New Star Tennis feels and looks very much like a Wii game, but the important question is – does it play like one? You start off as a young tennis player and it’s your task to guide them from the beginnings of a brand new career to the point where they are one of the top players in the world of tennis.

New Star Tennis allows you to plan your weeks ahead, deciding how best to spend your players’ time, split between training, rest, shopping, visiting the casino, playing darts and karting. New Star Tennis manages to capture several gameplay styles into a single game, with each activity becoming its own mini game. All the additional gameplay modes manage to come back to the core goal of improving your players skill set.

You’ll find it extremely hard at first to enter any contests due to your underwhelming tennis abilities, so you may find yourself hitting the casino or racing sections to try to earn some money to spend on objects such as new gym equipment. The casino section enables you to pchallengelay several casino games; while they are all very basic it can still be quite fun to risk your finances on blackjack or slot machines.
Your luck will directly affect how you will be able to train in the future – if you spent too much money and can’t afford any gym equipment you’ll find yourself struggling to keep up the pace, and ultimately struggling to win matches in the future.

Horse racing lets you bet your earnings on, and once again it’s not revolutionary but certainly functional as minigames. Kart racing improves your characters happiness by racing around a track in a flash style minigame. While darts also increasing your happiness and is also self explanatory.  

To be able to improve your game and stand a chance of winning you need to train, and this is where you’ll most likely find yourself when first starting out. Each day you can train once on one of seven types of abilities. The training is done by either playing in game and hitting a target with various shot types, or buying and using equipment. None of the training events partially take very long, and while sometimes they can get quite repetitive, they do get progressively harder.

Training is where you’ll get your first real glimpse of actual tennis, and it’s obvious the gameplay is very simplistic. Movement is controlled by the arrow keys and several letters represent several shot types. The aim is to be able to move to the correct position, aim at where you want to get the ball and finally decide the right amount of power to use – it’s far from complicated but still poses some challenge.
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