AO Tennis 2

AO Tennis 2 is a better-looking, smoother-playing and more fully-featured follow-up to the original.

The career mode and creation tools are the best parts of AO Tennis 2, but the gameplay struggles to keep up its end of the bargain

In my experience, AO Tennis 2 doesn’t do justice to tennis either, even though I wouldn’t exactly give tennis itself a glowing review.

AO Tennis 2 is a winner, raising the baseline for all tennis titles on PS4. There are still minor quirks to its gameplay, but it's well-presented and fun, making its enriched Career mode dangerously addictive.

There’s a genuinely brilliant game hidden away somewhere in AO Tennis 2, but you need to have the patience of a saint to put up with its horrendous frame rate issues and the impact they have on its already tricky stroke timing system.

AO Tennis 2 is most certainly a great step in the right direction, with large improvements to animations, physics and general gameplay.

A burnt child dreads the fire, as they say. The developers of AO Tennis risked and it paid off. AO Tennis 2 isn't a bad game and the bet on community content seems like the right one for a less expensive game. When you get over the initial feelings and the controls get under your skin, you'll get to enjoy AO Tennis 2.

Despite AO Tennis 2’s weaknesses, if you enjoy this sport and would like to experience a tennis player's career since the beginning and achieve various milestones, we recommend AO Tennis 2

With all its woes, AO Tennis 2 is still a vibrant and fun game to play.

Truth be told, AO Tennis 2 is not the best tennis game that I have ever played. It is, however, a solid attempt at a simulation-style sports game.