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Platform: PC Genre: Shooter / Action Publisher: Beuna Vista Games / Fox Developer: Monolith Productions ETA: August 2003
Related Links: Review: No One Lives Forever (PC) Review: No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in HARM's Way (PC)
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Tron
2.0
I
remember a few months ago when I walked into my local corner store and
saw a copy of a popular gaming publication.
I saw that they were covering Tron 2.0 on the cover and they had
given this the front page of their of magazine.
The first thoughts I could remember myself thinking was “Why?
Who cares? Is Tron
really that big a deal?” I
guess everyone has their own favorite cult movies.
My loyalties just tend to rest with other films like Big Trouble
in Little China, and Blade Runner.
So, under whelmed, I began to take a look at what the game really had to offer, and in a way, it’s main strengths probably lie in the rich backdrop that was set by the original Tron film. The game picks up where the movie left off about twenty years ago where the humans defeated the computer’s bid to take over the entire world through some nasty bit of code. Now, you play as Jet, son of the original programmer Alan Bradley who created the security program named Tron that helped to stop the evil computer program in the original movie. |
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Your
father has discovered a way to replicate what happened in the original
movie where humans can be digitized and inserted into the computer
world. (I’d love to be
inside my computer and see what really causes all a those blue screens
of death!) With the
military world interested in such a technology, your father suddenly
disappears and you begin a long quest to find him.
Your quest of course leads you into the computer world, and you
will be able to play with all of the goodies featured in the movie like
light cycle races, and of course, the Tron Disc.
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Where
game sequels to movies have failed to be stellar to anyone other than
the fans of the original movies (e.g. Blade Runner, The Thing), it
remains to be seen whether Tron 2.0 can buck the trend and get people
who didn’t care about the movie to care about the game. So far, with
the original concept and the crisp graphics, Monolith is on its way to
building a winner.
Features: Continuation
of the storyline established in the hit movie Tron. 30
single player missions. 5
multiplayer disc maps for up to 16 players. Single
and multiplayer modes for racing light cycles. Voices
of Alan Bradley and Lori reprised by their original actors. Also
featuring the voice of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. New light cycle design produced by the Concept designer of the original movie.
Tron 2.0 is scheduled to hit shelves in August.
- Mark Leung (June 8, 2003) |
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