Mario Tennis Fever Is a Fun and Wacky Tennis Game, if Not Quite a Switch 2 Exclusive Smash

Mario Tennis Fever offers a massive Grand Slam for arcade sports fans and Nintendo veterans alike

Mario Tennis Fever brings the one thing you might not expect to an arcade tennis game: variety. From characters to rackets to courts, there’s so much to unlock and mix up your experience.

Mario Tennis Fever review - Nintendo ace their latest sports game

Mario Tennis Fever is the first big Nintendo Switch 2 release of the year, but does the fever racket gimmick make it better or worse?

Part Sports Game, Part Fighting Game, Mario Tennis Fever Is My New Switch 2 Fave

Mario Tennis Fever is a must-have arcade sports game that wowed me by blending traditional techniques, power-ups, and fantastic, fighting game-like movesets.

'Mario Tennis Fever' review: Arcade fun for the Switch 2

Mario Tennis Fever makes a good argument that less can be more in the context of family-friendly sports games.The Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive title from Nintendo and longtime series developer Camelot Software feels like the product of everyone taking a good, long look at Mario Tennis Aces for the Switch and realizing it had too much going on. While I enjoyed the audacity of that game's fighting game-esque complexities, it ultimately felt alienat…

Mario Tennis Fever Review

Mario Tennis Fever has the soul of a GameCube game. Its wacky, over-the-top take on tennis is at its best when you have four friends together on the couch. And for the first time since the GameCube era, series developer Camelot has delivered an entry that feels feature complete on day one, with the most unique characters, solo and multiplayer modes, and silly gimmicks we’ve ever seen crammed into a Mario Tennis game. Sadly, that doesn’t mean it’…

Mario Tennis Fever is a fun and wacky tennis game, if not quite a Switch 2 exclusive smash

Mario Tennis Fever injects its fun arcade sports gameplay with Mario Kart-style antics, with a variety of content to unlock and mayhem to master, even if its Adventure mode could have been more substantial.