No matter how you look at it, movie license games have a nasty history of being some the worst game ever released. But there are a few rare exceptions. Does the new Tron game fall into the former or ladder? Read on and find out.
As always, starting with the story, Tron Evolution takes place between the original movie and the newest film, bridging the gap between both stories. Kevin Flynn is putting his focus into building a new computer system from the inside and has inputted some new systems to make it easier. You play as one of those new system. You play as a system monitor, a cop in other words, and you are put in to assist the lead monitor, or sherriff, Tron. But as you are "on patrol" a virus suddenly appears and begins infecting and killing the other "people". The system admin takes the infection as an excuse to take control of the system. So your are caught in the middle of trying to survive the take over, kill the virus and find out what is happening to the system. Now for a movie based game, this story works. Its simple and establishes enough of itself to still be entertaining, despite the fact that anyone who has seen the newest film will already know what happens.
Tron Evolution is a third person action platformer. I say platformer cause you will spend most of your time running on walls and jumping from point to point as apossed to fighting. Also when I say running on walls, I mean that literally, not just to travel but also in combat. But wall tricks aren't required to fight, but it is encouraged. Tron rewards you with extra damage to your attacks when you fight "fancy". You also get plenty on chances to be fancy as well. In order to recharge your health the player must wall run across a glowing strip of light and that recharges your life. You also jump across glowing barrels in order to recharge your weapon ammo. So a skilled player can easily run across one of these two items and attack on the way down dealing massive damage. Tron also has access to two different vehicles; the famous light cycle, and a tank. Both happening at fixed points within the game. Now the problem with vehicles, particularly the light cycle is the player never gets the chance to do the famous light cycle duels against other enemies. All cycle rides are only for travel from point to point. The same could be said for the tank points, but you get alot more action from the tank cause your shooting your way through various objects and enemies.
Trons sound area is rather impressive. Basicly the entire score of the new film is included within Evolution, even Daft Punk's new single "Derezzed" makes an appearence within Evolution, and during a very cool part if I might add. Voice acting is mixed. The main player is a faceless, voiceless figure so nothing there. And only two actors take up their characters roles. Olivia Wilde takes her role as Quorra, while Bruce Boxleitner plays his part as Tron. The Flynn character is a sound alike and does ok, so I won't complain.
Now the single players is rather short. A skilled player can go through this in about 6-8 hours give or take. But there is a multiplayer mode to play, and all your stats your earn in single player carry over to multiplayer and vise versa. Also multiplayer is where the player gets to do the famous duels on light cycles. Now the problem is, thats what you end up doing 90% of the time. Now you can get off the cycle and attack on foot, but you'll mostly get run over by a biker. Tanks can be used, but they have to be unlocked first. Also there is no match making ability of any kind. So almost every match is won by who ever has the highest stats. All in all, multiplayer isn't very well thought out.
Tron Evolution has its points, and fans of the series will want to play this for the story points. But once they are done, the multiplayer is too shallow to keep them playing. For a movie license game, Tron Evolution is not bad but could have been alot better. Only the fans will want to play this, and its a rental at most. Tron Evolution earns a final score of 5 out of 10, just plain average.
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