Beach Volleyball s60

Beach Volley recreates beach volleyball as best it can with all the basic rules remaining intact. The AI, in the later levels in particular, is challenging and won’t concede a point without a fight (unless that is, you get an ace, which in this game is quite easy to do). The controls are amazingly simple. You control the 2 players, one using the buttons 1 and 3, and the other using 4 and 6 (moving forward and back). To pass the ball, simply make sure you’re underneath the ball when it lands and don’t press a thing. After about a 10 minute learning curve, you begin to pre-emptively defending against smashes, and passing the ball for the other player to smash. It’s an excellent system, and once learnt is very easy to play.

The graphics in PBV are top notch. Everything from the hair on the players to the boats sailing in the background are extremely well detailed and animated, and the game employs some of the best animation techniques I’ve seen. Vivid and colourful, the game recreates the beach like no other similar game. Also, the animations are very fluid, something extremely important in a fast paced game like this. The shadows, the colours, the animations… It’s impossible to find a fault in the graphics.


Beach Volleyball s60