Remember when Tennis World Tour launched last year on the PlayStation 4 in a state worse than Andy Murray’s hip? Well, it seems that developer Breakpoint Games has more nerve than Nick Kyrgios when he’s insulting opponents’ girlfriends, as it’s repackaging the entire game for Roland-Garros. Due out in May, this is technically the 2018 title with new content added on top – and you’ll have to pod out extra for the fresh stuff if you’re unfortunate enough to already own a copy.
To be fair, the studio has been busy updating the release over the past 12 months, and it now includes many of the features that it originally promised for launch – including the all-important online mode. This new version will bundle in improved clay court animations, as well as the French Open’s main three arenas. As a bonus, you’ll also be able to play on the Madrid Open’s central court, La Caja Magica.
There’ll be new additions to the roster as well, with one new male player and two female players added to the lineup, but there’s no word on who those will be just yet. And if you do grab the Roland-Garros Edition, you’ll get the content of last year's Legends Edition out of the box, meaning you’ll be able to play as André Agassi and John McEnroe.
We wouldn’t be so mad about this if the core game had released in the state that it was supposed to and the new content was being offered to existing fans for free, but charging for this stuff given Tennis World Tour’s history is a real kick in the shins. We absolutely adore tennis games here at Push Square and we want to support this one to prove that there’s a future for the sport on the PS4, but Breakpoint Games makes it incredibly difficult.
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Oof, a biting comment about Murray’s hip. Hahaha, that stings, he’s the one good athlete from up here! We just lost 3-0 against bloody Kazakhstan, Murray’s our only hope!
@nessisonett You obviously missed your captain today.
Oooh Andy Andy
Andy Andy Andy Andy Rob-ert-son.
@ApostateMage It’s typical, our two best players are both left backs and neither of them were even there!
I'm enjoying how angry Sammy is about this.
@nessisonett massively off-topic but how's Suikoden going?
New Virtua Tennis? I'd buy that!
@Gremio108 It's really interesting tbh, other than the slight lack of knowing where to go at times, building up my castle with new people is pretty fun. I especially like when you recruit somebody who brings something new to the castle like the elevator guy. The battles are simple but there's quite a lot of depth with there being so many characters so I'm slowly getting there! Looking forward to Suikoden 2 afterwards as I've heard that one's brilliant.
@nessisonett Yeah the first one holds a special place in my heart and all that, but the second one is something else. It fixes all the odd design choices of the first game as well, such as the quirky menu system, and the ambiguity over where to go next that you mentioned.
I love Sergei. He can even fight! (although he's pretty rubbish)
Scumbag tactics - these guys are rude. Disgrace to gaming industry with the comments made after release and clearly they haven’t learnt.
.. I mean you only need to look at the developers' Facebook page to see how unhappy purchasers are with the game (and yet I'm strangely drawn to it every time it's on sale for £15 on PSN Store..) but to charge existing customers for this extra content is simply disgusting... especially considering the state of the game on release and the continuing issues players are having... I wouldn't be surprised if they change this policy (or maybe because they've already had such a backlash, they don't care...) :/ for me? nope, I wouldn't touch it with yours after this...
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