Parents' Guide to

Outlaw Tennis

By Aaron Lazenby, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 18+

Bawdy humor + tedious gameplay = double fault.

Game PlayStation 2 , Xbox 2005
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willowfaierie
willowfaierie Parent of 11-year-old
August 26, 2011
age 2+

FUN TENNIS

YOU CAN LEARN STUFF IN THE GAME. IT IS BEST GAME EVER! DON'T PLAY THAT TODDLER TENNIS GAME! IF IT'S HOT WHEN YOU PLAY TENNIS AT THE PARK, LOOK NO FURTHER! THE HOTTEST VERSION OF TENNIS IS OUT ON THAT PS2! IT IS FAMILY FRENDLY~!

This title has:

Educational value
Great messages
Great role models
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What’s It About?

OUTLAW TENNIS marks the series' latest foray into \"polite\" sports, having previously unleashed raunchy humor and bad behavior to golf and volleyball. Players control tennis troublemakers on their quest for, well, nothing. There is no point to the game but participating in a seemingly never-ending series of matches to unlock new characters.

These new characters allow you to play another seemingly never-ending series of matches to unlock another character. Sixteen different characters give players lots of opportunities to explore the game's bad taste. The controls are easy to pick up: Four buttons deliver four kinds of shots, with a turbo and spin modifier to add some flair.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say: (1 ):
Kids say: Not yet rated

The idea has potential: A contingent of criminals, lowlifes, and freaks tears up the country club in an attempt to critique a well-mannered sport. Too bad the game matches uninspired, lewd humor with tedious gameplay for an experience that fails on almost every count. Whether you control the well-endowed Don Juan, the part-time stripper, the alcoholic groupie, or the Brooklyn-bred goodfella you'll have to endure a long line of lewd jokes based on racial stereotypes, binge drinking, loose sexuality, torture, and crime.

Jokes are delivered through cut scenes after each point is scored, interrupting the flow of the game -- the very thing that makes Outlaw Tennis different becomes frustrating and boring. Despite attempts to liven the actual tennis with creative changes to the rules, this gets old really fast. With flat graphics, a clunky game engine, and animations that get reused in montages, cut scenes, etc., and you have a real loser of a tennis game.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about why all of this rudeness is supposed to add up to good fun. Is there something inherently pleasurable about deflating a polite, country club sport like tennis? Is the game trying to undermine the sport's elitist qualities or is it just looking for a quick, lewd laugh? This is part of a series: Why do Outlaw games keep getting made?

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