the Neutron film is dis T's big holiday
movie spectacular which means that it
gets a movie tie-in game to go with it
but in the season of quality titles Tron
is far from a blockbuster game though it
does have some saving graces
in a stream things are getting intense
Tron evolution bridges the gap between
the original 1982 film and the upcoming
sequel you play as a system monitor who
is trying to stop Clues rise to power
the story is interesting in that it
expands on the universe and answers what
happened to Flynn also that hot chick
from house does all her own voice work
if only she looked even half as hot as
she does in real life the world looks
pretty dope at first though the constant
blue neon lights get tiresome after a
few levels eventually the game does mix
it up a little but one level of green
and one level of orange are hardly a
varied aesthetic the animations are
stiff most of the time preventing the
more spectacular moves from looking as
good as they should
Tron features 3d support for those of
you getting fancy new TVs this year the
framerate drop is really noticeable with
it on and the 3d effects do little to
change the game only making the
characters seem like they're floating
off the actual world and the cutscenes
aren't even in 3d at all
the majority of Tron is a third-person
action game focused heavily on
platforming and combat there's a lot of
parkour style acrobatics throughout with
your character running on walls and
leaping over computer terminals the
majority of the levels basically boil
down to find the only glowing thing in
the dark grayscale world and run at it
the combat is a mix between melee
attacks and light disclose there are
some cool combos you can pull off and
some special moves but the combat
devolves into button mashing playing on
hard is the only way the game forces you
to develop a strategy but even then most
of the time you're just hitting the
attack button as fast as possible in
addition to the combat and wall running
you can also jump into the light cycle
and light tank these sequences are
sprinkled throughout the game the light
cycles are cool though I wish there was
more than just escape sequences that
limit you to a walled-in track the light
take is worthless though it's clunky
slow and boring multiplayer is where the
game finally feels like Tron you can
compete in some deathmatch style grid
games and even light cycle based events
the 3d light cycle tournaments are fun
and challenging though the free-for-alls
get really hectic the mats that are too
small for the cycles are far less
exciting really more like the
button-mashing single-player mode
Terron evolution is barely a Tron game
it's a repetitive cyberpunk Prince of
Persia all the cool things you'd expect
in a Tron game are restricted to the
limited multiplayer modes if you want to
find out what happens between the two
films then you at least get a bit of a
story here and if the developers keep
expanding the multiplayer with DLC like
they're already doing and this game
could be worth a purchase eventually for
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