advantage of the more precise control mechanism afforded by Nintendo’s Wii Motion Plus controller add-on, enabling players to put slice and spin on shots. The set-up of strokes is crucially important; positioning and poise is key, and players must follow through much as they would in real-life tennis to affect the flight of the ball. The enhanced controller can also detect subtle differences in the power and direction of shots, as well as their depth."

cem_ea_id.tommyfusco wrote:heres a handful of thoughts from diff peeps at the e3 floor.

I'm sure the MotionPlus is not perfect, and there will be things we wish it could do but doesn't, but you have to take into account that these posters probably did not have the chance to spend enough time to truly learn the nuances of the game with MotionPlus.

If the advanced control is closer to 1:1, then it stands to reason that doing well in the game will be difficult (and perhaps frustrating) until you spend enough time learning the game in depth. Gamers Platform didn't even try it out with the Nunchuk, so I'll take these previews with a grain of salt.

cem_ea_id.MiamiHeat2008 wrote:

cem_ea_id.tommyfusco wrote:heres a handful of thoughts from diff peeps at the e3 floor.

I'm sure the MotionPlus is not perfect, and there will be things we wish it could do but doesn't, but you have to take into account that these posters probably did not have the chance to spend enough time to truly learn the nuances of the game with MotionPlus.

If the advanced control is closer to 1:1, then it stands to reason that doing well in the game will be difficult (and perhaps frustrating) until you spend enough time learning the game in depth. Gamers Platform didn't even try it out with the Nunchuk, so I'll take these previews with a grain of salt.

Miami Heat...

I hope you are right.
I will have my copy by Saturday so I hope I can help out some gamers here on their purchase with a Q&A.

NZgamers thoughts from the battlefield.....


The Good: Motion Plus feels better.

The Bad: The level of skill and concentration means you can't be lazy.

The Ugly: Without Motion Plus it's still just Wii Tennis.

After the introduction to Wii Tennis at EA's press conference I was keen to have a go on the show floor. And yeah, much of the had to do with the Pete Sampras cameo. What can I say? I'm easily persuaded by a celebrity cameo.

Grand Slam Tennis was pitched by EA as a much deeper, more nuanced tennis title, built to cater to the demands of those who loved the tennis game from Wii Sports but found it a little basic. You play the game in generally the same way - serve by raising your Wiimote, then play with a series of concise lunges. Development team EA Canada have mixed it up a bit by adding a drop shot (controlled by the B button) and a lob (A), bringing a little bit of variety to your game - although if you were rubbish at Wii Tennis, you're still going to be rubbish now, as the fundamental gameplay feels very much the same. The game is apparently built to detect, and cater to, your own personal playing style, but if that style is simply waggling your controller in the direction of the ball, nothing much will change.

That is however, before you attach Wii Motion Plus. This was the first time I played with the little attachment, and although the difference is subtle, it feels much more accurate than the standard Wiimote. I felt more in control with Motion Plus, but also more vulnerable. Wii Motion Plus is all about angle - you can now slice the ball (I did), send a powerhouse shot to the very edge of the court (I did) and make the conscious decision to play a forehand or a backhand.

This is where Grand Slam Tennis feels MADE for Motion-Plus, because it actually made me think, and strategise, about my tennis game. You have to be careful though - the aforementioned vulnerability kicked in when I realised just how precise my shots were being copied by my onscreen avatar. Wii Tennis has made me lazy, and the pin-point ball placement with Wii Motion Plus means I couldn't just half-heartedly waggle the Wiimote at the screen. After whacking the ball out of the court one too many times, I found myself forced into playing a much more physical game, crouching down and really concentrating on what I was doing with my virtual racket. Real life tennis players will be good at this. Sampras was.

The game also feels more authentic than Wii Tennis, with a bigger crowd presence, audio taken from actual Grand Slam matches, and real-life venues. There's a 23 player line up, too, and the EA rep was keen to point out the inclusion of John McEnroe, who's exclusive to the title. You can also build your own character from the ground up, and the game encourages you to invent and design your own tennis player and take them through the Grand Slam Career, or jump online to play with a buddy. Just like almost every EA title shown at E3 this year (bar Brutal Legend, maybe) there's also a calorie checker, so you can see how much you're burning as you lunge across the living room. Realistic indeed.

cem_ea_id.tommyfusco wrote:
Miami Heat...

I hope you are right.
I will have my copy by Saturday so I hope I can help out some gamers here on their purchase with a Q&A.

Hey, how are you getting it by Saturday? I thought it wasn't even shipping until the 8th.

Not necessarily

I used to work at Circuit City, and we had games in our warehouse on a friday...and the games were to be released on tuesday, they came packaged in boxes saying "no sale until XX/XX/XXXX"

exactly.
mom and pops stores rock


not too excited bout the career mode news that there is only four slams and everything lese just exhibitions on outer courts and challenges from legends.

still no word on 128 player draws.

but on the good note, there r generics and its a 10 year season, tho i have a feeling its short lol

In order to lob, you press “A” and for dropshots, you press “B.”

This is very disappointing. It was said earlier that you would need to press buttons to make lobs and drop shots if you didn't have motionplus. With mp, it would be enough to simply mimic the strokes.

cem_ea_id.Bradbury wrote:In order to lob, you press “A” and for dropshots, you press “B.”

This is very disappointing. It was said earlier that you would need to press buttons to make lobs and drop shots if you didn't have motionplus. With mp, it would be enough to simply mimic the strokes.

So why is it disappointing. You can do drop shots with the mp without using the a and b buttons he obviously didnt use those...

more news, this an in depth hands on with wii motion plus.

some glaring problems lie with the implementation as u will read

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/wii-motionplus-hands-on

they did say the main mode [career] was surprisingly deep.

gst demo video from inside blog

http://insideblog.easports.com/archive/2009/06/04/ea-sports-at-e3-grand-slam-tennis-demo.aspx

tommyfusco when you are quoting outside sources it is the right thing to do to link to them!


http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/blog/article/3792/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/e3-2009/5443592/E3-2009-Preview-of-EA-Sports-Grand-Slam-Tennis.html

http://nzgamer.com/e3/previews/763/e3-grand-slam-tennis-hands-on.html