Overview
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 10/10
- Offline: 41 [840]
- Online: 9 [160]
- Approximate amount of time to 1000:50+ Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Multiple games
- Number of missable achievements: None
- Do cheat codes disable achievements?: N/A
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: N/A
- Glitchy achievements: No
- Unobtainable achievements: No
- Extra equipment needed: No
Virtua Tennis 3 is a very tough completion. It is a good enough tennis game, with most of the achievements well within most people's reach, in fact many for just playing the game over time. There are a couple of achievements that are absolute hell however, which I will go onto later. I will not be naming the achievements you will get as the achievement names are all descriptive of what needs to be done.
Getting some quick ones done...
Start off by creating yourself a player for the easiest 10 in the game. Win a match with him for another 20
Next you need to win as and beat every player in the game. It is best to write down a list so you can tick off who you still need to beat/play as. Make sure it is set to 1 set 2 games per set to make this fast. You also need to make sure the difficulty is on normal, you can check this in the settings. Four achievements for this.
Now follow the achievement guides for how to unlock Duke and King. You have to beat them both to unlock them. They are both very hard, but you can keep replaying them until you win. You may or may not wish to save these for later once you have played some career and got your skill level up.
Tour Mode
This is where you will be for a majority of your time playing this game. There are many achievements you will get along the way, and these will relate to progression in the following fields:
- Matches won
- Tournament progress/wins
- Competing seasons
- Moving up the rankings
- Clearing Minigames
- Clearing academy training sessions
- Unlocking stages
- Unlocking gear
- Playing games
- Shot types
- Court types played on
- Meeting pros
These will pop as you play through your career. Career mode is pretty fun, but does get harder the further you go through the ranks (as you would expect). Just make sure you make the most of your training sessions and make sure you are well rested before big games.
Gold In All Academy
This achievement has been won by very few people. It is not impossible, just unforgivably tough. It takes absolutely perfect shots and will take hours and hours until if you are lucky you will get there. The AI is very cheap, and sometimes even if you hit your shots perfectly, the game will still screw you. You have been warned!
Online
Find yourself a boosting partner using the threads found in the forums. You will need to play a bunch of ranked matches for the various achievements, but it is pretty easy to find each other these days as it is pretty much dead online. You will also need to find another duo who are boosting for the doubles related achievements.
Watch a game on VT.TV for an achievement and drop in and out of your partner's lobby 50 times for another.
Mop Up
If you have been lucky or rather skilled enough to clear all gold in academy, you will probably just be left with some grinding achievements. You can play some more of your career if you wish, but it is probably quicker to use exhibition matches to get anything more you need finished off.
To conclude, this is a very reasonable 800+ but it is not very time efficient. According to one source, less that 0.5% of people who have played this game have the full 100% but it is doable. Not by me and most people, but some. Do you have the skill to be one of the elite few?
[XBA would like to thank Corrupt. for this Roadmap]