Top Spin 2

PAL Xbox 360 box art
Developer(s)	Indie Built
Publisher(s)	2K Sports
Platform(s)	Xbox 360 Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)	Xbox 360 ^JP August 3, 2006 ^NA March 29, 2006 ^EU April 7, 2006
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer

Top Spin 2 is a 2006 tennis video game developed by Indie Built and originally published by 2K Sports. It is the sequel to Top Spin and is followed by Top Spin 3.

Players

Top Spin 2 includes 24 playable professional tennis players including today's superstars, and retired.

Male Players Andy Roddick Roger Federer Carlos Moyá Tommy Haas James Blake Lleyton Hewitt Guillermo Coria Tim Henman Max Mirnyi Alex Kuznetsov Brendan Evans Sébastien Grosjean

Female Players Venus Williams Maria Sharapova Ai Sugiyama Lindsay Davenport Anastasia Myskina Elena Dementieva Svetlana Kuznetsova Amélie Mauresmo Alicia Molik Jamea Jackson Angela Haynes Corina Morariu

Venues

Below is the list of the 19 courts that are included in the game, with 5 of them that are licensed. The GBA and DS versions, due to their limited capacity, only feature 8 courts from the list (the Grand Slams, Indian Wells, Miami, Rome and Chicago) plus 2 new ones that are exclusive for both consoles, in order to respond as generic venues for the Career Mode, completing the list to 21.

Grand Slam

• Wimbledon - London - Grass
• Australian Open - Melbourne - Hard
• U.S. Open - New York - Hard
• French Open - Paris - Clay

Masters

• Nasdaq-100 Open - Miami - Hard
• Osterreich Stadium (Erste Bank Open) - Vienna - Hard
• Pacific Life Open - Indian Wells - Hard
• Stade International de Paris (BNP Paribas Masters) - Paris - Indoor

Major Pro

• Stadio San Alessandro (Internazionali BNL d'Italia) - Rome - Clay
• Texas Arena (Dallas Open) - Dallas - Hard
• Tokyo Tennis Arena (Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships) - Tokyo - Hard

Minor Pro

• Abhijava Stadium (Delhi Open) - New Delhi - Hard
• Estadio do Sol (Estoril Open) - Estoril - Hard

Playgrounds

• El Sol Spring Camp - Baja - Hard
• Mediterranean Leisure Club - Zakynthos - Hard
• Chicago Public Courts - Chicago - Hard
• Stavgaard - Stavgaard - Indoor
• New Hampshire Tennis Court - New Hampshire - Grass
• Kobe Community Tennis Court - Kobe - Hard

Game Boy Advance/Nintendo DS Exclusive

• Montreal Challenge - Montréal - Hard
• Shanghai Challenge - Shanghai - Indoor

Critical reception

Reception
Review scores Publication Score 1UP.com B+ (Xbox 360) GameSpot 8.2/10 (Xbox 360) IGN 7.8/10 (Xbox 360)

• IGN AU awarded Top Spin 2 a 7.8/10
• GameSpot awarded an 8.2/10
• 1UP awarded the game a B+

External links

• Official Website