Pete Sampras Tennis '97 is a tennis video game developed and published by Codemasters. It was released for Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS. It was also released for the PlayStation as Sampras Extreme Tennis. It was endorsed by multiple Grand Slam champion Pete Sampras who appears in the game as an unlockable character. It is the third and final game in the Pete Sampras Tennis series, following Pete Sampras Tennis and Sampras Tennis 96.
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Developer(s) | Codemasters |
Publisher(s) | Codemasters |
Platform(s) | Windows, MS-DOS, PlayStation |
Release | 1996 (PS1) 1997 (PC) |
Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
Players can choose to compete in an exhibition versus match against the CPU or another human player, or participate in a tournament or knockout mode. In tournament mode, the player selects from one of four unseeded rookies to compete in a world tour. Knockout mode is an eight-player round robin tournament.
The game received positive reviews upon release.[citation needed] PlayStation Plus gave the game 90%,[citation needed] while Games Machine awarded the game a 95% rating.[citation needed]
Ed Lomas for Computer Gaming World said "Currently the best PlayStation tennis game available, and one which will appeal to many people. It just doesn't really feel as though you ARE Pete, you're just controlling him."[1]
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