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Top Spin 3 | 
 enlarge | From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $5.99
You Save: $14.00 (70%)
New (34) Used (14) from $3.77
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 4392
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: sports_and_outdoors_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
MPN: 35373
Model: 35373TT
UPC: 710425353734
EAN: 0710425353734
ASIN: B0013FYXCW
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Play against or as more than 20 top ranked players including Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker and Monica Seles | | • | Play on more than 40 prestigious and visually stunning venues from around the world such as Roland Garros in Paris (French Open) and Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne (Australian Open) | | • | Easy to Pick Up & Play - intuitive controls give you the ability to set your own pace and learn to master the courts, no matter what skill level you are | | • | Play in 4 different online game modes ranging from quick match to comprehensive World Tours with up to 2 separately connected consoles | | • | Use a new and innovative Player Creator to customize your own unique tennis stars with free-form body sculpting, makeup and tattoos |
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Product Description
Compete against the pros with Top Spin 3. Play online or offline to rise in the ranks against current top ranked professional players. This is a visually and physically realistic tennis experience. Using next generation technology, gameplay and graphics, Top Spin 3 features dynamic weather changes, evolutionary player visuals and comprehensive online offerings. With a unique user-generated component, you can also use new player creator features that include free-form body sculpting, makeup and tattoos.
Create matches online and test your skills against friends or other ranked players around the world
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not a good tennis game January 17, 2009
Billy Here (HONOLULU, HI United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having to make the player move to the ball is stupid. When you play tennis, you naturally move to the ball to hit it. This game requires one button for you to get to the ball and another to hit it when you're in the right spot. It's not intuitive like real tennis. The player should go to the ball automtically and the game should revolve around hitting the ball using various spins, depth etc. As it is, just getting the player to the ball is half 3/4 of the battle. NOT GOOD.
 Difficult game to play, let alone master November 23, 2008
Nathan Harris (Chattanooga, TN USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game, Top Spin 3, was a great frustration because it is so difficult to get all the buttons pushed just so in order to actually play the game well, which I never did, and I spent hours trying. I felt like a total spaz playing this particular game, whereas in other games for the DS I am not a bad player, like Tiger Woods PGA tour 08 and Call of Duty 4. Top Spin 3 is not, as the product features state, "easy to pick up and play... no matter what skill level you are". I have had the game about 5 months and have not gotten any enjoyment out of the game, except when knocking down most of the "barrels" in one of the training exercises, and that was very little enjoyment indeed. Playing a match against the computer is a totally different story than knocking down some barrels. It is very difficult to actually get your player into the exact spot on the court in order to make consistently good forehands and backhands. I could never even break the CPU's serve. Also, I never liked the way the CPU player would come towards the net and taunt my guy after a winning shot was made. That got old really quick. Where's the good sportsmanship? I would not recommend Top Spin 3 to someone that might be overly challenged (like me) to keep pushing the control pad (and the other buttons) in just the exact way required to make good shots. If you might be expecting to somewhat master the controls for this game, you could be sorely disappointed, as I was.
 Pretty good August 3, 2008
Eric P. Bujon (France)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The graphic is not so good. It's too bad you can't get all the stars in training. The sound is pretty good and it's a fun game even though it might be hard to catch on to. The good thing is that you can continue to play even when you become number one...
A Wasted Opportunity July 19, 2008
TC in DC (Washington DC)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have not played this game on other consoles, nor have I played any previous incarnations of Top Spin--so apologies if this is "standard knowledge" for this publisher: but I found this a very disappointing port of this game, as it makes no use of the stylus during gameplay. Having been spoiled by Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, I'd have thought there would be opportunities galore to have the player power-up his serve, aim his racket, or at least run by using the touch-screen. No. Everything is done with the d-pad, L&R buttons, etc, making this a button-mashing game of epic frustrations. We gain none of the benefits of the DS (save its portability); very disappointing.
If you're still interested, wait a few months, when you'll invariably be able to buy used copies for $8.99, which I think is a better price for the quality of play on this platform.
 Fun! July 3, 2008
Julie W (FL)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I did not purchase either of the other Top Spin games so I have nothing to compare this one to but I really like this game! You try to get yourself to rank #1 in the world of tennis and you start out ranked 100. You have practice mini games and tournaments to help increase your rank. It takes a while to get good at this game and at the beginning I was not sure if buying it was a good decision or not. But once you get the hang of it, the game is challenging and fun!
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