Top Spin 3 | 
 enlarge | From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $41.74
You Save: $8.25 (17%)
New (33) Used (4) from $34.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 268
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 34372
Model: 34372
UPC: 710425343728
EAN: 0710425343728
ASIN: B0013G0XZC
Release Date: June 23, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new. Never opened!
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| Features:
| • | Complete Wii Functionality | | • | Play With and Against Real Stars | | • | Fun Party Games | | • | Easy to Pick up and Play | | • | New Split-Screen Mode |
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Amazon.com
Top Spin 3 brings the fun, action packed excitement of tennis to your console with authentic features including signature styles and expressions for over 20 top ranked players, more than 40 real world venues, jaw-dropping graphics via all-new Evolutionary Visuals, and much more. Grab your racquet and prepare to be immersed in every game, set, and match in the most realistic and exciting tennis experience. Are you up to the challenge?
Product Description
Compete against the pros with Top Spin 3. Play online or offline to rise in the ranks against current top ranked professional players. This is a visually and physically realistic tennis experience. Using next generation technology, gameplay and graphics, Top Spin 3 features dynamic weather changes, evolutionary player visuals and comprehensive online offerings. With a unique user-generated component, you can also use new player creator features that include free-form body sculpting, makeup and tattoos.
Create matches online and test your skills against friends or other ranked players around the world
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Its a good wii game July 5, 2008
It's a not a Top Spin 3 for Wii, it's a good game of tennis for Wii. Is a mistake that 2K games promise it things for Wii version and finally the game dont have it.
But is a the best game of tennis for Wii of the moment.
 A Shoddy Tech Demo, but Full-Priced July 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a fan of playing tennis, I was very eager to try Top Spin 3. Since I use my Wii for exercise as well as entertainment, I like to play sports games -- especially tennis ones -- to get some activity. However, although I was initially looking forward very eagerly to Top Spin 3, I found that its execution was seriously lacking.
For one, there are only a handful of players even available, some of which aren't really all that intuitive to guess. I'm not a follower of professional tennis very closely, but even I could see that there are some glaring omissions. Also, there is no character creation, so the individual element is completely absent. They added a few original characters, but they somehow felt that they could not even include a rudimentary character creation mode? Sloppy.
What is most sloppy, however, and utterly disappointing is the game itself. No difficulty settings means that the unforgiving and often very bad control scheme has to be accustomed to on the fly. A pathetically inadequate tutorial does not excuse this fundamental omission. Furthermore, the controls themselves are as far from intuitive as possible; the controller is, for some reason, held sideways. The player's character moves on-screen in a stuttering mess that frequently prevents him from reaching an adequate point from which he may return the ball. The controls, which are supposed to mimic the player's own movements, rarely do this and are token at best. Typically you will try for a special shot exactly as the tutorial instructed, only to have it ignore your movements or misinterpret them.
That doesn't even begin to address the other fundamental problems it has, such as the fact that it doesn't feel like you actually control anything. Even the pop-up help instructs you to time your swings to match the on-screen player. Why, then, are we instructed to swing at all, if the game itself tries to anticipate our swing and then make us match theirs?
I thought that Top Spin 3 would surely be more satisfying than Sega Superstars Tennis which, while a pretty good game, lacked in tournaments and was too harsh when it came to unlockables through them. There also wasn't that much responsiveness depending on specific motions by the player, which Top Spin 3 was supposed to address. Unfortunately, however, it didn't. Sega Superstars Tennis remains a vastly superior game, both in entertainment value and tennis authenticity, even with the super moves.
To boot, Sega Superstars Tennis also had three control schemes, which Top Spin 3 would have benefited from; the movement in Top Spin 3 is atrocious and unresponsive at the worst times. Having an option to handle it automatically would have been a great relief. However, they opted for the extremely awkward option of holding the Wii remote sideways, for no valid reason.
All in all, Top Spin 3 plays like an unfinished tech demo that should never have left the studio. It's a poor excuse for a tennis game, but moreover it's a poor excuse for a game overall. With horrible music, barely adequate sound effects (and an absolutely gratingly annoying umpire/judge voice that belches out his calls), and mediocre graphics, it looks like an unfinished PS2 game that they thought they could slap a full asking price on and sell.
This game isn't even worth bargain bin trips. Give it a miss and buy Sega Superstars Tennis instead, or wait for a more satisfying realistic tennis game. Top Spin 3 isn't it. In fact, it isn't much of anything at all.
 Yes I'm Left Handed July 3, 2008
I have played every top spin, had fun, played for hours and finished the game. But they seemed to have forgotten all the things that make top spin fun when they made this WII game. Custom characters, drop shots, overheads, lobs, slice, lots of characters to play, left handed support, levels, training tutorials... all missing (or working badly). I'm glad I just rented this one. It's going back early. One extra star for the music.
 Not tooooo badd.... July 2, 2008
This game isn't the worst game but it's not amazing. The gameplay takes a bit to get used to and the way you hold the Wiimote is really awkward. It is a fun game with all the swinging motion to hit the ball and stuff. I do wish that you could create a player like Top Spin. I think since Microsoft gave it's rights to 2K Sports, the game just isn't as good. Would recommend if you like to play real tennis. This works if it's raining outside and you want to play tennis.
Greatly disappointed July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is greatly disappointing. The primary problem I had was that you have to play with the numchuck in your left hand, which makes you feel like playing tennis with a 2 foot rope tied between your two hands. As a result, the swings are not natural and your balance during play is nothing like real tennis. Maybe it would be more natural for people who hit both two handed back-hands and fore-hands where your left and right hands are allways close together. Having to control your character's running motion and the direction of the ball via your left thumb on the numbchuck expounds the bizare unnatural feeling. The game requires you to hold the controler in your right hand also in a strange manner with your index finger against the trigger button, and worse than the normal way to hold the controler in other games which is more like a tennis handshake type grip. i could only take this for about 15 minutes after which I smashed my elbow into a light while trying to time the serve swing with both my arms in the air. I won't play the game again. A big waste of money.
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