Let's get this out of the way first: Top Spin 2 looks like a bona fide next-generation game. The game looked fine at E3 2005, which is where we first saw the game running in playable form, but it seems to have made some good progress since then. Player models of famous tennis stars like Roger Federer look remarkably natural and even seem to animate better than last time--no small feat considering the limber and lifelike movement we saw at E3. This time, we got a look at a few new court types and they all seem to benefit from the graphical power of the 360. The game's sophisticated light and shadow effects and the amount of background animation during a normal game also helped show off the horsepower of the console.
