TopSpin 2K25 Reviews

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If all you want to do is hop into matches, this is a good tennis game. For variety and depth, it's meh. Would recommend a purchase only if it's on sale.

Horrible experience. I was always an admirer of this game and wanted to play the game. But with constant issues trying to link my steam account to 2K, I felt very frustrated and annoyed as despite of entering the correct login details, it kept on popping up with the username and password mismatch. I did change the password for my 2K account, but it kept on coming back with the error. Such a shame that I couldnt play the game because of this

If it was possible I would give this a mixed review. Like it's pre 2K predecessor, it has so much potential, but it only partially delivers on it. Pros - The players, player maker, outfits, venues are done very well. The game itself plays very well, like many 2K products it is solid. The progression methods that I've seen so far are good. It's a fun game to play, and just like real tennis, sometimes it's appropriately frustrating. Career mode has lots of venues and is very similar to previous TopSpin products. Difficulty modes are appropriate and you switch between them at any time to adapt play. Cons - Player progression in Career Mode is...odd. For example, after a season and a half (on hard mode) the least AI level that my player will face at Lvl 7 is roughly level 17 in the bronze qualies and 21 in the silver qualies. It's like they missed an entire bracket of competition for the beginning Career Player. This problem can be adjusted through the difficulty mode (for example, if I play an exhibition tournament with players on lvl 30, I'm competitive), but do I really want to do that, then ratchet up the difficulty later? So if I don't want to change the difficulty setting (which is appropriate), I'm looking at probably 4 seasons before I'm capable of being competitive in a qualifier and "really" start my player progression. The shot bar is excessively difficult to anticipate, for example, I would expect it to be difficult to time a hard shot that puts me in a defensive position, but I would expect that a poor shot coming from my opponent (especially short) would be an easier put away winner. Mostly this isn't the case, and it seems inconsistent. Graphically, (and this may be due to my equipment set up) sometimes the ball is difficult to see against a background that is similar to the color of the ball. The game adjusts for this by showing the point at which the ball will land, but against some backgrounds a hard shot simply disappears. The whole season pass thing is both expensive and confusing. I'm not a fan. I might feel differently if the game was more "complete" in career mode. All in all: I have a mixed opinion, but there is no other tennis sim out there that matches up. The game has so much promise, but it's like they made only 75% of it. I will say that I hope they continue to develop TopSpin, adding players and an extra amateur division.

I really want to enjoy this game, but it's really hard. I love the way the ball moves in this game, but the timing and difficulty isn't fun, it's just frustrating. I'll play it here and there to see if it gets better, but at this time, I cannot recommend.

What's the point of playing any sort attacking tennis if the other guy is just gonna stand as far back as possible and retrieve everything? It's clear the creators have never played a sport let alone played tennis before

Used to play the old top spin games way back when... this game runs well and its great fun, especially if you're a tennis fan and enjoy sport career mode type games. I bought it on sale so I'd say worth it if its on there.

I highly recommend this game. For anyone concerned about its gameplay, please ignore them. The gameplay is super straightforward and, yes, it requires some practice but it's also what makes the game interesting. Less complex mechanics would make this game super repetitive and boring, which is not the case. IMO, it's a better arcade version from decades ago. The game is really fun and has great potential to continue to improve in the upcoming years. One downside is the lack of professional players. Even though there are a bunch of well known tournaments (the circuit in general looks quite interesting), there are just a handful of professional players which definitely impacts negatively the game immersion.

There may be a fun game in there somewhere but the shot timing feels so arbitrary and random even a few hours in. If you do anything but a precision flat shot you're likely to hit the ball out of bounds if you don't hit the timing perfect, but your opponent will almost always return that precision flat shot even if you do manage to get the timing perfect, so you spend a lot of time just doing basic shots until you decide to mix it up just to hit the ball out of bounds. If you want to do the MyCareer mode, your new level 1 character immediately faces level 15 opponents who feel impossible to beat unless you can force 3-4 errors on their side in a row by getting several perfect power shots, something that feels impossible with the base reflex and power stats. This game may eventually get fun once you practice for a few days but every aspect of the game starts out so frustrating that it's hard to care long enough to get there.

This is by far the best and realistic tennis game I have come across. I put over 1,000+ Hours into AO Tennis 2 just before switching to TopSpin 2k25 and I am completely hooked on this game and have pretty much abandoned AO Tennis 2 at this point. If you are reading some the negative reviews in terms of difficulty, I honestly just think they are all just bad at the game. I play Tennis IRL and if you use some of the fundamentals into this game as if it were real tennis, you'd have a good time on this game. The game was not set up for you to 'lose on purpose.' Practice makes perfect so just get better over time. My only complaint is that the game lacks a lot of customization. I think it is a crime to not be able to edit colors on certain clothing like ball caps and headbands just like in AO Tennis 2. Overall I'd recommend!