Like with Spec Ops: the Line, the Tron: Evolution reveal during the Spike Video Game Awards left us several questions. Is it an MMO or a basic action game? How much will vehicles factor in? Is that bad dude in the teaser really hurling a neon-yellow Frisbee with bad intentions? Why is the Tron license being used again?
The recent press release answered some of these questions and dished out a couple of interesting details. But don’t expect too much from it — this game appears to be very much still under wraps.
Publisher Disney Interactive calls Tron: Evolution a basic action/adventure game and hints that those neon-bordered speeder bikes are set to have feature roles.
“The game features an epic adventure across a massive digital world filled with high-mobility disc-based combat and advanced light cycles,” the press release reads.
The release also spends a good deal of time explaining where the game fits in the Tron universe, which has seen a single Hollywood release, a lone videogame release, and will see another upcoming film release. Evolution’s fiction is set before this upcoming film, dubbed “Tron: Legacy.” Like with Enter The Matrix, Disney says Evolution provides “insight” into the new flick.
“As an integrated entertainment experience, the film will reference elements of the game’s story. Fans will want to play the game to learn more about the Tron mythology seen in the film, but each entertainment experience will stand on its own,” the press release reads.
Along those lines, “Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski will “advise” on the game and feature film star Olivia Wilde will have an active role in the game, perhaps providing that bridge between the two bits of Tron media that Disney Interactive seeks.
We wish there was more to all of this, especially in the area of gameplay, but it looks as though we’ll have to wait a bit. We’re willing to do so, especially since we still have no idea what the hell that yellow Frisbee and virus talk was all about. Oh, right. It’s a virus disc — wait, what the hell does a virus disc do?
Tron: Evolution is being developed by Propaganda Games. It’s set to release before Tron: Legacy hits theatres in 2010 for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Published: Dec 15, 2009 01:00 pm