Tron
Friday, September 26, 2003
Activating I-O grid...
Tron 2.0 Review
Gameplay: 9/10
Graphics: 10/10
Sound: 10/10
Replayablity: 6/10
Opinion: 10/10
Overall: 9.0/10 (Outstanding)
From the creators of No One Lives Forever 1 and 2...
You may experience nausea while playing the game... but admire the graphics!
If you are wondering why there is no heated fighting shots, it is because I'm unable to hit the 'Print Screen' key on time during one.
Gameplay: 9
You play as Jet. A computer programmer whose father is another computer programmer who created an access portal to the digital world. But a hostile takeover by 'FCon', sparked alot of events, mostly bad for the company you work for. You then is digitalised into the system, where you must find what caused the computer to actually zap you in, and to get out of the computer, in one piece.
That's all the infomation you're getting out from me about the story. Now for the main game...
Once inside the digital world, you'll have alot of repeated ( and yet difficult ) enemies to battle. The weapons are rendered to that really fantasy 'Disney' style of weapons. You'll get a Disc, a Rod, a Ball and a mesh primitive. They can be configured to change by installing 'subroutines' into your system, giving you the ablity to wield different weapons like a shotgun to a grenade launcher, all rendered and animated beautifully. While trying to find a way out of the digital world, you would travel to alot of differnt places. From your personal computer to a Palm Pilot and doing exciting stuff like escaping a disk format or breaching a firewall.
There are typically, 4 types of enemies. ICPs (Intrusion Countermeasure Programs like Virus Scan), The corrupted (Viruses), the gready resource-hogs (really stupid programs that hunger for all the memory your computer have) and hackers (hackers). All of them are really nice and have their own set of advantages. Like ICPs, when alerted, will install a full body armor, or hackers, bending the rules of digital physics to move really fast.
The levels are also done well, with e-mails, permissions keys and subroutines stored and scattered everywhere. Though the jumping puzzles are fun, it is really annoying to fall to your death every time you do try one. Tron 2.0 also have the 'Tron' movie signature. The lightcycles. Think, deadly 'Snake'. Objective is to outsmart your opponents into hitting into your cycle's tail and not to hit theirs. Sadly, the computer gains the upperhand, with nanosecond reaction that's obviously faster than mere human players.
But don't dispair. The multiplayer is fairly good. You can play a lightcycle deathmatch with a friend, or play a game of deadly 'Pong' with a bunch of them. All this is very satifying for this extremely challenging game.
Graphics: 10
The glow effect is the main aspect of eye candy you would be seeing. Blue glow, green glow, yellow glow, red glow, there is so many glowing lines... Characters are also modeled outstandingly during cutsences.
With so much amazing effects and renders in this game, plus the dyamamic lighting, I can't explain how this game really look like. Just take a look at the screenshots.
Sound: 10
Plenty of techno/weird music here. Voice acting is excellent, with the occasional joke/funny line the programs sometime say.
Replayablity: 6
Though multiplayer is suppose to keep the game alive, Tron requires a very very good connection if you want to enjoy the game fully. You can play the story mode again and try to find all those level up diamonds and achieve a version 10.0.0. But that would be crazy.
Reviewer's Opinion: 10
This game rocks. Not as scary as half-life and yet as beautiful as No One Lives Forever 2, with the Disney's Tron Movie glow. Don't think that this game with the Disney stamp on it is uncool, the content is damn cool, just have a good graphic card to enjoy the whole experience.
Tron 2.0 Review
Gameplay: 9/10
Graphics: 10/10
Sound: 10/10
Replayablity: 6/10
Opinion: 10/10
Overall: 9.0/10 (Outstanding)
From the creators of No One Lives Forever 1 and 2...
You may experience nausea while playing the game... but admire the graphics!
If you are wondering why there is no heated fighting shots, it is because I'm unable to hit the 'Print Screen' key on time during one.
Gameplay: 9
You play as Jet. A computer programmer whose father is another computer programmer who created an access portal to the digital world. But a hostile takeover by 'FCon', sparked alot of events, mostly bad for the company you work for. You then is digitalised into the system, where you must find what caused the computer to actually zap you in, and to get out of the computer, in one piece.
That's all the infomation you're getting out from me about the story. Now for the main game...
Once inside the digital world, you'll have alot of repeated ( and yet difficult ) enemies to battle. The weapons are rendered to that really fantasy 'Disney' style of weapons. You'll get a Disc, a Rod, a Ball and a mesh primitive. They can be configured to change by installing 'subroutines' into your system, giving you the ablity to wield different weapons like a shotgun to a grenade launcher, all rendered and animated beautifully. While trying to find a way out of the digital world, you would travel to alot of differnt places. From your personal computer to a Palm Pilot and doing exciting stuff like escaping a disk format or breaching a firewall.
There are typically, 4 types of enemies. ICPs (Intrusion Countermeasure Programs like Virus Scan), The corrupted (Viruses), the gready resource-hogs (really stupid programs that hunger for all the memory your computer have) and hackers (hackers). All of them are really nice and have their own set of advantages. Like ICPs, when alerted, will install a full body armor, or hackers, bending the rules of digital physics to move really fast.
The levels are also done well, with e-mails, permissions keys and subroutines stored and scattered everywhere. Though the jumping puzzles are fun, it is really annoying to fall to your death every time you do try one. Tron 2.0 also have the 'Tron' movie signature. The lightcycles. Think, deadly 'Snake'. Objective is to outsmart your opponents into hitting into your cycle's tail and not to hit theirs. Sadly, the computer gains the upperhand, with nanosecond reaction that's obviously faster than mere human players.
But don't dispair. The multiplayer is fairly good. You can play a lightcycle deathmatch with a friend, or play a game of deadly 'Pong' with a bunch of them. All this is very satifying for this extremely challenging game.
Graphics: 10
The glow effect is the main aspect of eye candy you would be seeing. Blue glow, green glow, yellow glow, red glow, there is so many glowing lines... Characters are also modeled outstandingly during cutsences.
With so much amazing effects and renders in this game, plus the dyamamic lighting, I can't explain how this game really look like. Just take a look at the screenshots.
Sound: 10
Plenty of techno/weird music here. Voice acting is excellent, with the occasional joke/funny line the programs sometime say.
Replayablity: 6
Though multiplayer is suppose to keep the game alive, Tron requires a very very good connection if you want to enjoy the game fully. You can play the story mode again and try to find all those level up diamonds and achieve a version 10.0.0. But that would be crazy.
Reviewer's Opinion: 10
This game rocks. Not as scary as half-life and yet as beautiful as No One Lives Forever 2, with the Disney's Tron Movie glow. Don't think that this game with the Disney stamp on it is uncool, the content is damn cool, just have a good graphic card to enjoy the whole experience.
