I just bought Tron 2.0 and I am amazed, I was stuned, I was shocked, This is how it amazed me.
GRAPHICS
The graphics are amazing, The worlds they render are amazing rendered, and there's an extra, There is a TRON glow effect that sets it apart, It may render other games obsolete, The visual effects are amazing, from the disc to the lasers, They all look amazing. and the player models look amazing, Jet looks good, He has decent modeling from his suit to his head, His suit looks good and recreates the movie well. all the other charaters look decently good and well modeled as well. The facial animations on the charaters work well and move as good, and also the animations are perfected, The throwing of the disc and animations of the enemies are done perfectly and recreate the movie well.
STORY
The story takes place 20 years after the original Tron, Jet, Alan's son, is a game designer in a company, When he was recieving a call, his father was kidnapped, when he goes to the ditizing room to talk to Ma3a to where his father is, She then get's threatened by the infection and ditizies Jet so he can save the infection, soon after the TCP/IP's mistood Jet as the main source for the infection, So he has to save the world even if he had fight agianst the TCP/IP's, but there are 2 major plotholes that confuses me. Jet could of ran away from the laser instad of telling Ma3a to stop it. Which confuses me, The laser can only go up to a cirtin point, and stop. Then the laser will do nothing. This is what I didn't understand. But in the Ma3a Processing Deck, At the end when the reformat is comming, It deletes mercury, What I don't know why didn't she go to the portal when the reformat wall was comming close, The reformat wall could destroy the portal, and the infection and keep her alive, It also confuses me, But I'll make an acception for both of them, It doesn't bother me that much.
GAMEPLAY
The gameplay is your typical run-of-the-mill first person shooter with platforming elements. But in the mix is RPG elements, But in a easy to access way, You have subroutines that you can install by dragging it into empty slots. There are 3 types of subroutines, Combat, Ulitiliy and Defence, and the 3 stages, Alpha, Beta, and Gold, the Alpha ones take up 3 blocks, Beta takes up 2 blocks and gold takes up 1 block. The 3 types of stages increases with each stage you earn in a subroutine. the subroutines you recieve in the begining is alpha, as you progress through the game, new subroutines with diffrent stages become available. also included is a skills system, You collect build nodes that increase your build points to higher levels, You can upgrade your Health, Energy, Weapon_Effency, Transfer_Rate, and more, These skills upgrade makes the game faster and more fluid. you can also collect emails that unfolds the backstory of the plot and help files that can help you in your greatest need, You also have permissions which give you access to specific objects and doors, You can find permissions in specific enemies and permission bins, in permission bins you can also find subroutines, emails and permissions, It requires a specific amount of energy is required to transfer the object which makes it stragetic, and also you can also find duplicates in there that are new or just the same, It makes it more managable. Which is good.
MULTIPLAYER
The multiplayer is wide and massive there are 3 modes of play here, Disc Arena, Light Cycles and Deathmatch, The descriptions of the light cycles, go to the vechicles section. I'll tell you about the disc arena and deathmatch modes, The disc arena mode is where you throw discs at your opponent, there is a challenge though, You have to thow your disc weapon at your opponent while doging his, but you have to jump from platform to platform not getting hit, But you have to watch out as if your opponent hits a cirtin ring area, It dissapears and you have to widen your jumping skills and doging skills to win the point, if you get all 3 points you win, There are diffrent vairities of enviorments where the laws of objects switch definition. It makes diffrent strageties a must. and the Deathmatch mode is your average deathmatch mode from your ordinary FPS, you have 100 health and energy at the start, You must get the most kills in a match, But some of your weapons use energy, and you must use your energy managably. There are energy ports nearby, But you must spend your time avoiding weapons while using the port so skill is required here to win here.
WEAPONS & ITEMS
The weapons in this game are varied in power, speed and damage, The game classifies the weapon into 4 groups, Disc, Rod, Mesh and, Primative, These groups classify which weapon's skill is used, The weapons are stored in subroutines which can be activated, There's a sniper riffle, a blaster, PRod that can be used to stun enemies, A ball that is used as a grenade, and your basic disc that you can throw and retract, You can also block attacks with the disc, There is also a disc that can damage armor drasticly with one blow, a Sequencer that can lauch mulible disc, A ball launcher that can launch a powerful blast, There's more, But I haven't goten far into the game to tell you about the weapons, There are also cirtin subroutines that can be useful. Like a virus scan that can find infection and also fix it or a profiler that can show you the programs name, health and permissions, but there's also armor that can be useful, Their's base dampening which is boots, and there's Submask that is used as head armor. their is the complete set, I don't know the objects names, but they make you look like Alan from TRON!!!, That's just a statement, You look the same. But you have other attack increasing subroutines that can make your disc, rod, primative, and mesh weapons more powerful, and there's a subroutine that can make your disc block a powerful blast if you had the timing right. There's more, But I didn't play far enough to find out what the other objects are.
MAPS
The maps in this game are perfectly made and recreate the film perfectly, The areas in this game is greatly detailed and makes the computer world look better, The worlds are open ended and massive in size, The enemies are in the right places and rezzing stations are everywhere making for such a challenge, and the puzzles on the maps are simple but mindboggoling challanging as you have to time your jumps to make the next platform, There are a lot of places to cover as the enemies are hard here.
MUSIC
The music here is made of techno/electrica style here, This music blends a new age into the TRON universe, There is also a bit of classical blended in here. there are diffrent musical numbers here, all of them blend the style of the TRON universe with the new age of techno music. It get's my vote, Even the main menu music is good, It's a mix of cores with techno and electrica. It's just that good.
SOUNDS
The sounds in this game are primarily ripped off from the TRON movie, but seems to add in some new sounds in the mix that blend into the game, It makes you seem your in TRON. The new sounds are composed with both equipment, objects and synphizisers which blend into high-quality sounds that surpasses everyones limits. There is also top-notch quality voice acting that is perfect in every way, The crew is specialy chosen and well spoken, they add a special voice effect which makes it like TRON, they digitize specific voices, Which makes it worthwhile to the TRON movie. The voices outside of the virtural world are perfectly spoken and read, every speach is pitch perfect. No flaws whatsoever.
VECHICLES
There are drivable vechicles in the game, But are only accessable by the grid, These vechicles are called light cycles, The description for light cycles is that you ride a light cycle that draws a beam on the back. If you hit that beam, You die, There are powerups that can break or even speed up your bike, there are cirtin areas that can make your vechicle go faster or slower. The green areas make your vechicle go faster, While the red areas make your vechicle go slower, Use of these areas and powerups will result of you winning. Diffrent Strageties are needed if you want to defeat harder enemies. Got It, Good. Now the light cycle you ride has good handeling and speed, You can win the competition by blocking them and blowing them up. You also get the Super Light Cycle which is faster but handeling is also as good. You can speed through them and make their mark all over the road. So those are the vechicles in a nutshell.
FINAL VERDICT
The game is a sucessor to the TRON universe that surpasses the movie in every way possible, It's a first person shooter with RPG elements and Light Cycles, these games combined makes for a game of the year condender that is sure to win, However 2003 is over and many stores don't carry it. So good luck finding it. And also If you install it, Remember to play in the multiplayer section.
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