TRON: Evolution

by Disney Interactive Studios

• High Mobility Combat - Battle the enemies of the TRON world with your light disc using a dynamic blend of Parkour and martial arts movement on your heroic mission across the Grid.
• Vehicular Action - Fast paced exciting light cycle racing and combat in the digital TRON world.
• Bridge the Legacy - TRON: Evolution is the prequel story to the film TRON: Legacy and unlocks mysteries in the rich TRON mythology.
• Online/Multiplayer - TRON: Evolution has an innovative online experience featuring persistent character progression.
• Voiceover Cast - Voiceover by actress Olivia Wilde as Quorra, Bruce Boxleitner as Tron, and others to follow

Product Details

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• ASIN: B0030MOXA8
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: December 7, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,988 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Overview TRON: Evolution is an immersive 3rd person action game that pulls players onto the digital grid of TRON. Explore TRON's cities using free running mobility, navigate among unique rebel factions, and fight an epic battle against a dictator's seemingly unstoppable army as the powerful System Monitor. Seamlessly connect from single player story mode into 10 person multiplayer battles with martial arts inspired light disc combat and thrilling light cycle chases in the prequel story to the highly anticipated film, TRON: Legacy. Key Features High Mobility Combat - Battle the enemies of the TRON world with your light disc using a dynamic blend of free running and martial arts movement on your heroic mission across the Grid. Vehicular Action - Fast paced exciting light cycle racing and light disc combat on the digital grid. Bridge the Legacy - TRON: Evolution is the prequel story to the film TRON: Legacy and unlocks mysteries in the rich TRON mythology. Online/Multiplayer - TRON: Evolution has an innovative online experience featuring 10 person multiplayer, persistent character progression, and light disc and light cycle battles. Voiceover Cast - Voiceover by actress Olivia Wilde as Quorra and Bruce Boxleitner as Tron TRON Story Timeline The TRON: Evolution video games are the key to unlocking the TRON mythology in between the original 1982 film and the 2010 blockbuster film TRON: Legacy. Every game tells a different story of the digital grid and offers a completely unique gameplay experience designed specifically for each platform.

About Disney Interactive Studios Disney Interactive Studios, part of Disney Interactive Media Group, is the interactive entertainment affiliate of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). Disney Interactive Studios self publishes and distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games and interactive entertainment worldwide. The company also licenses properties and works directly with other interactive game publishers to bring products for all ages to market. Disney Interactive Studios is based in Glendale, California, and has internal development studios around the world. For more information, log on to http://www.disneyinteractivestudios.com.

Product Description

TRON: Evolution is an immersive third person action-adventure game that pulls the player into the unique digital world of TRON. Gamers explore TRON's cities using the free running phenomenon Parkour, navigate among unique rebel factions, and fight an epic battle against a dictator's seemingly unstoppable army in the prequel story to the highly anticipated film, TRON: Legacy.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Tron's Legacy Evolves (Campain review only) December 9, 2010

By Shane

Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

Released on December 7th, 2010 Tron: Evolution became available to the general public ahead of the franchise's release of their second film, Tron: Legacy and is available on the following platforms, PC, Xbox 360, Wii, PSP, Playstation 3 and Nintendo DS. Although the game does bridge several platforms this review will focus on the PC version available for Windows 7, Vista and XP compatible machines.

Tron: Evolution combines action mostly found in Martial Arts genres and widely successful racing games. With intricate button combinations the player battles computer engineered viruses bent on their destruction. As the game progresses you will be challenged in several different forms in order to navigate intricately laid out maps by using abilities such as running on walls, jumping from platform to platform, leaping over anti-gravity structures and avoiding deadly obstacles. After mastering the ability to navigate the map's obstacles you will be confronted by the evil viruses. Using your disc you will need to defeat them and the more you beat the more powerful you will become. Using the XP gained by your battles you will have the chance to upgrade your disc and abilities. With the control over vehicles the game takes an even more thrilling step towards greatness. Tanks and motorcycles will have your heart beating with excitement.

The gameplay is pretty fun but at times can be a little repetitive. The majority of your time will be spent on running and jumping various obstacles. The story is well laid out, explaining how and why you need to defeat the enemies and the characters sent to fight or aid you are well done as well. The voice overs are quite good and reflect the actors emotions and personalities from the films. Olivia Wilde's character is very good but a little more chubby from the actual actress.

The Graphics are very clean and bright but can be a little sparse at times. The games camera could have been better, on occasion it will go through walls leaving the player without the ability to see where they are going but it is controllable. I suggest using a controller(xbox or PS3) as keyboard controls can be difficult and clunky. There is little in the way of in-game sounds and no background music to entertain.

Overall the game is enjoyable and at the selling price it proves to be worth the money spent. A good game to play once but I doubt I will play it all the way through again. Multi-player is available but not included within this review.

ALL FEEDBACK IS APPRECIATED. THANKS AND GOOD GAMING.

23 of 29 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Game - but I am IRRITATED :) December 8, 2010

By Safari Hood

Amazon Verified Purchase

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

I pre-ordered the game, and as always, Amazon.com had it to me on release day. Awesome!

I am a fan of TRON, and am very much looking forward to the new movie, TRON : LEGACY
TRON : EVOLUTION definitely sparked my interest, and Amazon.com had a great price on it.

Installed, and up and running. My PC is well beyond the minimum requirements, so game play was very fluid.
I selected the best graphics resolution allowable within the game, and it looked GREAT.

I played in the single player mode for a while - I am still getting used to the game and its controls.
It will take a while, it's a lot different than most of the games that I am used to. So far so good, though!

I recommend this game for anyone who is a fan of TRON.
I believe this game will compliment the original movie, and the new one.

Now, this is where I mention MY complaints. That's why four stars instead of five.

Complaint #1
You have to sign up for a Windows Live account to be able to use the multiplayer option, at least, on the PC version.
While I agree, there is no additional cost, I bought a legitimate copy of the game. (Amazon.com verified purchase!)
Buying a legitimate copy of the game should be the ONLY requirement of using the multiplayer option.

Complaint #2
My second complaint is a technical issue. You may, or may not care. If you don't understand it, it won't matter much, either.
I'm still mentioning it, because it is important TO ME.

I was glad to see that the game supports multiple language options, however, this is where the developer really could have done better.

The game has support for English, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. Personally, I only read, write, and speak English, so that was the ONLY language support that I needed.

When I installed the game, it installed ALL of the languages. For me, support for German, French, Italian, and Spanish were COMPLETELY unnecessary.

The support files for those four extra languages consumed (roughly) 1.15 gigabytes of hard drive space.
On a one terabyte drive, the wasted space only adds up to around 0.12% of total capacity, but that's more than zero.

It would have taken very little effort on the part of the developer to have the installation process copy only the support files for the language(s) selected by the user.

With an 'English only installation', the extra languages' support files are spread among 4,864 files, and that adds 4,864 entries to Windows' index.
A larger index can slow down searches, and overall PC performance. It also makes fixing potential disasters that much more work.

36 of 48 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars How do you make a grown man cry? Make him play this game! December 20, 2010

By J. Givens

Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   

I'm 37 years old. I'm an avid gamer and have been since the Atari 2600 days. With that said, I'm a PC gamer. I don't play console games anymore. I was weaned off of them when I got my first PC years ago. With that said, I love "Tron" the movie. It's part of my childhood, like Star Wars. I spent countless hours in arcades playing the old Tron arcade game - not to mention the Atari Tron games, which I still own. From the moment I heard about the new film and saw the trailer, I couldn't wait to see it. And for the most part, I wasn't disappointed. It's hard to follow-up to such a cult movie, but the film, I thought, was pretty amazing. But that's beside the point...

Being a fan of the movies and previous games, I had to try out this new Tron game for the PC. It almost brought me to tears. No, not tears of joy over my lost childhood memories of light cycles and flying discs and of Tron and the world in which he lives. No, I was crying over having played such a frustrating game!

As others have pointed out here, this game is clearly a console port. And, man, you can feel it if you are a PC gamer, used to using a mouse and keyboard, which allow for far superior control to a game pad - sorry console gamers, but it's true! I don't know how console gamers put up with such horrible controls and camera angles. The very nature of this game requires an extremely fine degree of control of the in-game character. Let me explain (and bring up another related complaint!). The guy(s) who designed the levels of this game is a sadist! :) (I say that in fun!!!) Apparently - and I missed this part in the film - the people who inhabit Tron's world don't use normal walkways, doors, stairs, and such to move around. In their highly advanced digital society, they jump around like monkeys swinging from trees - in this case inexplicably out-of-place hand holds - jumping from platform to platform. I used to suffer from motion sickness from games, and this one nearly brought back the experience. The jumping on and over everything, running up walls, and constantly shifting camera angle, which is made worse by the 3rd person perspective, almost made me spew on my keyboard.

The fine control is utterly necessary because the entire game consists of jump puzzle after jump puzzle. I finished the game in a few days of heavy playing, but most of that time was spent reloading the game from the automatic save points - which is yet another lame carry over from consoles! Seriously, I must have died 1000 times! A lot of this has to do with the awful design of the game. For some reason, to gain energy, you have to jump over objects in the game like consoles and lights (???). (I'm going to have to try this in the real world by vaulting over my couch and kitchen table and see if I get an energy boost!) When you jump over these objects, you are launched into the air... and sometimes right off the ledge of a platform to plummet to your death. Good times! :) Many of the deaths from jump puzzles are completely unavoidable. The perspective prevents you from seeing where to jump next. Fate forbid that it be as simple as following a path from point A to point B. You'll run along walls and grab hand holds not clearly seeing the next point until you fall of yet another wall to your death. Again...good times! If this is what console gamers call fun, I pity you. Wack-a-mole would provide more entertainment and less stress!

The other problem I had is that they game is extremely monotonous. Between the jump puzzles, you simply go room to room fighting enemies with your disc. Occasionally, you will experience what I believe to be the most fun aspects of the entire game: riding the light cycles and tanks. Outside of this, the game is boring. It's too much of the same thing over and over again ad nauseum.

To be fair, the game is beautiful. The characters are animated well, and they look very realistic. The game ties in well with the film, too, which I liked. It also introduces you to some of the characters from the film, which was very interesting to me. The music is nice, but it would have been nice to have more of the music from the film. The cut scenes throughout the game are very good, and load times are not a problem. They are very seamless with the in-game action and do not detract from the game play.

I finished the game. I'll never play it again. The jump puzzles and console-esque game play are a huge turnoff for me. It's just illogical and odd - and not in line with the movie at all - that you should have to traverse the game world by jumping around like squirrel on a live power line. The monotony is another killer as far as reply value goes. Once you get through it, you'll not want to go back. Overall, the game is worth a play, but after that, it'll be relegated to your pile of forgotten games. If you're a Tron fan, I suggest you go see the movie instead. It's a much better experience than playing this game - especially the PC port.

Cheers,
J.A.G.