It seems like I will continue to have a love-hate relatioinship with Virtua Tennis.
I LOVE Virtua Tennis because of the way it plays. It's a 3 button game, that has wonderful, wonderful gameplay. It has lots of depth: you WILL notice a difference in how your character plays on clay, as opposed to grass. That lob should've gone over your opponent's head, but he's a little faster than you think on grass, so he's about to get to in, and spike it into the far wall. Every single friend of mine who gave it a chance (c'mon man! Its three ****in buttons, dawg. Try it!!), have liked the game, to the point that one of them ended up buying a dreamcast just for that one game. And Doubles?! Hell, even my ex liked it then.
I HATE Virtua Tennis because, well.... it's ugly. Real ugly. I don't understand how after all this time the folks over at that particular development department at Sega don't know how to make a decent character model that looks like their real-life counterpart. The croud? Yikes. I know that we're not at the point where we can render ten thousand people in the stands, but geez, give me something a bit more than a super low-resolution bitmap guys...
Oh, and Sega? 2 things: This is the home version of your arcade game. Give us a full 3 set game. I appreciate all the mini games that you give for single-player longevity, but since you don't make any of those same mini games 2 player, give me a full match game.
Secondly. This needs to be online in a fierce way. I'm talking about doubles play, online. You make this happen, and I will purchase the game and the game system that it's released on.