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Virtua Tennis 3 coming to PSP

Female players to court your attention

Virtua Tennis 3 coming to PSP
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The opportunity to play as real-world tennis stars like Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer is the obvious draw for the PSP debut of Sega's Virtua Tennis 3, which has just been announced for release in spring 2007.

But anyone who has played older versions of Virtua Tennis on other platforms will know it's great gameplay the series is renowned for. A Bjorn Borg among sports sims, the lightest touch of the Virtua Tennis controls provide for a wide range of potentially match-winning shots, with none of the proliferating button confusion that dogs so many sports games.

Anyway, as well as playing as one of the top male or female tennis superstars (the latter a first for the franchise) you can create your own tennis player to sally forth with into the World Tour Mode. And your customisable player can be progressively improved as you win stats-boosting exhibition and tournament matches too, enabling you to develop a unique character.

Ten new tennis mini games join a further two popularised by previous versions of the game, and they also feature in a new multiplayer Court Games mode, which will enable up to three human opponents to take part multiplayer mini gaming.

We'd also expect the obvious head-to-head options, though there's no firm details from Sega on that yet. No PSP screens have been released yet either. Watch this space.