There are times when Tron: Evolution just feels right. At first, the graphics seem stylistic enough to bear the name of the iconic Disney franchise, and the combat and hyper bike battles retain that same feel you'd want as in the movies themselves (mostly in keeping with the excellent Tron: Legacy sequel released last November, 5/5). Soon enough, though, you'll realise as I did that Evolution is ripe with repetition, recycling environments, combat scenarios and hyper bike courses to the point that you'll wonder just how much effort actually went into making this from Propaganda Games. Time after time, I was surrounded by generic, identical enemies which I could throw my disc weaponry at by pressing X, but my Y attack was just as helpful, saving me a couple of hits that would have felt like a waste of time (not because the game is fast-paced, just that the quicker you get through it the better). The same approach applied to racing on the aforementioned bikes, too: why make it look cool and exciting like you saw in Legacy if there's a far quicker way of making it through the level? Licensed games like Batman: Arkham Asylum, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and even Kung Fu Panda have shown it's cool to gain a sense of how it would be to live the events of the films they are adapted from, so in this day and age there's no excuse for tedious monotony in film tie-ins. The plot, which most Tron fans were getting excited about as it bridges the 20 year gap of the two sci-fi romps, is no winner either, prolonging a story which Jeff Bridges' flashback in Legacy easily told within minutes, and that many of the cast from Legacy are replaced by soulless sound-alikes doesn't help either. All in all, Evolution is a mediocre title through and through, wasting its promising combat and the plat-forming (using the Assassin's Creed/Prince of Persia engine) retreading old ground unsuccessfully. Avoid like the Grid (if you don't get the reference, don't even consider it. If you do, still just rent it!)
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Sunday, 6 February 2011
Tron: Evolution Review (4.5/10)
There are times when Tron: Evolution just feels right. At first, the graphics seem stylistic enough to bear the name of the iconic Disney franchise, and the combat and hyper bike battles retain that same feel you'd want as in the movies themselves (mostly in keeping with the excellent Tron: Legacy sequel released last November, 5/5). Soon enough, though, you'll realise as I did that Evolution is ripe with repetition, recycling environments, combat scenarios and hyper bike courses to the point that you'll wonder just how much effort actually went into making this from Propaganda Games. Time after time, I was surrounded by generic, identical enemies which I could throw my disc weaponry at by pressing X, but my Y attack was just as helpful, saving me a couple of hits that would have felt like a waste of time (not because the game is fast-paced, just that the quicker you get through it the better). The same approach applied to racing on the aforementioned bikes, too: why make it look cool and exciting like you saw in Legacy if there's a far quicker way of making it through the level? Licensed games like Batman: Arkham Asylum, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and even Kung Fu Panda have shown it's cool to gain a sense of how it would be to live the events of the films they are adapted from, so in this day and age there's no excuse for tedious monotony in film tie-ins. The plot, which most Tron fans were getting excited about as it bridges the 20 year gap of the two sci-fi romps, is no winner either, prolonging a story which Jeff Bridges' flashback in Legacy easily told within minutes, and that many of the cast from Legacy are replaced by soulless sound-alikes doesn't help either. All in all, Evolution is a mediocre title through and through, wasting its promising combat and the plat-forming (using the Assassin's Creed/Prince of Persia engine) retreading old ground unsuccessfully. Avoid like the Grid (if you don't get the reference, don't even consider it. If you do, still just rent it!)
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