May 27, 2006

  • "Rockstar games;" most famous for the Grand Theft Auto franchise, have released one of the best games out right now for the xbox 360. "Table Tennis." You read that right, table freakin tennis. At first it's easy to ask what's so great about a table tennis video game, but it's one of those simple fun games that is able to give you many hours of entertainment. Just think of another game that people dismissed at first, but then realized it's one of the best multi-player games out there; Virtua Tennis. It's because at heart, this game has a great game engine. Not only that, but the competition and energy that comes forth from the gameplay can be very addicting, especially when you are playing a human player. Getting a good shot pass your opponents paddle is very satisfying. Having a rally where the ping pong ball goes back and forth 115+ times between the players is also very very intensely fun.

    You also have online play where you can play other gamers from around the world. Me and my friend tried playing online recently, and we experienced NO LAG at all. It was almost as if he was sitting right next to me, especially since we were using the xbox360 headset to communicate with each other (also no lag delay there). At one point of our online game session, the game notified us that we even had a "spectator" watching our match. It was kinda neat competiting in front of an audience, even if it was only one stranger.

    Rockstar games' Table Tennis.
    Awesome Awesome Awesome.
    Now if I can only play like that in real life.