Buena Vista Games is bringing back the sci-fi cult classic “TRON” August 26 as an interactive adventure for Windows-based computers.
“TRON 2.0” is an immersive first-person action game that includes elements of racing and role-playing game genres.
The game’s story takes place roughly 20 years after the events from the film, where the talented young programmer Jet Bradley is zapped into a computer mainframe to search for his missing father, Alan, creator of the TRON program. In this high-tech world, Jet finds an evil entity determined to infect Earth’s computer systems by using his father’s technology.
At various points in the story, or as stand-alone multiplayer or solo game modes, players can climb into the sleek light cycles introduced in the “TRON” and race in the Game Grid. As in the film, players must force opposing light cyclists to crash into walls or their light cycle’s ever-increasing snake like tail. Syd Mead, renowned conceptual artist who worked on the original “TRON” films, designed the updated light cycles in the game.
Multiplayer options include challenging up to 16 players across the Internet in disc combat or light cycle races. For a free taste, you can download a 160-megabyte demonstration of the game at www.tron20.net.
Source cnn.com.
