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Tron 2.0 Previews Disc-overed 22

Posted by simoniker from the bzoooom-zuga-zugwang dept.
Aron Schatz writes "You've probably all seen the original movie that the game is based on, but, judging by this PC preview from Gamespy, Tron 2.0 is a completely new universe." Fortunately, there are still light cycles and pseudo-futuristic glow effects everywhere, as IGN.com also noted, and these can be better appreciated in the most recently released trailer movie (Fileplanet link, Fileshack link, BitTorrent link courtesy Gametab.)
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  • Let me see that Tron! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Baron_911 ( 664953 ) <{baron} {at} {insecure.net}> on Wednesday May 07, 2003 @08:34AM (#5900410) Homepage Journal
    Looks pretty sharp. Light Cycles = Cool if they go REALLY fast! I like the concept of the levels being computer components.
    It would be neato if one level was YOUR computer (some weirdo game did something like this a while ago... virus or something), and had stuff floating around from you harddrive. (Fighting off your own pr0n movies... mwahahahaha)

    -baron
    • You might be interested in psDoom :
      http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
    • Yeah, it was called "Virus", it was a strategy type game with a Descent style engien (floating, 6-degrees of freedom). It made its levels out of the file structure of your computer's hard drive. Quite unique... too bad they totally screwed it up...

      Still, the idea is interesting enough, since potentially the game will change every time you install a new program or clean up your temp directories... maybe someone can make a game based on it that doesn't suck.
      =Smidge=
    • Operation: Inner Space [sdispace.com] did that. the game took place on your hard drive, clearing out your computer of "infected files" with a spaceship and a shitload of imaginative weapons. you collected money and bought upgrades for your ship. you could also customize the hell out of it, to including making a new one entirely from scratch.

      it came out in 1995 or so, so the graphics are pretty dated, but the game's great amounts of fun for when you just want to fly around and blast things.
  • Looks like I'll need a new Video card for sure.

  • cool sounds (Score:3, Interesting)

    by grammar nazi ( 197303 ) on Wednesday May 07, 2003 @08:49AM (#5900527) Journal
    that sucks that light cycles won't be multi-player... but I'd rather have no multi-player light cycles than shitty laggy multi-player light cycles.

    I hope the towering flying things make the same cool sound as they did in the movie.

  • Hmmm.... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Pxtl ( 151020 ) on Wednesday May 07, 2003 @09:05AM (#5900649) Homepage
    Not based on the Tron movies - lack of multiplayer.... boy, just gets better and better. Sounds like Monolith is doing their regular quality of gaming. Crud. Sounds like I'll be sticking to GLTron for my Tron-action.

  • come on now (Score:3, Funny)

    by cloud_of_bastards ( 671601 ) on Wednesday May 07, 2003 @09:34AM (#5900878)
    Deviating from the original and keeping all the neon...just what we need, an interactive Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.
  • ...every time I see something about Tron anywhere, I always get the urge to build myself a homemade glowing suit, put it on, construct a glowing frisbee, and go disc golfing while riding my shiny blue bike from hole to hole. Wouldn't disc golfing with Tron gear be frickin' sweet? I can only imagine all of the odd looks I'd get.

    • I hear you, bro. Back when Tron came out, my friends and I were stupid middle schoolers. We got the brilliant idea to play "tron light cycles" with our bikes. Yeah, that's right, we'd ride crazy and try to cut each other off. Well, sure enough, I succeeded in "killing" one of my friends which caused him to go flying over the handlebars of his bike and crashing to the ground. We had to carry him home he was so banged up. His mom was not very happy when she saw us walk in carrying him and when we told h

  • I guess just about anything is fair game for making an FPS out of (judging by that later screenshot - I actually had *no* idea of what kind of game this was strictly by the review text). I'd kind of hoped that some of our older classics would be immune from the rampant intellectual property `upgrading` that our 3D obsessed gaming generation seems to enjoy paying for.

    Next thing you know, we'll have a Q*Bert themed MMORPG. :)

  • Assists required - Additional weapons? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Wingchild ( 212447 ) <brian.kern@gmail.com> on Wednesday May 07, 2003 @09:43AM (#5900947)
    Help me out on this one, people. :)

    --
    Another primitive is the "rod" -- a short-range melee weapon favored by light cycle racers, which can be upgraded to a short-range energy cannon (think "shotgun") called the "suffusion" or a sniper rifle called the "LOL".
    --

    Other Weapons for Tron 2.0:

    "SPAM" - access a rogue SMTP server and bury attacking enemies in email.

    "ASL" - drive enemies crazy by repeatedly demanding that they verify their identity.
    Note: This is likely to make any neutral characters attack you.

    "kthxbye" - dismiss enemies with a wave of the hand and a supercilious manner.

    Any others? ;)
  • Finally, a game both my father and I can enjoy. We are both huge Tron fans.

    Wait, no multiplayer?! Aaaarrrg!!! :-(
  • I could care less, but someone would have to pay me. The effort of becoming fanatically apathetic would be too much, otherwise.

  • Lame cycle racing.. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by sudog ( 101964 ) on Wednesday May 07, 2003 @04:26PM (#5905298) Homepage
    ..the bikes change direction without banking and *after* the bike's already passed the entirety of the corner of the turn. In other words, when the bike changes direction, it pivots on the extreme rear of its rear wheel.

    Looks terrible. I mean I know the movie had them turning 90 degree angles all over the place and doing crazy tricks and so on, but when the camera would follow them, it would bank and smooth out the motion a little. It wasn't quite so jarring an effect in the movie.
  • Did anyone see the movie "Tron?"

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