What I look for in a game like this is realistic gameplay, good sound effects, lots of realistic preferences and options and a decent challenging level of play. Tennis Elbow delivers on all counts. The ball movement, player movements and range of shots are as close to reality as you'll get on a tennis game on the Mac.

However, Tennis Elbow is a bit tricky to get started. The first problem you'll have is configuring the controls. There's no point even trying to play with the mouse so just go for the keyboard settings that you can access by clicking "Controls" on the right menu. More details of Tennis Elbow'skeyboard controls can be found in the Public Notes below. Note that in this demo of Tennis Elbow, you can only choose to play a one off match on one surface but in the full game you have all professional surfaces.

The player sometimes feels a little slow to respond and there doesn't seem to be any way to make diving shots but overall the controls feel good. It will take you a few sets just to get used to the way the player moves in Tennis Elbow. In the full version of Tennis Elbow, you can go on a World Tour against 3000 players in 300 tournaments evolving over a period of 36 years, with a complete double-ranking system in Single and Double competitions. In addition, there are 6 difficulty levels, each split in 10 sub-levels with full ATP style ranking system. Finally, the attention to detail even includes 9 different surfaces : clay, green clay, grass, hard, blue-green hard, classic synthetic, NewLine synthetic, indoor hard and indoor synthetic, each with a specific rebound.

If you don't want to play against the computer generated opponents in Tennis Elbow, there is a LAN mode to play against friends elsewhere. The main downside of Tennis Elbow however is that there are only two configurable characters. It's a shame the developers didn't have the rights to include the real names of players but for a small developer, the licensing costs would be too expensive.

Tennis Elbow 2011 is an excellent tennis game that will have you going back for more long after you install it.

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Master Kick is a fun arcade football game that's already been available for a while on different portable devices (Palm, Pocket PC). It's not exactly like other football sims you may have seen before: actually, it's a table-football (or foosball) game, meaning you play with football players attached to bar that you can move up and down to play the ball around the game field.

I don't know if it was because I'm hopeless at table-football, or because the game's AI is too high, but I found scoring goals quite difficult even in the easiest playing mode. On the upside, the game in itself is quite elaborate, with a varied selection of fields and even some crowd cheering sound effects in the background. You can play either a quick match or a complete league, and also try different team layouts. The only thing I missed was the possibility to play against another human opponent.

Master Kick is a fun table-football game, more like an arcade than a simulator. Pity it doesn't have a multiplayer option!

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Besides updating the game with the latest team and player data, FIFA 12 has been furnished with some impressive new features.

In recent years, the FIFA series has developed into a worthy rival to Pro Evolution Soccer, and in fact many will argue that FIFA 12 is a more complete soccer experience than PES 2012.

What's new in FIFA 12?

Building on the success of recent years, FIFA 12 introduces three main developments: precision dribbling, tactical defending and the player impact engine. These all - and especially the latter of the three - have a major impact on the gaming experience.

What does this mean?

The impact engine has arguably the greatest impact on gameplay, and it really changes the dynamics of tackling and contact in the game. FIFA 12's impact engine makes tackles look and feel much more realistic, and will no doubt result in more player injuries! When two players jump for a ball in the air in FIFA 12, they will no longer always land together perfectly, but may fall depending on the contact made with the other player.

Defending in general has been refined, and it's not longer possible to just hold down the 'pressure' button and expect the nearest defender to squeeze up and snatch the ball from the attacker. In fact, do that in FIFA 12 and you can seriously mistime the challenge and allow the player through. Timing is everything in this new tactical defending system, and while it's frustrating it's ultimately more rewarding when you start getting it right.

When dribbling in FIFA 12, you do feel in much more control than previous versions. Getting past defenders is more enjoyable as a result, and neat tricks seem easier to pull off.

How realistic is FIFA 12?

Very. As always, FIFA 12 is fully licensed so you'll be able to play with your favorite players and clubs, and the game will follow the summer and winter transfer windows, so teams will mirror their real life counterparts.

Graphics have had an incremental improvement, and animation is also better than last year's game. The full version of FIFA 12 will also have a big online component, with a much greater social element. Support Your Club League Tables will exist, allowing your performances with your favorite teams to contribute to their community standings overall. EA is also promising to keep FIFA 12 fresh with real-world soccer news.

What's in the demo?

The FIFA 12 demo gives you access to Manchester City, AC Milan, Olympic Marseille, Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona and Arsenal. The options are fairly limited, and settings such as choice of ball, weather and length of the halves are not incorporated in this demo. All other aspects of the game are also missing, so you play just one practice game, but it still gives you a good impression of FIFA 12.

FIFA 12 is an incredible soccer gaming experience which is as close you can get to playing a real game of soccer on your Mac.

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Football Manager 2013 features over 50 international teams to choose from and around half a million real life players and managers. Your mission is quite simply to manage your football club to victory in international and domestic competitions.

There are many other features various enhancements such as a new graphics engine, which improves the movements of the players during matches and makes everything more realistic. There is more detail in the gameplay too such as weather conditions which can change the outcome of a game. The characteristics of both players and game conditions have been refined and there is more detail such as the addition of Directors of Football and full coaching staff.

You can play in two modes - Classic and Challenge Mode. Classic basically means less responsibilities and things to keep track of so its easier to play. Challenge is just like the real thing and involves genuine stress. Plus new to Steam - Network Play so you can pit your wits against your friends in your own private leagues and cups.

There are new players to buy and you can now choose to pay either in cash or installments. As well as balancing the books however, you must also put together a coaching staff that's able to take your team to the top. You also have to keep and eye on the news surrounding other clubs and even maintain good relations with the Press. very importantly, its relationship with the press.

Football Manager 2013 is a superb soccer management sim that fans of the Football Manager franchise won't be disappointed by.

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