Virtual Sports Reviews

i realey liked the game it was my favrate but now i am having truble playing because the paddle is not oreanted corectly for game play i hihly recomend tis game if it works, but so far after i did a update i cant get the game to work corectly

I am only reviewing the tennis part of this game as I don’t play ping pong. If you’d asked me what game I would play the most in VR a year ago tennis would not have even entered my head, but I play this more than any other game on the PC now, let alone VR. I nearly didn’t try ‘Virtual Sports’ as I’d bought ‘First Person Tennis’ prior to this and the physics were so awful I didn’t think VR would ever get it right, but as steam takes games back if you don’t like them (played under two hours and had less than two weeks) it seemed stupid not to try it. The AI are playable but I play tennis and they don’t provide much of a challenge but the multiplayer tennis is what this game does incredibly well. Positive Same fun as going to the courts but without the Cue So much more realistic than playing the AI Keep fit - I play this with my European friends every day now as part of my fitness routine. Not as energetic as running but I do this three times longer because it’s fun. Physics - Incredibly close to the real thing Negative Can only play other people in Europe, tried further but network can’t cope Only one of the courts can be used for multiply. This is a video link of me playing one of my European friends and gives you an example of some serves, movement and speed in game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-8hLp1iI8 but this is not the same as being there in VR, so If you’d like some people to try the multiplayer with (that are in Europe) I have a Discord channel called ‘Buzz Buddys’ https://discord.gg/fSFUYcp just leave your request for a partner in the multiplayer-requests channel, or just friend me on steam.

Decided to refund because online play doesn't work at all and kept giving me "Unable to connect" and "Network failure", even though there is nothing wrong with my connection. Game also seems to be dead and abandoned by the devs. It's a shame since i really liked the tennis here.

Props to the makers. I picked it up on sale today. Had it in my wish list for a while as I've heard good things but couldn't really see how tennis or ping pong would be all that great. I was wrong, the physics are really quite incredible. I can tell there is obviously some assist in action to make things a little less realistic and frustraiting and 10X more fun. Great job. I can't decide wich I like better. Probably ping pong since I grew up playing it and it hits close to home.

I don't know if it was a good idea to release this game as 'Virtual Sports' instead of 'Virtual Tennis'. It is the tennis part what makes this game outstanding. The ping pong part is also nice but too easy to be fully realistic and there is also competition with high quality. The tennis instead feels real - holding the racket, serving, hitting the ball, playing volleys at the net. After starting the game you find yourself on a training court, where you can try all the different techniques you need to beat the AI. There are six AI characters with different playing styles and three levels of difficulty. This variety will further improve your gameplay. All the characters on the different levels have to be unlocked by winning, and when you have beaten all of them you are prepared to do the real thing - playing virtual tennis online against human opponents. This is a lot of fun and can become a routine just as playing real tennis. I can only encourage all buyers of this game not to stop with playing against AI opponents, but to go online and meet other tennis fans. Please watch this gameplay video to get an impression what it feels like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-8hLp1iI8 The game is not perfect. The problem of movement has been solved by teleportation. There is a passive teleportation that ensures that you are always able to reach the ball. Thus, you don't see your opponent moving on the court but just appear on spot. Sometimes you may think that he would never have been able to reach your ball in real tennis. This somehow interferes with positional play. However, as a compensation for the downside of teleportation it gets more difficult to return the ball if you are starting from an unfavorable position. The active teleportation is used for net attacks. Doing net attacks against human opponents gets much more difficult in contrast to playing against AI. There are some other minor glitches or questionable design choices but these do not diminish the value of this great game. For tennis fans this game is a must have and worth every penny.

The Good: 1. This was the first experience I had with the HTC Vive and it is a fun experience. I like that I can jump in and play for a few minutes without much thought or care. I can simply play the game. I can do things in ping pong and tennis that I couldn't normally do but that's ok and it makes it fun. This is one of the first games I load when I put the VR headset on just to warm up and get used to the VR environment. 2. I like the characters you've created. It would be great to see growth in their personality similar to their playstyle. Well done there. I find myself talking smack to them as if they can hear me. The Bad: 1. When you force "fun mode" off - you aren't kidding. It's not fun. That's usually when I stop playing. My typical experience is to play the set of masters and beat Zhang and then move onto another game. Like I said, a warm up to other experiences. It's cool for those that want a "non fun" experience, but please don't force me to not have fun. You may want to change that naming convention too. -.- 2. Also, I'm not a fan of the design of the basic environments. They look really simple for an overall fun game. The temple isn't bad but I only see that for a little while before going back to the cheesy Vegas scene. Overall: I enjoy it but only for a little while. Then I need to move on to more polished experiences.

The tennis is a genuine blast. They solved the movement problem very well. I have played so much the last two days my shoulder is sore!

A nice surprise -- very polished and fun. I've played a lot of Eleven ping pong but I enjoy the single player ping pong in Virtual sports more. I actually feel like I'm playing against different opponents in Virtual Sports where in Eleven I feel like I'm playing against invincible robots that sometimes let me win a point here or there. I'll leave it to others to discuss how realistic the physics are, but for me the physics are close enough to feel like I'm playing ping pong (don't play a lot in real life). Tennis is fun as well -- obviously teleporting tennis is never going to be perfect, but I've played a couple of hours of it already which is more time than I spend in most vive games I purchase. I highly recommend this game to anyone that enjoys racket sports.

I bought this game mainly because of the tennis part and it feels really good. I'm neither a real tennis nor ping pong player, but both disciplines are great fun and you can choose between "Fun" mode (simplified physics) and "Real" mode ('real' physics). There are different options for audio, playarea, paddle position and so on and the UI is intuitive and easy to use. The ping pong part is nice, whereas Eleven: Table Tennis VR still feels like the best ping pong simulator to me in terms of physics. However there is a career mode, beside partice and online mode, in Virtual Sports, for both tennis and ping pong, which is demanding, AI gets stronger and plays different, and rewarding because you also unlock additional opponents and environments. Tennis works flawless, you will be teleported to a sport where you can reach the ball after your opponent returned it. It only needs ~two matches to get used to. You can also teleport yourself to play close to the net, which is very difficult imho. Graphics are fine, some levels could be a little bit more detailed, antialiasing especially on the ping pong table and both rackets are great though, performance is top. Sound design is appropriate, haptic feedback is good. More content and improvments here and there would be nice, a two vs two mode would be awesome, but overall I can recommend this game in its current state!

+: Tennis - Wow! Amazing! \O/ -: Ping Pong - [strike]This ping pong needs option that allow to turn racket 90 degree relative to controller by its axis. (like racket position in "Eleven"). [/strike] If you want play most realistic ping pong - "Eleven" is better.