Rafa Nadal Tennis (Mobile)

Rafa Nadal Tennis has excellent presentation, easy to use menus, smooth camera movement, fantastic looking courts and solid character animation. Beyond this superficial front, however, it has very little to offer. The unusual control scheme, which admittedly works well for unresponsive mobile keys, leaves you with little depth in gameplay. Although you can choose between four courts, they differ only in the colour of the playing surface and have no effect on the bounce of the ball.

Opponent AI is disappointing with little to separate the difficulty levels than the amount of double faults they would serve in each game. The main downfall is that you can't play a single game of tennis, you have to play at least a full set, meaning that you or your opponent have to win a minimum of six games. Coupled with the control method, this leads to a very tedious experience. Rafa Nadal may be one of the hottest things on the tennis circuit, sadly this game seeds a lot lower.

Out now from THQ Wireless.
To get this game on your mobile phone text NADAL to 88188. Game costs £5.

Written by Nick Gripton.