Top Spin 3

Top Spin 3 includes more than 25 of the world's top tennis superstars including Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, Maria Sharapova, James Blake, and many others. With all-new action-packed features including signature player animations and expressions, weather changes, situation-specific behaviors, along with revamped audio with enhanced crowd reaction, Top Spin 3 serves up a realistic and exciting tennis video game experience.

Released: 20 June 2008
Platforms: Nintendo DS PlayStation 3 Wii Xbox 360
Genres: Simulation Sports Tennis
Developers: PAM Development
Publishers: 2K Sports
Series: Top Spin
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Party
Country: France
Age ratings: ESRB E CERO A
Languages: English
Entry: #3 in Top Spin

About

Top Spin 3 is the third title in the Top Spin series of video games. The game was developed by PAM Development and published by 2K. New game elements include real-time weather effects, more options of professional tennis players, an in-depth character creation tool and new unparalleled gameplay mechanics. It also features impressive advancements in an audio/visual sense with improved Dolby Digital surround sound and "Evolutionary" visuals. Top Spin 4 was released as a sequel about three years later.

Keywords

tennis
achievements
online
artificial intelligence
sequel
tournament
box art - real photos
playstation trophies
polygonal 3d
motion control
licensed soundtrack
character creation

Media

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Reception

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the DS and Wii versions received "mixed or average reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported and published by D3 Publisher for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions on July 30, 2009; for the Wii version on September 3, 2009; and for the DS version on October 15, 2009, Famitsu gave it a score of two sevens, one eight and one seven for the first two console versions, and one seven, one six, one seven and one six for the DS version; while Famitsu Xbox 360 gave the game a score of one six and three sevens for a total of 27 out of 40.

It was a nominee for Best Sports Game for the Nintendo DS by IGN for their 2008 video game awards.