Top Spin 2 Wimbledon demo

By Tom Bramwell Published 30 June, 2006

Henman's out of this too.

Almost forgot Wimbledon was on, didn't you? Well it is, Henman's already out, and to celebrate us not having to hear the words "Henman hill" again for a year (or perhaps ever), 2K Sports has responded by lobbing a Wimbledon-themed demo of Top Spin 2 up on Xbox Live Marketplace.

The demo offers you the chance to take part in a match on Wimbledon's Centre Court, and you have four players to choose from: Sharapova, Williams, Federer and Roddick. Henman is not available which, given that this demo presumably had to undergo quite a bit of testing prior to the tennis tournament, suggests 2K Sports has powerful foresight.

Weighing in at 491MB, it's hardly slight, but it does offer a timely reminder of the game's many charms - as you can read about in our review. It may be expensive, but like Pavlov's children we'll flock to it anyway because it's on the telly.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • #1 6 years ago

    Just buy it you muppets, it's only £30 online at GAME, and it's one of the best Live experiences around!

  • dbeamish #2 6 years ago

    A)this game is rubbish - waiting for VT3
    b) Lets hope that miserable git Murry gets knocked out soon to. Can't beleive what he said about England WC team.

  • #3 6 years ago

    Don't listen to dbeamish, his opinion is clearly rubbish :)

  • DiscoMike #4 6 years ago

    I did, and on first attampt on monday, I sucked.

    Hope to get more time on it soon.

  • asphaltcowboy #5 6 years ago

    What did Murray say about the England WC team??

  • Thamuhacha #6 6 years ago

    >Lets hope that miserable git Murry gets knocked out soon to

    Agreed.

    I don't care what he said about the England team. I am just sick to death of being told I should be interested in whether or not some stroppy scottish teenager will make £100,000 in the next fortnight.
    Edited by 1 at 30/06/06 @ 14:06

  • slave23d #7 6 years ago

    he said he didnt mind if england win or lose against portugal, and it got blown out of proportion, with newspapers quoting him as saying he supports however england are playing against.
    I am scottish and dont support england at the world cup, more of a passing interest. I dont yell hooray when someone scores against them either, i just enjoy the game. Or, as in England's case of late grimace at the bad football. but hey at least they are winning, no?

    who cares, this is about games here, or am i on the wrong site...

    *edit, shit spelling*.
    Edited by 1 at 30/06/06 @ 11:19

  • HarryB #8 6 years ago

    boo hoo, a Scot said he couldn't care less about England
    is that a shock?

  • coojam #9 6 years ago

    Yeh to be fair, i think most English people are thinking like that at the moment too....there's no derogetory comments there.

    If anything's been blown out of proportion though, its him.

  • peterfll #10 6 years ago

    What is more shocking at the moment - putting aside the Scot vs English arguement - is that whenever Henman appears on-screen during the game the frame-rate drops by half as the box tries to render the 100,000,000 polygons required to display a life-like rendition of Henman's pig-awful teeth.

    Surely you've all seen them? It's like a mouthful of pegs and fangs.

    I've said it before and I'll say it again - with all his old iron you would have thought he would have got 'em done, especially as we have to look at his ugly moosh every year advertising washing powder around the Wimbledon period.

  • del_86 #11 6 years ago

    :(
    The united Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. (with Great Britain being England, Scotland & Wales)
    England, Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland are all seperate countries in their own right, who over the centuries have joined forces rather than kick the shit out of each other (I think with Scotland & England it was the act of Union around 1707, but my history is shit :) )

    So the quick answer is they are seperate entities/countries, rather than a diddy wee part of Belgium,

    In response to earlier quotes, as a Scot i am getting a bit bored of all the anti Englishness going about. While a bit of healthy banter can be fun, some of what is happening takes things too far and is a touch sinister
    However, thats not to say i am supporting the English football team, but that is more to do with the boring football you play under Mr Sweden as opposed to the attacking flair of Brazil......

  • Walshicus #12 6 years ago

    I believe there is no prerequisite that says national sides must coincide with the state they are part of. Hence Galicia, Catalonia and Basque in Spain have lobbied for their own sides in the same way as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.


    EDIT: Oh and Del, you're slightly wrong when it comes to the de jure status of England and Scotland etc. After the act of Union they ceased to exist as legal entities. Flanders actually DOES have more autonomy than any of the British regions.

    [link url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_national_footbal l_team
    ]http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_nat...[/link]
    [link url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_national_foo tball_team
    ]http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_n...[/link]
    http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Coun...
    Edited by 1 at 02/07/06 @ 14:14