Top Spin 2

Top Spin 2
PAL Xbox 360 box art
Developer(s)	Indie Built
Publisher(s)	2K Sports
Platform(s)	Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PC
Release date(s)	Xbox 360 JP August 3, 2006 NA March 29, 2006 EU April 7, 2006
Genre(s)	Sports game (Tennis)
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone OFLC: G PEGI: 3+
Media/distribution	DVD9, GBA Cartridge, Flash Card

Top Spin 2 is a 2006 tennis video game developed by Indie Built and originally published by 2K Sports. It is the sequel to Top Spin and is followed by Top Spin 3.

Players

Top Spin 2 includes 24 playable professional tennis players including today's superstars, and retired.

Male Players

• Andy Roddick
• Roger Federer
• Carlos Moyá
• Tommy Haas
• James Blake
• Lleyton Hewitt
• Guillermo Coria
• Tim Henman
• Max Mirnyi
• Alex Kuznetsov
• Brendan Evans
• Sébastien Grosjean

Female Players

• Venus Williams
• Maria Sharapova
• Ai Sugiyama
• Lindsay Davenport
• Anastasia Myskina
• Elena Dementieva
• Svetlana Kuznetsova
• Amélie Mauresmo
• Alicia Molik
• Jamea Jackson
• Angela Haynes
• Corina Morariu

Venues

Below is the list of the 19 courts that are included in the game, with 5 of them that are licensed. The GBA version, due to its limited capacity, only features 8 courts from the list (the Grand Slams, Indian Wells, Miami, Rome and Chicago) plus 2 new ones that are exclusive for the console, in order to respond as generic venues for the Career Mode, completing the list to 21.

Grand Slam

• Wimbledon - London - Grass
• Australian Open - Melbourne - Hard
• U.S. Open - New York - Hard
• Court Principal - Paris - Clay

Masters

• Nasdaq-100 Open - Miami - Hard
• Osterreich Stadium - Vienna - Hard
• Pacific Life Open - Indian Wells - Hard
• Stade International de Paris - Paris - Indoor

Major Pro

• Stadio San Alessandro - Rome - Clay
• Texas Arena - Dallas - Hard
• Tokyo Tennis Arena - Tokyo - Hard

Minor Pro

• Abhijava Stadium - New Delhi - Hard
• Estadio do Sol - Estoril - Hard

Playgrounds

• El Sol Spring Camp - Baja - Hard
• Mediterranean Leisure Club - Zakynthos - Hard
• Chicago Public Courts - Chicago - Hard
• Stavgaard - Stavgaard - Indoor
• New Hampshire Tennis Court - New Hampshire - Grass
• Kobe Community Tennis Court - Kobe - Hard

Game Boy Advance Exclusive

• Montreal Challenge - Montréal - Hard
• Shanghai Challenge - Shanghai - Indoor

Critical reception

Reception
Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	B+ (Xbox 360)
GameSpot	8.2/10 (Xbox 360)
IGN	7.8/10 (Xbox 360)

• IGN AU awarded Top Spin 2 a 7.8/10
• GameSpot awarded an 8.2/10
• 1UP awarded the game a B+

External links

Official Website