Huge kudos to Disney who just updated the Steam build of the fourteen year old FPS Tron 2.0 [official site doesn't even exist any more] to work properly on Win 10!
Posts tagged “Tron 2.0”
Feature: Sometimes watching isn't enough.
I had twin criteria for this. The first was 'is it a decent game?' and the second 'does it meaningfully evoke the spirit, themes or characters of the movie in addition to having Quite Good Guns And Graphics?' The second saw quite a few games which would otherwise qualify ruled out. This year's Mad Max, for instance, was an agreeable murder-romp but it's much harder…
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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Daft Punk's Tron: Legacy soundtrack has taken up residency on my speakers once again, so my mind naturally turns to the other time a series with far more potential than actual achievement reached great heights. 2003's Tron 2.0 was a mixed bag for…
Do you know what I did? You do? Oh. So yeah, I wrote about Tron 2.0 for Eurogamer. With the new movie coming out soon, it seemed a good time to go back to a game that is oddly similar to the plot of the next film. I wrote words. Some of them were: My lasting memories were of three things: 1) The pink worm…
As everyone clever knows, 2003's Tron 2.0 was an imperfect shooter stuffed to the neon gills with thoughtful design - both thematically and visually. As current shooters hunt for ever-more shades of brown, it is only proper to hang our heads and think of where we might be today had Tron 2.0 taken off. We'll never know. But we can at least play free Unreal…
This piece was first published in PC Gamer UK's Long Play series. Disney occasionally hit the high notes of imagination. The Tron movie was one of those: a neon-and-black vision of the innards of cyberspace, long before such concepts became bread and butter to our science fiction diet. Making what purported to be a sequel to that famed film as a videogame was a brave…