Racket records

Although I haven't played it, Virtua Tennis 2 disappointed me. Despite the fact that the successor to 1999's Virtua Tennis (or Power Smash in Japan and Tennis 2K2 in North America) offers a slice ability - i.e. a shot with a backward spin - and now also sportswomen, there is no mode with two balls! But that's exactly what the two in the title promises, or is it just me?

The score

Joking aside, the tennis simulation from 2001 is probably a continuation of old virtues in the best sense of the word, which unfortunately cannot be transferred to the soundtrack. This can only be accessed as a gamerip of the Dreamcast version and was once again composed by Japanese composer Chiho Kobayashi. This time, however, it is less in the rock direction as in the predecessor, but rather classic 2000s sports game techno music.

Other entries in the Virtua Tennis -series

Soundtrack

Virtua Tennis (2000)

Soundtrack

Virtua Tennis 2 (2001)

There are still a few guitar-heavy approaches (Virtua Tennis 2 04Chiho Kobayashi3, Virtua Tennis 2 15Chiho Kobayashi3), but the electro (Virtua Tennis 2 03Chiho Kobayashi2, Virtua Tennis 2 08Chiho Kobayashi3, Virtua Tennis 2 09Chiho Kobayashi2) and techno tracks (Virtua Tennis 2 06Chiho Kobayashi2, Virtua Tennis 2 07Chiho Kobayashi3, Virtua Tennis 2 11Chiho Kobayashi3) are too much in the vein of Need for Speed, for me. There, the late-90s style works for me thanks to the nostalgia glasses, but in Virtua Tennis 2 it is a little too generic and lacking in excitement. That's why the score (of the Dreamcast version) is a little weaker for me compared to the first Virtua Tennis s and doesn't come close to the work of Rom Di Prisco for Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit , for example.