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SEGA gets stars playing tennis News

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News by Robert Purchese

18 October, 2007

SEGA has whisked the cover off its new Superstars Tennis game for PS3, 360, PS2, Wii and DS.

Like Mario Tennis, it compiles all the familiar characters together in one sports package, where each will play differently and have their own special moves.

So you have the likes of Sonic, Monkey Ball ape AiAi, Space Channel 5 star Ulala and Amigo from Samba De Amigo all whacking balls at each other.

Every version will have exhibition and tournament modes - played at themed venues corresponding to each character - as well as platform-specific events. The PS3 and 360 will support online, for example.

SEGA Superstars Tennis is due out on all platforms in early 2008.

Pop over to our SEGA Superstars Tennis gallery to see how nice and colourful it looks.

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X201
18/10/07 @ 15:46
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Rob,
Link borked
Fernando
18/10/07 @ 15:49
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Sonic and his shitty freinds
Bertie [staff]
18/10/07 @ 15:56
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Whoops! Link should now work.
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Nobuo
18/10/07 @ 16:05
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Arcadiian
18/10/07 @ 16:10
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/buy.
smelly
18/10/07 @ 16:12
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Hope it plays like virtua tennis.. but with sonic.
BillyBrush
18/10/07 @ 16:15
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Well the 1P & Com symbola are ripped straight outta Virtua Tennis, so i wouldn't be surprised if it plays very much like VT, maybe Sonic team will come in and arse it up a bit though..
cauldie
18/10/07 @ 16:23
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>Hope it plays like virtua tennis.. but with sonic.

it's being made by Sumo Digital.
Kazzahdrane
18/10/07 @ 16:25
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Problem is unlike Mario Tennis etc the SEGA "mascots" are not very well known( (with the exception of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Robotnik). How many casual gamers have heard of Space Channel 5 let alone played it? And the monkey from Monkey Ball doesn't exactly have a memorable personality.

Smash Bros Brawl is showing how to do cross-developer character inclusion.
Leatherface
18/10/07 @ 16:29
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>Sonic > Mario.

+1
Arcadiian
18/10/07 @ 16:31
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@ Kazzahdrane.

Outside of Mario, Luigi, Zelda and Metroid, I don't know any of the Nintendo characters. Yet I know all of the SEGA characters. That doesn't mean either are well known or not, it just means you yourself don't know them.

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@ Cauldie.

Are you saying that in a bad way, or good way ?
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dudefella
18/10/07 @ 16:35
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oh sega... what happened to you :(
samadriel
18/10/07 @ 16:48
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Bring back Alex Kidd!
stampax
18/10/07 @ 17:34
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A full tennis game for the wii! at last!
smelly
18/10/07 @ 17:55
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@Kazzahdrane: For all we know this might even have mario in it..
Sid Nice
18/10/07 @ 17:58
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The Ulala picture looks like someone has just pasted a racket in her hand.
Kon
18/10/07 @ 18:44
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Sumo Digital + Virtua Tennis + Dreamcast icons = Buy

Please don't fuck this up Sega.

BTW, if you're a Sega fan of old (and have some 15 minutes to burn) you owe it to yourself to check this out.
ghearoid
18/10/07 @ 18:58
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i love tennis game so since there's no sign of virtua tennis for Wii yet, this'll be a good second best. and a samba de amigo court!!

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Arcadiian
18/10/07 @ 19:15
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Ace video Kon. ^_^

SEGA just aren't as creative as they used to be.
haveasafeday
18/10/07 @ 19:47
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Mario > Sonic

but this does look nice! I'll be keeping an eye on it
Talha
18/10/07 @ 20:58
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I hope this proves to tennis games what Revo is to rally games, but a little deeper.
Aretak
18/10/07 @ 21:10
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This should be freakin' awesome. It'll undoubtably be using the Virtua Tennis 3 engine, which is ace.
SuperMario
18/10/07 @ 21:28
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360/ PS3 online. typical nintendo
Skurmedel
18/10/07 @ 22:17
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Most people know the Sonic characters and some know Monkey Ball, but Ulala?
Bumhug360
18/10/07 @ 22:26
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"For all we know this might even have mario in it.. "

On the PS3 and 360??

No doubt will have Master Chief and that bird from Heavenly Sword in it as well
Monkey-Wizard-Ken
18/10/07 @ 22:45
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It seems SEGA is back on form.
We just need a good sonic game, but I won’t hold my breath
Lov3
19/10/07 @ 00:54
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@Kon: Thankyou dude, thankyou. I have no idea why I just sat here and watched 15 minutes of sega intros, but damn, I suddenly miss them a hell of a lot :(.
Skywise
19/10/07 @ 01:00
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Not online on Wii = no sale. First Rockstar with Tabletennis and now this...
Don't the Wii developers realize that party games benefit the most from being online?

Apart from that it could be great, but all Wii owners already have a good tennis game so a bit more effort would be appreciated.
viper_h
19/10/07 @ 08:41
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It's probably because Wii's online is shit and no-one wants to spend half their development cycle coding for it.
tachikoma
19/10/07 @ 09:14
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Real life has Maria Sharapova.

Sega's Tennis game has Ulala.

Wait a sec...
imperial_seal
20/10/07 @ 10:42
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The question is Ryo and Lan Di in it ?

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