Tennis Elbow 2013

Really fun and excelent game. Sure the graphics could be a bit better and doubles partner AI could be better but it's not like ugly looking.

An unbelievably complex tour simulation, only let down by dated graphics and animations, and an (albeit easily remedied) lack of tournament and player licenses.

It looks ugly but it plays beautifully for the most part. The player files are easily modded and there are official modding guides that enables all but the most computer inept people to mod the games player and tournament base to their wishes. The best part about this game is that it follows an "easy to learn - difficult to master" learning curve. By that I mean that you will almost always struggle to win matches against top rated players and this isn't achieved through cheap scrips such as FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer, but rather just having a quite decent AI. It's admittedly easier to code a good AI for a tennis game than a soccer/football game, but that's really not the point. The point is that Tennis Elbow is a freakishly good game behind the scenes while it looks a bit rough visually. I also wish there was some way to use a mixed control-scheme as I'd prefer to use keyboard and mouse together and not one or the other. What the game needs to evolve is more movement animations, including lunges to reach those tough balls, higher quality models and textures and a thorough sound effect overhaul. Mods can only do so much, and quite honestly while the sound mods available for this game through the official forums are better than the default ones, they're all abysmal at best. I also wonder why this is listed as a new release when it's quite old.