Virtua Tennis 2

Virtua Tennis 2

Developer(s)	Hitmaker
Publisher(s)	Sega
Release date(s)	November 23, 2001 (DC) July 30, 2002 (PS2)
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: E (Everyone)
Platform(s)	Arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2
Media	GD-ROM, DVD
Input	gamepad

Virtua Tennis 2 (known as Tennis 2K2 in the US and Power Smash 2 in Japan) is a sequel to Virtua Tennis that was released for the Sega Dreamcast, Sega NAOMI arcade unit and Sony's PlayStation 2 (known as Sega Sports Tennis) in 2001. New features included the ability to play as female players (such as Monica Seles, Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Lindsay Davenport) and mixed doubles matches. The game was created and produced by Sega's Hitmaker division, with Acclaim Entertainment publishing it in Europe.

[edit] Trivia

Virtua Tennis 2 was one of the last great games released on the Dreamcast(November 2001)in Europe - the game was in shops on the same weekend as Shenmue 2 (another massive Dreamcast title), but within a few months all software had dried up and production of the console was stopped.
The game features a hugely expanded version of the World Tour mode found in the original Virtua Tennis and allows the player to unlock many different courts, rackets, and items of clothing.
The Playstation 2 version (released in 2002) was noticably visually worse than the Dreamcast version and featured the well known system issue of "jaggies" and some of the general graphic "sheen" was missing.
"King" and "Queen" are the bonus "boss" characters of the game and are faced as the final doubles team in the world tour mode. They are also unlockable to play in tournament mode by winning every match without losing a single game and then, by beating King (or Queen - depending on the sex of your player) in the final.