TopSpin 2K25 vs Tiebreak Tennis Gameplay Comparison: Alcaraz vs Federer

Let's settle this once and for all, TopSpin 2K25 or Tiebreak Tennis. Which is better?

[MoreAyReef]

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[cojeda]

It’s no contest. TB has beautiful player models, best roster ever & nice graphics but gameplay is so broken. TS miles better. TB animations, movement, serve & flat shot all messed up. TS gameplay is very good but player models are pretty bad. They need to merge lol. Nice videos.

[TheFighter]

It’s honestly hard to pick a standout between the two games right now because one has what the other needs 😅 Great vid!

[rotcario]

Tiebreak is eventually going to be the best tennis game out there with long support and corrections.

[dingcastro]

Alcaraz in Topspin looks like Pete Sampras hahahha

[donomar_]

I've now played both and I prefer tiebreak on my initial impressions. It's just a much more immersive tennis experience, all the animations, and realistic player movements are so nice. I prefer TS for career mode due to the grand slam licensing, but TB for general play

[midisong]

Awesome video. You might find that I’m crazy but my favourite is tennis elbow 4

[arenni]

I think both have some better qualities than the other but overall it looks like Topspin2k25 is still better.

For me, I feel like topspin could improve its flaws quicker and more easily than Tiebreaks. Some sort of amalgamation of both games would be perfect.

I thought Tiebreak would have been better or a much closer rival as the graphics and first look videos looked pretty decent, but seeing them like this Topspin2k25 appears much better in its Gameplay.

2k really have an opportunity to make this the best and are failing miserably by not listening to past and present fan base.

Thanks for the video, great to see them side by side for an honest comparison ❤

[jonathanb]

It's funny to me that TopSpin had Federer motion capturing his groundstrokes and serve yet the animation of his serve in Tiebreak feels much more accurate.

The gameplay like the movement, and ball physics and stuff, everything during the point feel better in TopSpin, but there's a lot to be said for the players themselves feeling truer to life in Tiebreak. Like Alcaraz feels much more like Alcaraz based on his animations and physicality in Tiebreak than TopSpin. Very annoying that for some reason no tennis game seems capable of having the best of both of these games in one, like how hard can it be really.

[donjoevillacorta]

I love how topspin moves. Characters gameplay is more run on topspin. Tb is just ok for me. I like career mode. It seems harder. In tb it’s hard to be a volley player. Really impossible. In topspin even if your character is at its lowest it still does very well playing up to the net. Graphically topspin is much smoother

[jbm]

They need to merge these games and add the ball physics from TE4 or Full Ace, then we’d be sorted

[speedfreak]

TB hitting animations are way better, more realistic, just need to fix player movement and gameplay and will be perfect!

[realisticgameplaytv]

Topsin becomes more arcade with each update, while TieBreak becomes more simulation.

[garylee]

Call me crazy but I think the ball movement in Tiebreak is too fast. Topspin is slow but the player movement is realistic as opposed to hurky jurky movement of Tiebreak trying to keep up with ball speed. It might not be sexy to the eye showing down ball movement but maybe the only way it can work right.

[michielpoortvliet]

Is Thomas Muster also in the game? I always liked that old school austrian porn star vibe he had goin on

[lorensancho]

its like players are slipping through the court in TB, Topsin has better animations but more arcade, if TB corrects the gameplay and animations is going to be the best tennis game ever

[JaggusBaro]

Tiebreak is almost the perfect tennis game if only they could fix the movement and the AI

[NBCDerrick]

Easy: The tenniscourts and crowd look way better in Top Spin. Generally I think the playermodels do look better in Tiebreak. Especially the hitting animations are way better. They are more true to life. The sounds are also easy to place. The grunts in Top Spin are horrible and not realistic. Cartoonish at best. In Tiebreak they are better. The sound of the ball being hit is also a bit better in Tiebreak. Gameplaywise cant say anthing about Tiebreak because I havent played it but I think Top Spin is only OK and nothing to rave about. There have been better Top Spin games in the series than the new one.

[HankHell]

Both games are fun, but neither are great. Still, for attention to the right details, I prefer Tiebreak. When you're not abusing slices, it feels like the game rewards actual tennis strategy a little more than TK. It also looks better - good player design, and I think it's HUGE that they include the players' real stroke animations - especially serve. I do prefer the serving mechanics in TK though, and the timing meter was fun, but I think the timing meter might be why it feels like the players are standing still a little too long before they hit the ball. TK got old after a few weeks for me, but if TB improved the AI difficulty, the game would go from a C- to A+

[newdraftanimations]

Tiebreak 🔥👏🏽 It needs some fixes here and there but it's clearly superior