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Buggiest Game I have Ever Purchased

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: August 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit that this review is not based upon gameplay, because I have been unable to play the game at all.

I am not a novice gamer. I have a brand new computer that runs an Athlon 3000, with nvidia fx5900 ultra and soundblaster 5.1. THIS GAME CRASHES CONSTANTLY. I can play for 5 minutes at a time, and then it's over. My whole system crashes, and my sound settings have to be reconfigured (not just for the game, I am talking about my whole computer). I have placed 4 support calls to Buena Vista Interactive, and no one there knows what to do, though none of them seem surprised at my problem.

I have updated all of my drivers--audio, video, and motherboard, and this game still will not function. Until a patch comes out that fixes all of these issues....do not buy this game!

Beware!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: August 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Beware! This game requires a very specific type of videocard and will not run without it! If you don't have a GEFORCE 2 class card then you've just bought yourself a [$] paperweight. (Or, if you opt to buy the card, you've just paid [$] for a videogame--buy a xbox, gamecube, or ps2 instead and save the trouble.)

THIS GAME ISNT WORTH IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is full of bugs that BVI wont fix and refuses to even look at. no one plays it any more because of all the bugs and BVI's non support for the game. i say spend the 20 bucks on a better game.

Issue with windows operating system

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: November 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am still trying to resolve game-crash issues with Buena Vista Games. I have well over 70 games and occasionally have had to deal with these kinds
of issues. Not often, because I have a high-end system, but this particular game has been a time consuming headache to even get to run.
(something I still haven't been able to do!)Companies that code these kinds of games that take many hours of trouble shooting to even play should at least provide a higher level of customer support. I will never
purchase another game from Buena Vista Games, this was my first, and last!
On the plus side Amazon took my return and promptly sent me a new one
without charging me, your organization rates a "10" for customer satisfaction! Thanks much! Paul K. Guzman

Off to a good start... then crashes

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game rather late: I have given up on keeping ahead with computer upgrades, I just want to settle for games that run well on my current hardware. Tron 2.0 does and a few years down the road, it was very cheap to buy.

This game got off to a great start, it was great fun submerging in the world of Tron, a truly different experience from your regular shooter. Unfortunately, when I was finally introduced to the light cycles (only the second level), the game kept crashing hard on my Windows XP system. It took the entire computer with it and did a hard reboot (my system is configured NOT to do that ever). I am running the latest Tron patch, it doesn't seem to make any difference. I tried and tried but after hard reboots 5 times in a row (all in the light cycles practise arena), I was forced to give up and stop playing this game.

A real shame... I would have loved to see what is beyond this level, but I simply can't reach it.

You'd better have the hardware and resources for this one

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 22
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is really a high-powered, resource using, grapical eye-candy "shooter".

It is really LUDICROUS that this game requires a lot of PC Power and resources - at least a P3700mhz, (p4 RECOMMENDED), more than 256 megs of ram (384 & UP is BEST), a good chunk of hard drive space (maybe around 1 gig or TWO), and MOST IMPORTANTLY, A GRAPHICS CARD WITH (T&L-Transform and Lighting - NVIDIA) or CHARISMA ENGINE POWERED card from ATI. If you have a fast enough PC, you're going to have to spend about $50 or more for a graphics card to play this thing, if you don't have the required hardware to do so.

So, it may cost you $60 - $100 and up just to play this game.
Consider upgrading your card not just for this thing, but only if you use your pc for DVD viewing and other graphics-intensive tasks.

Just another FPS...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This review is based upon the SP demo of the game.

I played both the lightcycle and First Person Shooter (FPS) levels provided in the demo. The lightcycle game looks interesting, although people without fast reflexes will be hard-pressed on anything but the easiest level of difficulty. The first FPS level, however, didn't strike me as that different from any of the other games of this genre that I've played. Almost immediately I was confronted with a jumping puzzle (land on the right block or fall to your death), and a get-the-right-keys-to-open-doors puzzle that basically just involved opening every "code box" to get the right keys to move on. The weapons were fairly common; the disk is a new twist at first but isn't really THAT different from the weapons you've seen before.

I'd recommend this to FPS enthusiasts, or people who are fans of Tron and haven't gotten over-exposed to the Quakes ad infinitum out there.

Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The original TRON arcade game from the early 80's is still my favorite arcade game of all time. I played it all the time and, if I ever see it anywhere (which is rarely) I would continue to play it.

So, I was really looking forward to this game.

The good news is the game looks good. The graphics and sound are terrific. The story is reasonably involving. The battle scenes with the discs are fun.

But unfortunately, the game play throws it all off.

Too much time is spent running around, looking through emails, getting passcodes, getting the permissions to open up the box that has the emails and passcodes in it, etc. Mainly just busy work, not really entertaining.

Plus, there is a whole RPG like, leveling up sort of thing, where you have to customize all your abilities that is also just busy work.

The game does have a few glitches as well. I reached a point, midway through the game where I had to find the cheat code to skip a level as there was a glitch that wouldn't allow me to do something in the game play.

And finally, the light cycle races. Again, this looks cool, and is a lot of fun for a time. But some of these races are just too long with no midway save points (they are broken into three races and if you fail on the third, you have to start over from race one. I could never beat that third so had to give up the whole game.)

So, for me, the game didn't live up to expectations. But, for what the game is going for (as I write this I see used copies available for under $5) it is probably worth picking up.

Get it for the light cycles

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I admit I was a Tron freak way back when. I remember playing Tron disc games with a frisbee in grade school during recess. I assure anyone reading this review who isn't in their 30s, a movie like Tron really made us kids turned us into religious fanatics. I even have the remastered DVD release that my family finds annoying, for some reason, every time I pop it in to bring back those wonderful memories.

As for the PC game, Monolith did an excellent job in recreating the Tron atmosphere. The light cycle routine itself is phenomenal and works great as a stand alone game which would have blown my socks off even more had this been released in the early 80s. Problem is, the annoyances that are standard in Monolith games, are pretty apparent here. They definitely have a distinct, polished style of their own. But they never quite succeeded in the gameplay department. This is very apparent in Tron as much of your time is spent on jumping puzzles. I am not really one to complain of a jumping puzzle every now and then, but when I am thrown against a series of 50 or so moving platforms that could mean certain death when I don't time my jump just right, I really have to throw in the towel.

There is also too much of a 'find the key (or in Tron's case, a permission) and open the door' element in Tron. It is kind of sad that a game that looks this good, couldn't quite present something that is equally innovating in the gameplay department.

That being said, if you must buy the game, do so for the light cycles. The game itself should only be considered there for a curiosity.

you must be joking

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You know, Tron's not some kind of simulator, so why not cut the fat and just make it a game? The gameplay seems to be more about reading emails, budgeting "subroutines" (jumping higher, etc.), and "disinfecting" yourself than it is about combat. The real action does remind me of the movie, but it feels pretty cheap. It looks good, though.

The game's buggy, too. I might not understand everything about the game, but I'm pretty sure that having my disc (primary weapon) vanish every other time I use it is a glitch, because it magically reappears every time I go to an options screen and back. In the game's defense, that was the most frustrating thing about it. *edit-> I finally restarted the game from the beginning, and this problem went away.

Not a bad game when it works, but not as novel as I expected. If it didn't look and sound like Tron, it would be very forgettable.

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