Discs of Tron (Xbox 360)

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CNET editors' rating: 2.0 stars Mediocre
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Discs of Tron is a prettied-up port of an '80s arcade game that's barely even recommendable to die-hard Tron fans.

Specifications: ESRB: Everyone; Genre: Action; Number of players: 1-2 Players See full specs

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Reviewed by: Don Francis
Reviewed on: 02/14/2008
Released on: 02/13/2008

When Disney released the motion picture Tron in 1982, the special effects seamlessly transported audiences from the real world into the digital world of computers. Originally released the year after the movie, Discs of Tron focused on the ever-so-brief data-disk deathmatches found in the movie. Discs of Tron did one thing, but it did it very well for 1983. You are the movie's titular character facing off against Sark, the master control program's digitally embodied majordomo.

If you make it to the later levels, you can actually throw your deadly discs upward and downward.

Unfortunately, this Xbox Live Arcade port of a 25-year-old game doesn't hold up as well as the movie. You jump from platform to curiously suspended platform, hurling deadly data disks at your opponent. Some illuminated lines on the sides of the screen show which vertical plane upon which your discs fly. Until you get to the multilevels section of the single-player game (a feat requiring both practice and skill), you will never make use of the ascending or descending throwing functions. While this setting never occurs in the movie, it is central to the gameplay.

When Sark defeats you, he will invoke one-liners from the movie that come across as garbled nonsense most times. But those obfuscated ribbings represent the majority of the audio you will hear in the game. Some light trappings from the movie's audio show up, but in barely recognizable forms.

The graphics update offers interesting background depth. The computer cityscape, complete with pulsating input/output towers, gives life to what was formerly the inside of a black box. Despite the fact that the character sprites are lightly filtered on enhanced settings, they look identical to the original version. It is unlikely you will want to return to the original graphics because they look horribly dated and only accentuate the predominantly 2D gameplay.

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