Tron 2.0 Killer App

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:39 am

Picked this up as a US import recently, supposed to have been coming out for months here but I can't seem to find the fucker...

Been looking forward to this for ages, love the movie to bits - yeah, I know it's aged badly, and the dialogue's kinda hokey and it's probably really bad in reality, but what can I say? It's a slightly embarassing hangover from my childhood, especially seeing as the first video game i ever played was TRON Deadly Discs on Intellivision, which I still love to this day.

Just wondering what everyone else that's played it thinks? Started off pretty boring, but once past the first five or so levels it seems to open out and get pretty entertaining. Controls are nice and solid, and it's done a remarkable job aesthetically of bringing the movie alive. No Halo beater, but a cool enough game in it's own right. Your thoughts?

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:06 pm

Never played the Xbox version, however i found it to be enjoyable enough on the PC.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:57 am

I'm currently playing it, and I must say that it's different. Not a run-n-gun, but not a tactical shooter. Surprisingly long, too. I find it to be fun.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:55 am

I liked the game (PC version), but I found the weapon system to be kind of weak. All of the extra weapons consume energy pretty quickly, and only the disc can block, so you end up using the upgraded disc most of the time.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:23 am

Does the XBOX version contain the original TRON arcade game? I know the GBA rev. does.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:27 am

I got the Xbox "Killer App" version too. The low resolution is a bit ugly, from what I've seen of PC screenshots it seems to have been designed with high resolution PC graphics in mind to achieve that "TRON look and feel"

Not sure I like the gameplay much either, from the few hours I put into it so far. It's about as far from a pick up and play experience as you can get. I'm practically spending as much time looking through the help screens and fiddling with menus as I am playing. They just shouldn't have made TRON a firstperson shooter. The original movie didn't even have guns. I like the new fully 3D Light Cycles game in this though - featuring different arenas, lots of exciting adjustable camera angles, nice look and feel makes it the ultimate version of light cycles. At least that part lives up to the original arcade games.

roushimsx · Post by **roushimsx** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:24 am

Never played it on Xbox, but I played the unholy shit out of it on PC.

Monolith has a knack for releasing badass first person shooters, and it's surprising that two of their best were licensed games (AvP2 and Tron 2.0). Let's pretend Contract JACK never happened, btw.

PROTIP: When you get the claw, abuse the shit out of it. Coolest weapon in the game, in my opinion. It's a little slow to drain the bosses, but holy fuck is it a fun weapon.

I pretty much outgrew Tron when I hit my teens, but Tron 2.0 compelled me to go out and pick up the DVD any-damn-way. Best FPS of 2003.

Oh, and I heard they nerfed the soundtrack in the Xbox version or some such

The PC version's soundtrack owned but it wasn't possible to rip it because of the way the Jupiter engine handles the dynamic audio. No One Lives Forever 2 had the same problem

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:17 am

Oh, and I heard they nerfed the soundtrack in the Xbox version or some such The PC version's soundtrack owned but it wasn't possible to rip it because of the way the Jupiter engine handles the dynamic audio. No One Lives Forever 2 had the same problem

In what way? The SFX and soundtrack seem faithful enough to the movie, and I haven't noticed any problems in quality. I know they stuck in music by a band called Breaking Benjamin somewhere (not bad, pretty generic alt-rock), but haven't come across them in the main game so that's not too big a deal.

Not sure I like the gameplay much either, from the few hours I put into it so far. It's about as far from a pick up and play experience as you can get. I'm practically spending as much time looking through the help screens and fiddling with menus as I am playing.

Bear with it, it does improve. The above were my thoughts exacty, but it does pick up dramatically after the first few hours, although it's still not what I'd call an FPS as such.