EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis Review

[aukevin]

Quote: Originally Posted by wEEman33

Serve strength is based entirely on timing. After you motion "up" to toss the ball, you want to make the "down" motion of your swing start when the ball is at its peak height in the air. Do it correctly and you'll notice an extra grunting noise comes out of your player.

My serve maxes out at 89 mph with my created player when I have the gold skill. If I have poor timing it is 50 mph. I tried adding the Dunlop racket that adds a serve boost but it didn't add any speed to my serve. My created player has 4.5 stars, but I don't think getting that 5th star will increase my serve speed, I wish it did though. I'd like to hit 95 mph.

[aukevin]

One more thing on the serve power when it comes to Grand Slam players. I created my guy as an All-Court player, a buddy of mine created his as a offensive baseliner. His guy can serve 86 mph without any kind of skill upgrade where my guy serves at 79 with no upgrade. His bad timing serve is 68 mph where mine is 50. So it seems the type player you start your guy as determines his strength in certain areas. When me and my buddy play online I have a real hard time because his player hits really hard. My character just can't get back into position fast enough even though he has gold shoes. And I'm not talking about having to go cross court, I mean he can't make the 3 steps to the side to return a shot because the speed the ball is coming at him. I think that has to do with his offensive baseliner setting, plus his gold forehand and backhand.

From what I can tell, you can't change your character type, otherwise I'd change mine off of All-Court.

[jyoung]

Yeah unfortunately you have to totally recreate your guy to change his player type.

And as you've mentioned, certain player types definitely have a big statistical advantage over others when it comes to things like hitting power and foot speed.

One of the few things VT 2009 does better than GST is that it lets you switch between the different created player styles whenever you want.

[NathalieBayeu]

If you can't get beyond AI level 2 it's a sign your overall skills are just not good enough.
Nunchuk play is by far and large the most accurate and if you haven't mastered that kind of play then better review another game.
On-line play is not the best, rather the worst part, considering the enormous mistakes on-line referees make from time to time and players miraculously recovering balls like dropshops that remain 'suspended' in the air.
"6,5" is in fact nothing else but a reflection of your own poor game skills.

I hope all of the minor issues will have vanished when the next edition of this addictive FITNESS (170-220 Kcal per hour!!!) game arrives.

[PhantomPain]

Quote: Originally Posted by NathalieBayeu

If you can't get beyond AI level 2 it's a sign your overall skills are just not good enough. Nunchuk play is by far and large the most accurate and if you haven't mastered that kind of play then better review another game. On-line play is not the best, rather the worst part, considering the enormous mistakes on-line referees make from time to time and players miraculously recovering balls like dropshops that remain 'suspended' in the air. "6,5" is in fact nothing else but a reflection of your own poor game skills. I hope all of the minor issues will have vanished when the next edition of this addictive FITNESS (170-220 Kcal per hour!!!) game arrives.

wow. great first post