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PC | Action | Tron 2.0

Boxart for Tron 2.0
Tron 2.0 48 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 5.0
  • SOUND: 4.5
  • CONTROL: 4.0
  • FUN FACTOR 5.0
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.3
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.2
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

Review: Tron 2.0

Review by DANELEKTRO | 08/26/2003 | 15:48:45 PM PST

Greetings, programs! The Master Control Program choses you to serve your system on the game grid.

If you think Tron 2.0 is nostalgia for old-school geeks?well, it is, but it?s not just that. License notwithstanding, it?s an excellent first-person action/adventure in its own right.

In Like Flynn
It took two decades for real-world computer technology to catch up to the groundbreaking visions of Disney?s 1982 movie. The game picks up 20 years after the film, as Jet Bradley, son of film hero Alan, gets digitized and must lead a high-resolution revolution to save the system from a corrupting virus?not to mention the evil Kernel. You?re armed with a Frisbee-like disc, but you?ll also acquire plenty more projectile weapons and subroutines, allowing you to upgrade your character?s abilities in an unusually flexible RPG-like manner.

Rage Inside The Machine
Graphically, Tron 2.0 had to be a stunner, and it is. The better your video card, the better the glow effects, which are really the key to Tron?s cool visuals. The viral corruption looks like a toxic earthquake, and there are fun visual surprises around every turn. The game looks incredible on a P4 2.7 GHz with a Radeon 9800 Pro, but still looks extremely impressive (and played wonderfully) on an Athlon 1.7GHz running a lowly GeForce 3. Excellent voice acting (including movie vets Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan), sound effects (the footsteps are dead-on) and Wendy Carlos-inspired music make the audio experience no less rich. Monolith is no stranger to first-person combat, so the main controls are solid and robust; however, the light cycle game, which is the core of the LAN multiplayer mode (Internet gamers fight with discs), proves frustratingly harder than it looks.

Whether you?re on a nostalgia trip or just looking for an unusual take on sci-fi gaming, Tron 2.0 is sure to show you sights you?ve never seen in a game before.


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