It's been quite a while since I've spent an entire afternoon at the local arcade, but I do remember that Virtua Tennis was one of the more popular games at the time. Sure, I could empty out a roll of quarters with Street Fighter or Daytona USA, but Virtua Tennis offered the best tennis experience.

Great Virtua Tennis gameplay is back; Variety of mini-games to test your skills; Satisfying World Tour (career) mode; Support for Xbox Live online play

Forced/unforced errors are virtually non-existent; Very weak create-a-player tool; Disappointing graphics compared to other sports games (EA; Computer assistance can be frustrating

for the first time nine years ago, and I ended up falling in love with it. I would play it in various arcade rooms, spending all the change I had to serve or keep getting served. My addiction only grew when the first console version was released on the Dreamcast. Now, almost a decade later, does

Easy to pick up gameplay; Good looking courts; Very arcade type of experience

Gameplay isn't deep enough; Lack of commentators; Game is too easy

It's a shame that Sega didn't capture the frenetic energy of the minigames in the rest of the game. There is a distinct lack of energy in Virtua Tennis 2009 that makes the experience feel dull and lifeless.

Swing mechanics are easy to learn; Fun minigames

World Tour mode is way too easy; Gameplay lacks depth; Online play is mired in lag

These achievements are good, but I cant help thinking they will get completed much sooner than was intended. Overview: Gameplay = 9/10 Sound = 4/10 Graphics = 7/10 Achievements = 9/10 Lifespan = 5/10 Overall = 72% Im giving this game 4 stars, just about.

Ushered to the world as an arcade game straight from the nooks and crannies of cinemas and many other arcade centers, Virtua Tennis was probably the first tennis game that worked as a whole. In its current form, Virtua Tennis 2009 (VT2009) is the finest tennis arcade console game money can buy.

The very first Virtua Tennis on the Sega Dreamcast was a wonderfully fun title that provided my friends and I with an insane amount of hours of enjoyment. Over the years, sequels to the original have kept to the tried and true template that started in 1999.

This is still a solid tennis game but it is also one that offers almost no improvement over its predecessor. The controls are still easy and this is the perfect ‘pick up and play' sports title.

There's always been something delightfully cheesy and overblown about Virtua Tennis. The shiny bodies and hollow-eyed faces on its athletes never make it seem like they're straining for victory. "Relax," the athletes seem to tell you. "It's videogame tennis.

Virtua Tennis 2009 will again allow you to take on the world's top tennis players in some of the most realistic courts to be found on gaming consoles. Take on the likes of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer or play as Maria Sharapova against Venus Williams to recreate some classic court battles.

I love me some Virtua Tennis and that's no secret. It was probably my favourite arcade-to-console port back in the days of the Dreamcast, and every time I've seen an arcade cabinet with it running in the last twelve years, I've just had to have a go – despite completing most of the home versions.