July 5, 2007 - The great Stefan Edberg once said that many people think of tennis as a game of hitting, meaning that the player with superior strokes, skills, and overall tennis talent would rule the day each and every time out onto the court. Edberg, in all his great serve-and-volleying wisdom, instead said that tennis was a game of speed, a game of running and movement, and more importantly, footwork. Sadly, Mr. Edberg didn't have his hand in the development of Namco's latest tennis title, Smash Court Tennis 3, which has professional tennis players moving at a snail's pace. Even still, the tennis action is functional and reasonably fun, just so long as you aren't expecting the next installment of the fast and furious Virtua Tennis.
On its outermost layer, Smash Court Tennis 3 (SCT3 for short) has all the trimmings to be a solid tennis offering. There's an arcade mode where you can set up a sequence of matches between your favorite pro players, an exhibition mode for a one-time match up, and a challenge mode where you can play tennis variants like Pac-Man, Galaga, and Bomb tennis, all of which provide an excellent distraction when the sim action gets a little dull. The list is rounded out by an Ad Hoc multiplayer option, and Pro Tour, which is the focal point and real meat of the game.
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