Mario Tennis: Power Tour
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North American box art
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| Developer(s) | Camelot Software Planning |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Yutaka Yamamoto |
| Producer(s) | Shinji Hatano Hiroyuki Takahashi Shugo Takahashi |
| Designer(s) | Hiroyuki Takahashi Shugo Takahashi |
| Composer(s) | Motoi Sakuraba |
| Series | Mario Tennis |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
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| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 80.76% |
| Metacritic | 81/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| EGM | 6.67/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Game Informer | 7.75/10 |
| GameSpot | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpy |   |
| GameZone | 9/10 |
| IGN | 9/10 |
| NGC Magazine | |
| Nintendo Power | 7/10 |
| Nintendo World Report | 10/10 |
| Detroit Free Press | |
| The Sydney Morning Herald |  |
Mario Tennis: Power Tour, known as Mario Power Tennis in Europe and Australia, and as Mario Tennis Advance (マリオテニスアドバンス Mario Tenisu Adobansu?) in Japan, is a sports game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It was released on September 13, 2005, in Japan, on November 18, 2005, in Europe, on December 1, 2005, in Australia, and on December 5, 2005, in North America. It is the sequel to the Game Boy Color version of Mario Tennis. Unlike Mario Tennis, players cannot hook their game up with the respective Nintendo GameCube version. It was re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console in 2014.
The gameplay of Mario Tennis: Power Tour is similar to Mario Power Tennis’ gameplay. Players play tennis with other characters, in both doubles and singles, and there are several mechanics such as topspin, slice, and "Power Shots" (Special Shot in the Japanese version). There are both Offensive Power Shots and Defensive Power Shots which are earned further into the game. Offensive Power Shots are very powerful attacks; they power-up the ball and when they make contact with another player, they put a side effect on him/her such as knocked back a little bit, running around dazed, etc. Defensive Power Shots can negate the secondary effects of Offensive Power Shots and they can reach balls which normally would be out of reach. There’s topspin and slice, and topspin has more power than slice, while slice spin exchanges a tiny bit of power for more curve in the character's shot. As well as this, there is also a variety of shots, such as lobs or smashes.
There are several characters in Mario Tennis: Power Tour. The two main characters to choose from are Clay (Max in the European version; Norty in the Japanese version), a male power player; and Ace (Tina in the European version; Tabby in the Japanese version), a female technical player. The player can change the name of the character they choose to play as, and also choose the character's dominant hand for playing tennis (right or left); the character the player didn't choose will be their doubles partner and his/her name cannot be changed.
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