Sports Heads: Tennis Open – A Bizarre Version Of Tennis

<p>Tennis is one of those sports that I mostly enjoy when playing it as a video game&period; The thought to watch or play the sport in real life has never occurred to me&period; But show me a tennis video game and I am all over it&comma; especially if it is of the unrealistic kind&period; I therefore decided to take look at<em> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poki&period;com&sol;en&sol;g&sol;sports-heads-tennis-open" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Sports Heads&colon; Tennis Open<&sol;a><&sol;em>&period; A game that pits heads against each other through peaceful tennis activities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A simple title screen greeted me with four different options&comma; New Game&comma; Continue Game&comma; 2 player and Instructions&period; I thought to myself &&num;8220&semi;how hard can it be to figure this game out&quest; I don&&num;8217&semi;t need instructions&excl;&&num;8221&semi; So I plunge myself headfirst into the game&comma; choose my character and my difficulty level&period; The following screen shows me that I am going to play the USA Open tournament&comma; and my first opponent is going to be a guy named Davide Ferrari&period; I eagerly click the huge green &&num;8220&semi;Play Match&&num;8221&semi; button&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;91899" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-91899" style&equals;"width&colon; 620px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04134108&sol;Sports&lowbar;Heads&lowbar;Tennis&lowbar;Bagogames&lowbar;6&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-91899 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04134108&sol;Sports&lowbar;Heads&lowbar;Tennis&lowbar;Bagogames&lowbar;6-1024x693&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sports&lowbar;Heads&lowbar;Tennis&lowbar;Bagogames&lowbar;6" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"420" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-91899" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Obstacles in the air&excl;&quest;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>When the match starts and I see the ball spawn above my chosen head&comma; Juan Martin Del Pollo&comma; I soon realize that I cannot control him with the mouse&period; I do everything I can to get him to move&comma; but Juan just stands there&comma; watching as the ball hits him in the head&comma; bounces two times on my side of the court&comma; giving my opponent 15 points as per the standard tennis scoring system&period; Now I do not know why I automatically presumed that the mouse was the way to control this game&period; Maybe that is just my assumption when playing a browser based PC game like this one&period; After backpedaling to the main menu I checked out the instructions button that I eagerly avoided at first&period; As expected it told me everything about how to play the game&period; My tennis career was on&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As I started winning and loosing matches&comma; the stages became more elaborate&comma; containing obstacles as well as a differently shaped roof&period; All of them were trying to stop my ball from soaring over the net to my opponents side of the court&period; Power ups both helped and hindered in this endeavor as well&comma; by affecting the ball in both positive or negative ways&comma; such as making it bigger&comma; smaller&comma; or more bouncy&period; They even affected the court at times by setting it on fire&excl; This meant that the ball could not even touch the ground once&comma; without it resulting in points for me or my opponent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;91900" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-91900" style&equals;"width&colon; 620px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04134052&sol;Sports&lowbar;Heads&lowbar;Tennis&lowbar;Bagogames&lowbar;8&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-91900 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;09&sol;04134052&sol;Sports&lowbar;Heads&lowbar;Tennis&lowbar;Bagogames&lowbar;8-1024x692&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Sports&lowbar;Heads&lowbar;Tennis&lowbar;Bagogames&lowbar;8" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"419" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-91900" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">What a weirdly shaped roof&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>There is a bizarre feeling about <em>Sports Heads&colon; Tennis Open&period; <&sol;em>It probably stems from the fact that I am not used to seeing heads playing tennis against each other&period; That is a good thing&comma; as I would probably sit in an asylum somewhere if I saw such things&period; The head characters work well for the games simplicity however&period; And simplicity is what I want from a game played in a web browser&comma; almost like a cell phone game&period; Something I can kill minutes with&comma; not hours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; if only we could find a way to add power ups&sol;downs to real tennis&period; Then I would try it out in a heartbeat&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em>This article contains sponsored links&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;