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Virtua Tennis 3 features 20 international tennis stars like Roger Federer, Lindsay Davenport or Maria Sharapova against which you need to compete in the heart of the game: The World Tour. You create your own character and play to reach the number one rank on the world ranking list.
Virtua Tennis 3 is not a simulation like Top Spin 2 and only needs three buttons to perform all possible shot. Still time needs to be invested in training the character through several mini-games in which need you to hit a circle on the other side of the net or defeat aliens by hitting them with returns.
You can also play as one of the professionals against the CPU or a friend (or two if you play a Double). True to the series of the home version, there are also 12 mini-games available to play against your friends. These include the ones from the World Tour training as well as different ones like Curling or Super-Bingo. The Tournament Mode and Exhibition Mode are also present in the arcade version, but the Challenge Mode has been replaced by the World Tour Mode and Party Mode.
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Virtua Tennis series- Previous: Virtua Tennis: World Tour (2005)
- Next: Virtua Tennis 2009 (2009)
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People credited on this game were also credited on:
- Virtua Tennis 4, a group of 15 people
- Virtua Fighter 5, a group of 9 people
- Virtua Tennis 2, a group of 7 people
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- Nivine Emeran on 152 other games
- Takuma Hatori on 54 other games
- Hiroshi Kawaguchi on 51 other games
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1001 Video Games
Virtua Tennis 3 appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
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- GameSpy
- 2007 – #8 PSP Game of the Year
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Game added by Sicarius.
Arcade added by mars_rulez. PSP added by Sciere.
Additional contributors: tarmo888, Sciere, Patrick Bregger, Starbuck the Third, FatherJack.
Game added March 29, 2007. Last modified November 9, 2025.