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EA Sports has launched its Grand Slam Tennis 2 video game. The game is available for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, with support for the Move controller. The game feature both past and present athletes, including John McEnroe, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal.

Here are some highlights of the gameplay features:

• All-New Total Racquet Control: Control every shot with the right analog stick, smashing forehands, backhands, overheads and volleys with precision, accuracy and power.
• Become a Champion: Become a true Grand Slam tournament champion by capturing all four major championships in succession.
• PlayStation Move Support: The motion control experience gets you on your feet and puts a racquet right in the palm of your hands.
• Legends of Now and Then: Play with or against more than 20 of the greatest players to ever grace the courts, including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Bjorn Borg, Maria Sharapova, Serena and Venus Williams.
• Professional, Realistic, Organic (P.R.O.) AI: The playing styles and behaviors of the sport’s greatest stars are captured right down to their signature swings and emotional reactions. Realistic tactics and strategies are your keys to success against each legend whether playing on hard court, clay or grass.
• ESPN Grand Slam Tournament Classics: Relive or rewrite some of the most memorable moments in tennis. From Borg versus McEnroe, to Nadal versus Federer, play your way through history unlocking up to 25 amazing moments of Grand Slam tournaments.
• EA Sports Game Face: Use the Game Face Creator web application to make a lifelike 3D avatar as a playable character in the game.

The graphics and sound are impressive. Take a look:

Photo: EA Sports

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John Fugelsang is about as multifaceted as you get in showbiz. The Long Island native, 42, has made us laugh on America’s Funniest Home Videos, crushed it during appearances on Politically Incorrect, co hosted talk show McEnroe and put on his acting hat in Coyote Ugly, Becker and The Michael Richards Show. The no-holds-barred comic is bringing his one-man show to the Parker Playhouse Saturday night.

Donat blame Bobby.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shamelessly told a crowd of mourners at tragic wife Mary Richardson Kennedyas funeral yesterday that her suicide was not his fault.

aI know I did everything I could to help her,a Kennedy said in his eulogy at St. Patrick Church in Bedford, where attendees included Chevy Chase, Larry David, Glenn Close and Susan Sarandon.

Kennedy, who was raspy and appeared tired, told the crowd that someone told him not to blame himself for Maryas shocking suicide last week.

aThe day before she died, she called me and said, aYou know me better than anyone in the world,a a he said. aShe said, aI was such a good girl.a I said, aI know you are and you still are.a She really fought so hard. She had these demons, and she didnat deserve it.a

Mary, 52, hanged herself Wednesday in the barn of her Westchester mansion.

Kennedy spent most of his eulogy lavishing praise on his wife a although he noted that she harbored a grudge against him.

aShe was a SoHo girl . . . She blamed me for taking her away from her profession [to raise a family],a he said, referring to her former career as an architectural designer in Manhattan.

The memorial came a day after a bitter family feud between RFK Jr. and his estranged wifeas family over who would claim her body.

Her six siblings didnat attend the funeral.

Mourners also included Caroline Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, Edward James Olmos, John McEnroe and Andre BalA!zs.

The church a where Maryas four children, Conor, 18, Kyra, 17, Finn, 15, and Aiden, 11, had their first communions a was packed, with the crowd spilling into the lobby.

RFK Jr. remembered his wife as an adventurous woman with selfless spirit and dedication to her family.

aShe was the most extraordinary woman I ever met,a he said. aI had feelings for her that I will never have for another human being.a

aHer greatest quality was her courage,a he added.

His eulogy followed a heartfelt speech by Larry David and longtime friend and sister-in-law Kerry Kennedy.

Kerry punctuated the somber funeral with laughter a recalling river rafting with Mary, when they were stranded on a sandbar in Colombia in 1977.

She said Mary put all her clothes in plastic bags to keep them dry but ended up giving them to pals while she wore soaking-wet clothes.

aShe loved the sense of adventure,a Kerry said, adding, aShe was beaming the day [her son Finn] got arrested for riding the conveyor belt on the baggage claim.a

She also recounted how Mary once convinced Andy Warhol to help raise funds for the campaign of her husbandas uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, by donating a painting

Westchester police escorted the hearse to the church a little after 10 a.m., and RFK Jr. and the coupleas children followed in a black Lincoln Town Car.

Family matriarch Ethel Kennedy, a veteran of such grim family gatherings, rode behind them inside a black SUV.

The wooden casket had no flowers on it and was carried by her children, one of her sisters and the gardener who discovered her body hanging inside the familyas barn.

RFK Jr. did not carry the coffin inside, where Maryas body was rested between large vases of white roses and delphiniums.

Daughter Kyra read a psalm and son Aiden helped present gifts.

When the memorial ended at 12:45 p.m., Robert Kennedy Jr., his sons Conor and Aiden, Kathleen aKicka Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy III served as pallbearers as they loaded the casket into a hearse for a four-hour drive to Maryas final resting place, St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass. Sargent and Eunice Shriver a a Kennedy sister a are also buried there.

At the Massachusetts burial last night, 65 mourners dressed in black gathered around the grave. Mourners drove to the cemetery in their own cars, including Ted Kennedy Jr., who carried a bouquet of white flowers.

RFK Jr. stood by and watched as his children bowed their heads and bent over to touch the casket.

Before the funeral, Kerry choked back tears as she addressed a crowd of reporters.

aMary suffered from depression, and itas a disease that so many, many, many Americans suffer from,a she said.

aThatas what Mary did her whole life. She was battling those demons and keeping them out of the paradise that was Mary.a

On Friday, RFK Jr. bought eight plots at St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, including one for Mary, Maki Monument Co. told The Post.

Maryas grave is positioned in a new row, a short distance from the Kennedy graves.

The Richardsons fought in court Friday to stop her from being buried in the heart of Kennedy country, but divorce lawyer Patricia Hennessey failed to convince a judge to let them take control of her body.

Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese and Marcia Scott Harrison

kbriquelet@nypost.com

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