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With the reveal of the Tron Legacy trailer recently I re-discovered my love of the original Tron.

Re-bought the movie for a bargain price of £3.50 (gone up £3 in the last month for some reason? Perhaps increased popularity) and picked up the novel for 1p!

The movie was every bit as good as I remembered and then some! I was only 2 when this came out in the cinema but it has had a strong impact on me ever since the first time I watched it.

The novel was actually based on the screenplay and so it holds very little content that is not in the movie but I still enjoyed it. Parts are fleshed out with more internal narration, and the start/end are slightly different but its the same story essentially. Still for 1p you cant really go wrong.

Naturally the next step in this mini Tron obsession was to hunt down the video game (surprise surprise) and give that a whirl.

I kind of remember this releasing… mainly because there was talk of a Tron sequel around that time. From what I can tell the plot was to be the same as the game, based around the original Tron character Alan Bradley’s son, Jet. When the movie took a dirt nap the game was released for the PC anyway. It was also updated and ported to the Xbox but I definitely do not remember that.

Anyway.. I managed to get hold of the game and installed it recently thinking it would be a pretty standard tie-in but worth a play nonetheless. I’m glad to say I was wrong and the game is actually very much worth a look for a Tron fan.

From the neon glowing scenery, to the throwing disks and light cycles, everything about this game is Tron with a capital T. The game is an FPS (for the main story anyway) and from what I have played so far, works very well as a standalone shooter even for people who never heard of Tron. I’m about half way through (thanks to Batman and Monster Hunter) so I cant give a full review but I like what I have seen so far of the main game.

The area of the game that’s given me the most fun though is the set of mini-games based on the Light Cycle match from the movie (during the main game there is a nice nod to this scene that has you jumping a light cycle out of the game grid). This mode of play has been so much fun for me, even though its basically a multiplayer version of Snake. Perhaps the fanboy in me is blinded by the Tron references.. but its Light Cycles FFS! Who wouldn’t get a kick out of it!

Long story short, if you have a few quid spare and fancy trying a Tron styled shooter, you wont go far wrong with Tron 2.0, or its Xbox port, Tron 2.0: Killer App.