Tron: Legacy
TRON: Legacy is a mobile game released as a tie in with the movie of the
same name. Unlike Disney’s free top-down arcade-like game TRON, this game
features 3D rendered graphics. The game has two game modes Light Cycle racing
and shooting game with a Recognizer.
The Light Cycles mode is either a race between other Light Cycles, or a time
trial. In both cases, the player has to control the bike through a racing
track usually of three laps. The Light Cycles leave behind a crashable Light
Ribbon, however it has a very limited length. Powerups are found through the
track and includes turbo, cloaking, shield breaking and more. The Light Cycle
can crash in the wall boundaries of the track, or in other players’ Light
Ribbons. When this happens the player derezzes, but re-spawns immediately just
losing momentum and a brief amount of time. In time trial, three other times
are displayed and the goal is to beat these scores. In the race mode, the goal
is to finish the game before the opponents.
The Recognizer mode is a point match where the player is on board a
Recognizer. The player doesn’t control the movement of the vessel, but only
the aiming of the plasma weapon. The goal is to destroy as many tanks, turrets
and light cycles as possible. Except for the light cycles, the enemies will
fire back at the player. To survive the player needs to destroy the enemies
before they hit the Recognizer Module, or find health power-ups among the way.
To prevent players from just shooting rapidly and randomly the gun will
overheat if used to often, making it unusable for a short time. Hitting
several enemies in a row without missing also grants bonus multiplier points.
The goal is to finish a level with a better score than three pre-displayed
scores.
In all modes a third place or better is required to proceed to the next level.
The player collects tournament points for completing a level. 1st place gives
three points, 2nd grants two, and 3rd place equals 1 point. A certain number
of points is needed to advance to the next “act” which means new pool of
levels. The points add up, meaning for example two 2nd places on the same
level grants four points. Losing a racing mode with just one other Light Cycle
will still grant two points and unlock the next level.
The game is controlled by tilting, leaning and shaking the device. This is
used for steering and jumping in Light Cycle mode, and aiming the weapon on
Recognizer mode. Tapping and holding the touch screen is needed to accelerate
and brake in Light Cycle mode, and shooting in Recognizer mode.
The original release of the game had multiplayer support for Light Cycles, but
the servers were shut down and the feature were removed from the game late in
2011.
Tron: Legacy