#38
'Virtua Tennis'
for the SEGA Dreamcast released in 2000.
The only sports-game good enough to be on my list, 'Virtua Tennis' is more than just that. Besides just playing regular tennis matches, the game included a full scale career mode. Here there were training sessions to be completed and your gear could be upgraded by purchasing items in stores. Gear could also be unlocked by doing good in those training excersizes. Essentially, training were just mini-games with a tennis-twist. The overall goal in this mode though was to climb the rankings by winning tennis matches.
For it's time, 'Virtua Tennis' was unbelievable. The physics of the game as well as the graphics were top notch and unsurpassed by anything else on consoles. Except maybe one other Dreamcast game, that's later on the list. If you had a Dreamcast and games like this, Sony's PlayStation 2 wasn't very interesting, even if you've had the best of fun with their original PlayStation. It didn't seem to be an upgrade over what we already had. I could blame this game for the fact that I never even touched or seen a PS2 in real life.
The game would rank in the upper regions of most played multiplayer-games. In the Dreamcast's heyday, we used to play this game multiplayer all the time. In fact, I even had whole tournaments among friends and family, spending entire days competing. It's quite rare for me to have a game that does that. Usually, I couldn't care less about the multiplayer aspects of any game, but sometimes, something comes along to remind me that player together can be fun.
#37 Hint
This detective gets involved in a plot revolving around a certain mythical box.
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