Top Spin 3 for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

For anyone who has played a tennis game before: throw away everything you learned from previous titles. The developers of Top Spin 3, in an effort to create more realism, created an entirely new method to control your player's swings.

It takes a while to get the hang of the controls, but luckily the game provides quite a few tutorials and lessons to help you get caught up.

Unfortunately however, all of this innovation in the controls ultimately results in not much more than a 'pretty good' game. Once you get the hang of the new control scheme, it turns out there isn't much more to it than hitting the ball back and forth. The career mode is designed in such a way that it takes FOREVER to increase your player's attributes to something half-decent. In addition, the AI opponents seem to never make any mistakes, even at the early stages of the career.

The game offers easy, medium, and harder settings, but easy provided more than enough challenge for me. I shudder to think how this game plays on the hard setting.

So, if the career mode seems like a thousand-mile crawl, there's always the ability to play exhibition matches using Federer or Nadal to get a taste of what you can really do with this game. But that gets old fairly quickly.

Overall, the game is worth a rent if you are a tennis fan or even just a fan of sports video games in general. But it's not a killer top-of-the-queue title.