Tron 2.0 for the GBA - including original Tron arcade game!

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Just saw a blurb over on Good Deal Games that a slightly watered-down version of Tron 2.0 is in the works for the GBA, and it's going to include the first-ever home version of the 1982 Midway Tron arcade game. Oh happy day! I have some worries about how things like the spinner-heavy portions of the game will translate, but...geez, only took 22 years, eh? :D

[AB Positive]

Midway's Tron = joy

Maybe I'll finally have something to play on the GBA now... :D

-AG

[Sniderman]

It will also include Discs of Tron. Yup, BOTH Tron arcade games on your GBA. And, it'll have Tron 2.0, which is just gravy.

[Raccoon Lad]

FYI, the guy who did the emulation for that, sits a few desks away from me.

Damn fine emulation, I must say.

[ManekiNeko]

Emulation? I'm THERE, dude.
So, how's the meat of the game going to be handled? I can't imagine a system like the Game Boy Advance handling a slightly modified first person shooter very well.

JR

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Tron 2.0 is going to wind up sorta like Jedi Power Battles did - isometric 3D, not first-person. The screenshot I've seen looks pretty darn cool though.

[Sniderman]

Emulation? I'm THERE, dude.
So, how's the meat of the game going to be handled? I can't imagine a system like the Game Boy Advance handling a slightly modified first person shooter very well.

JR I believe I saw screenshots someplace that Tron 2.0 is gonna be a 3/4 perspective platformer. But it WILL have first-person shooter elements when combat is entered. I'll see if I can dig up info/screens....

[EDIT] Here's an article on it:
http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/512/512334p1.html

And here's a pic or two:

http://media.ign.com/thumb/823/823190/tron-20-killer-app-200405071040118_thumb.jpg
http://media.ign.com/thumb/823/823189/tron-20-killer-app-200405071040868_thumb.jpg
http://media.ign.com/thumb/823/823187/tron-20-killer-app-200405071040993_thumb.jpg

Ah hell, there's a ton more at the link above. Sic 'em.

[calthaer]

One thing that I don't remember being in the Tron 2.0 PC game are those space-invader-esque transport ships / planes that I see in one of those screenshots. I mean - they do have them, but they're not flying around like that, you just ride a "train" of sorts between areas and have to avoid a search on one. Is this supposed to be a translation of the PC game of the same name? The previews don't seem to make that clear. It looks like it when I see things like the Kernel in the screenshots, but the PC version never let you play as Mercury.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

One thing that I don't remember being in the Tron 2.0 PC game are those space-invader-esque transport ships / planes that I see in one of those screenshots. I mean - they do have them, but they're not flying around like that
Look out! A RECOGNIZER (http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/hizzouse/full-5/cabinet3.jpg)! Thing is, that middle screen shot shows the Recognizers flying around the way they did in the original movie, and so help me that looks like a screen shot right out of Space Paranoids. I am SO going to buy this game. *swoon*

My ONE gripe from reading IGN's article (thanks Tim!) is that Tron and Discs Of Tron will be unlockables. Screw that noise - put 'em on the menu plain as the light of day, I say. I hate having to unlock the game that I actually bought the bloody cartridge to play in the first place (see also Asteroids for the GBC).

[Lady Jaye]

My problem is with the isometric POV. I know it's often used as a 3D substitute on the GBA (see the Tony Hawk series and Jet Grind Radio), and I can't stand it. As much as I love the THPS series on a current console, I can't stand it on the GBA.

Isometric POV just doesn't do it for me.

[SoulBlazer]

I think, PDF, to FINALLY get a home version of Tron it's worth it. :)

I'm not sure how it will handle, but I can play it on my Game Boy Player and use my GC controllers analog sticks -- that should work okay.

Tron 2.0 is a great game. Be interesting to see how they handle it on the GBA. :D

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

For the spinner-specific stuff in Tron and DOT, maybe the aiming will be handled with the left and right shoulder buttons. That would be nice and instinctive.

Keith, am I way way way off in thinking that's how it might be handled?

[Raccoon Lad]

Yup, that's the controll scheme.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

AWESOME!

Okay, I've officially decided that this is going to rock. Even if the arcade ports are only unlockables. :D