Tennis Elbow 4, the long-awaited sequel to Tennis Elbow 2013, will be released in Early Access on Steam on June 4th.
It has been already available from managames.com for almost 2 years now, and the game is already more complete than TE2013, except its Modding support is still limited. TE4 current main improvements are : - Improved visuals, including new players, 9 stadiums and 9 more coming - Reworked physics so everything is more realistic ; as the main example : now if you hit a ball when mispositioned and/or too late, it'll always have a chance to end in the net or go wild - Redesigned menus - Dynamic animation so the players always put their racket on the ball (it still needs tuning to look ok in all situations) - Men Tour starts in 1973 & Women Tour in 1983 - Junior Tour - Future fictional years are generated in real-time, so each playthrough sees different top players in the future - Olympiads The future main area of improvements will be the animations, but it'll have also new content : mainly new stadiums & a single tournament mode. I hope you'll enjoy all this and if you have any feedback, you're welcome here : https://steamcommunity.com/app/760640/discussions/ ; and there : https://www.managames.com/Forum/ . ManuTOO === Mana Games ===

[ 2021-05-29 07:45:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Created by and for tennis fans, Tennis Elbow 2013 is a tennis simulation with an easy and intuitive learning curve, but with exceptional gameplay depth.

In this tennis game, you'll have to show all your tactical skills, use an iron mind and quick reflexes, as well as a sharp eye to guess the ball trajectories, all of this to choose your next strike wisely.

To beat your opponent, you have the choice between all the possible strikes on a real court, from the safe strike to the acceleration, including the drop shot and the topspin lob.

This tennis simulation is designed for all tennis lovers, whether gamepad mashers or keyboard novices, because of its numerous difficulty levels. In addition, a visual help system will assist you in aiming the ball and positioning your player. You can turn these options on and off whenever it suits you.

TE2013 features one of the most complete World Tour ever made in a tennis video game. With 3000 players evolving other 36 years, competing in 300 tournaments each year, from the low rank tournament qualifications to the top level event finals, both in singles and doubles competition, you’ll feel like diving in a real professional tennis player’s career.

Tennis Elbow game engine is very open to modifications and TE2013 has an active Modding community.

Features:

• 9 different court surfaces : clay, green clay, grass, hard, blue-green hard, classic synthetic, NewLine synthetic, indoor hard and indoor synthetic; each with a specific rebound
  
• 300 tournaments, with 3500 players evolving over 38 years
  
• The World Team Cup
  
• Singles & doubles competitions
  
• 6 difficulty levels, each split in 10 sublevels
  
• Full ranking system
  
• 3D male & female players fully customizable
  
• Singles, 3, and doubles games
  
• Split screen
  
• Network : LAN and online games (only available on the Windows version, not on the Mac OSX & Linux versions)
  
• 1 to 6 games per set, in best of 1, 3 or 5 sets
  
• 7 camera modes
  
• Game is very Modding friendly

Warning:
You can play doubles with 4 human players on 1 computer, or on 2 computers with 2 players per computer by LAN or Internet, but not on 4 computers.