Rockstar Table Tennis for Wii

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 July, 2007

Due out in the autumn.

Rockstar's Table Tennis game is heading to Nintendo Wii this autumn.

Developed by Rockstar Leeds (aye) in collaboration with Rockstar San Diego (yo), "Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis" will presumably use the Wiimote like a table tennis racket.

"Ever since we released Table Tennis, fans have been asking us to create a Wii version," Rockstar's Sam Houser said.

"By bringing Table Tennis to the Wii and utilising the motion-sensitive Wii Remote, a new audience can now experience a game that is beautifully designed and impossible to put down."

We rather liked it ourselves, having given it a big score on Xbox 360. That version included online multiplayer, too, so hopefully we'll see that again.

For more on Table Tennis, keep an eye on the official website.

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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 (46) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • laur #1 5 years ago

    This could be good-I hope they improve on the simplicity of Wii Sports Tennis.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #2 5 years ago

    This has great potential! Hopefully if this works then a fully fledged tennis game will follow soon after.

  • spliffhead #3 5 years ago

    At last a Wii/Rockstar game will let me smack balls with a paddle this year!
    Edited by 1 at 18/07/07 @ 14:26

  • LeD #4 5 years ago

    Watch out for the first screenshots! This could be fun!

  • Eighthours #5 5 years ago

    Er... I thought Rockstar said that this wasn't possible on less powerful consoles due to the immense physics! :)

    Obviously not.

  • aldo_14 #6 5 years ago

    It won't look as good as the 360 one, but it should play ace methinks.

  • Malek86 #7 5 years ago

    I'm a decent real table tennis player, so this sounds interesting. But I wonder just how much fun it can be in single-player. Actually, I wonder how many future Wii games will be fun in single-player. Sigh. Let's hope developers don't forget about us lone wolves.

    Oh well, if the physics and movements are accurate enough, it might be a good way to practice.

  • Wayne #8 5 years ago

    I always find it odd emulating a sport that's so cheap and simple to play for real.

  • Pooley #9 5 years ago

    Looking forward to this, as I liked the 360 version. I've played Wii Sports Tennis to death, so a "proper" game of table tennis sounds very good.

  • Waldo #10 5 years ago

    Wii Ports.

  • Sid-Nice #11 5 years ago

    I always find it odd emulating a sport that's so cheap and simple to play for real.

    My mates would spend a fortune on lap dancers and prostitutes when we worked in Germany; I would just go back to my digs and have a wank.

  • JetSetWilly #12 5 years ago

    Really hope this turns out well.

  • Khab #13 5 years ago

    I always find it odd emulating a sport that's so cheap and simple to play for real.

    Eh? I don't have a table tennis table, and even if I had, I'd have no room to put it anywhere where I live... Also, I'd need another person here to play against (unless I do the Forrest Gump thing). So this'd be a lot more accessible.

  • Nova5lag #14 5 years ago

    Rockstar!!! BAN THIS SICK.... oh wait. Table Tennis?? Is Table Tennis ok??

  • NOSAVIOUR #15 5 years ago

    online?

  • popabawa #16 5 years ago

    Awesome! I reckon this'll be a real SMASH! (geddit?)

  • Darren #17 5 years ago

    I loved the 360 original and the concept would work extremely well on the Wii as proven by Wii Sports tennis but...

    ... without sounding too negative, it's yet another port and, personally, I'd rather have had a proper tennis game, say, Mario Tennis or even Virtua Tennis 3 (even though the latter would obviously be a port!).

  • Santino #18 5 years ago

    i think that if done properly, the term port would only be applicable to this game in the loosest possible way, due to how differently it would play.

  • Jas315 #19 5 years ago

    "Also, I'd need another person here to play against (unless I do the Forrest Gump thing)."

    I always knew you had no friends.

    Zing!
    Edited by 1 at 18/07/07 @ 14:24

  • afghan_jones #20 5 years ago

    Allow me to be a terrible Wii skeptic and raise issues around physics, graphics, collission detec, imprecise wii controls etc etc which all dilute what made this game great in the first place.

    Also, 3 cheers for Sid Nice for lowering the tone in one swift stroke (pun intended).

  • afghan_jones #21 5 years ago

    "I always find it odd emulating a sport that's so cheap and simple to play for real."

    It starts off this way but before you know it youve stabbed someone and your mums in NOTW all because you thought it would be cheaper and simpler than playing manhunt.

    Too much?

  • tuff #22 5 years ago

    A natural choice for the Wii'mote

  • rudedudejude #23 5 years ago

    Malek86, get some friends!

    Or better yet, just adopt some tramps off the street!

  • sickpuppysoftware #24 5 years ago

    Do you get to stove your opponents face in with the bat if you lose?

  • Darren #25 5 years ago

    I presume this game will use the Nunchuk's analogue stick for movement as well or is that going to be automated a la Wii Sports Tennis? If it's automated then it would surely make the game even easier to play than it was originally and less skillful? And if it uses the Nunchuk then that would make two-player matches more expensive as you'd have to purchase another (I only have one as most multiplayer games only use the Wiimote).

  • bdgr #26 5 years ago

    I didn't like the 360 version. Probably becasue I played it after wii sports, and missed the actions!

    Hopefully this will be decent.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #27 5 years ago

    I have to say that anyone who says this is 'Just another port' is really missing the whole point surely? If there's ever a game that was a natural fit for the Wii controller and could actually be a better game because of it, this is it.

  • aldo_14 #28 5 years ago

    I presume this game will use the Nunchuk's analogue stick for movement as well or is that going to be automated a la Wii Sports Tennis?

    It could be neither, using the remote to move ala the table tennis game in Wii Play.

  • gingerlink #29 5 years ago

    I've got a table tennis myself, but none of my friends are really that good and I only play my best against good people, be interesting to see how this matches up.

    Would be nice to see all the features like online play remain on the game as well, the graphics will also be interesting to compare.

  • skink79 #30 5 years ago

    I can't wait to play this one! Hope there will be online mode too!

  • Zomoniac #31 5 years ago

    It's not a racket, it's a bat.

  • evilcoffee #32 5 years ago

    I'm amazed there hasn't yet been a post like this:

    B..b..but Rockstar Table Tennis uses the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE)... just like GTA IV...

    OMG!!!! GTA IV on the Wii!!!!

    ;-)

  • CallousB #33 5 years ago

    Nice...

    ....although considering "Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games" is also confirmed to have Table Tennis as one of its many sports (as well as being online)...this will have to be markedly superior to warrant a purchase.
    Edited by 1 at 18/07/07 @ 15:18

  • Caimbeul #34 5 years ago

    immense physics of one little ball? come on...

    needs to be precise, wii-sports tennis was rubbish and rather random in control.
    Edited by 1 at 18/07/07 @ 15:22

  • Dr.Gash #35 5 years ago

    "If there's ever a game that was a natural fit for the Wii controller and could actually be a better game because of it, this is it."

    Agreed.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #36 5 years ago

    needs to be precise, wii-sports tennis was rubbish and rather random in control.

    You were just shit at it. Once you master it you can put a ball anywhere on the court.

  • Malek86 #37 5 years ago

    @Adam_T: hey, not my fault if no one I know is interested in videogames. I tried to convince them that Wii Tennis is good, but to no avail. Bet Nintendo didn't think of THAT :p
    Edited by 1 at 18/07/07 @ 16:27

  • smelly #38 5 years ago

    "Allow me to be a terrible Wii skeptic and raise issues around physics, graphics, collission detec, imprecise wii controls etc etc which all dilute what made this game great in the first place. "


    Oh do get over yourself. How powerful do you think the 360 cpu actually is? How complicated do you think sphererical physics is anyhow?

    Actually why am i even bothering replying to a troll bot.. go feck off.

  • Paukl #39 5 years ago

    "If there's ever a game that was a natural fit for the Wii controller and could actually be a better game because of it, this is it."

    Agreed."

    I see your Table Tennis, and raise you Brian Lara Cricket ;)

    Edited by 1 at 18/07/07 @ 17:51

  • secombe #40 5 years ago

    Arrrrrggggh at all the "simple"/"basic" Wii Sports Tennis comments!

    Did any of these people actually play it? I'm still finding new shots now, the amount of control is incredible when you really get into it.

  • afghan_jones #41 5 years ago

    "Actually why am i even bothering replying to a troll bot.."


    Because deep down, console wars get you hard.




    Its nothing to be ashamed of. I've got a bonk-on right now thinking about 360 elite vs PS3 bundle pricing....

  • smelly #42 5 years ago

    *Sigh*.

    prick

    ignored

  • immateriaux #43 5 years ago

    Agree with secombe - lots to get into with Wii Sports Tennis, a bit of practice and a whole range of shots open up - certainly is not a random thing. Very good little game overall, I just wish they had extended the number of games per set for a bit more of a gruelling challenge.

  • Ryze #44 5 years ago

    BLOODY MASSIVE POTENTIAL!!!!!


    I WANT THIS GAME.

  • Ryze #45 5 years ago

    ...BUT MAKE SURE IT'S ONLINE, ROCKSTAR!

    Potentially a perfect fit for the Wii.

    Hopefully with different control configs so anyone without a 2nd nunchuk can play, but those with them can restrict online games to people with the same config if they so wish.

    Make it happen, Rockstar.

    Someone tell Codemasters to get started on Brian Lara Cricket, and include support for ALL controllers: Gamecube, classic, Wii'mote / nunchuk.

  • figaro7 #46 5 years ago

    This could very well be the first time i buy the same game twice! Should feel right at home on the wii, being that the wiimote is roughly the same length as a table tennis bat.