Oopppsssss. Just did buy it.
sorry

So out of curiousity then, what do you think about Virtua Tennis which offers the exact same fetures on Wii as it does on the HD system except with superior controls (you can do much more with WM+ controls than the buttons)?   Or Tiger Woods where the Wii version is universially decried as the definitive version to get / the greatest golf game ever made and has more features than it's HD counterparts?  Still for novices?

The thing that annoys me is that its metacritic score is largely down because of the people that can barely play tennis in the first place, and then expect the game to play it for them.

For what it's worth the Metacritic score will sort itself out eventually.  If those low scores are simply due to a couple of unprofessional reviewers not allowing enough time to get used to the controls then the scores will get swallowed up by the majority.  If it receives highly polarised reviews then clearly it does have some accessability issues and deserves to be marked down.  I have no problem with the controls being hard to get used to as long as they ultimately allow me to control the game with a high degree of precision, so i for one am not yet turned off.

LooooooL!!!

i'll buy it tomorrow  :  )

So, got it today and played it for half a day now and I'm utterly disappointed. Sure, after some practice it clicks and you know what to do and how to win, but it's just not intuitive.

And that's the big thing I expected from Motion Plus games, to be intuitive and transfer motions you know from real sports 1:1 into the game. In GST, you have motion controls, but you have to swing the Wiimote the way the game wants you to and not the way you would do it on the tennis court. Also, it's not 1:1 but has some delay.

Additionally, it sometimes just does not do what you wanted and your player hits early. Does not happen that often after some hours of practice, but it should NEVER happen, because it totally kills the fun and it absolutely kills the outlook of having instant-fun multiplayer matches with your friends due to the imprecise controls and slow learning curve.

Let's see next week how Virtua Tennis implemented M+ and it looks like Sports Resort is a much better example of what M+ can do. Really looking forward to table tennis.  GST just isn't the revolution one was hoping for but rather an updated version of Top Spin Wii with all it's faults.

I'll wait for Wii SPorts resort. However, It's hard to say if Grand slam tennis is worth without playing regarding the load of reviews. A demo service would have been fine, but I guess there are good reasons for nintendo to not allow that.

another mixed review of GST

http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Grand_Slam_Tennis_Wii_Review/4993

any impressions of new owners of the game or comparisons to VT 2009 ?

This is why you wait until July 26th to get Wii Sports Resort so you can have WM+

Why are people ignoring VT2009?

GST impressions everywhere everyday. No VT2009 ffs!