Developer : Disney Interactive
Release date : November 26, 2010
Synopsis :
Tron: Evolution is a third-person action-adventure video game, the tie-in for the film Tron: Legacy. It was developed by Propaganda Games and published by Disney Interactive. It was announced at the Spike Video Game Awards and was released for Microsoft’s Windows and Xbox 360 platforms, and Sony’s PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable platforms. It was released on November 25, 2010, in Australia, November 26, 2010, in Europe, and December 7, 2010, in North America and Asia. It uses engines from Epic Game’s Unreal, and BioWare’s Aurora.
As of October 2019, the PC version of the game can no longer be installed or played due to the game’s use of SecuROM DRM, which stopped providing authentication servers after Disney revoked their service subscription.
Tron: Evolution serves as a precursor to the movie Tron: Legacy and sequel to both the graphic novel Tron: Betrayal and the Nintendo Wii and DS versions, Tron: Evolution – Battle Grids. It is designed to be an integral part of the Tron story, featuring certain characters and settings from both films. Tron: Evolution explains the events that led to Kevin Flynn’s imprisonment inside the Grid, as well as telling how the Grid evolved through the years. The player controls a system monitor program named “Anon” (short for anonymous) – a security program owned by Flynn to investigate a conspiracy in the world of Tron.
The game starts with video footage of Kevin Flynn who is discussing the existence of ISOs (Isomorphic Algorithms), a group of programs with a measure of free will that has emerged spontaneously on the Grid, and are disliked by the Basic programs. Jalen, one of the leaders of the ISOs, recently died and Flynn suspects the murder was organized by Clu, a second version of the original program from the first film. Flynn has got Anon to try to control the system.
Radia, leader of the ISOs, is at a formal ceremony to make her a System Administrator alongside Clu. Tron asks Anon to guard the ceremony but finds a suspicious female ISO, Quorra, who tries to talk her way past the guards, prompting Anon to follow her. The ceremony is violently disrupted by the virus program, Abraxas, but Anon intervenes and battles him, damaging Abraxas’ identity disc and forcing the virus to flee. Clu disparages the “flaws” of the new ISOs, while Tron suggests Flynn leave the Grid for his own safety.
During his battle against Abraxas-generated corruption, Anon sees Flynn and Tron being ambushed and killed by Clu and his guards; Anon discovers Quorra, who also saw the killings. They visit Zuse at a nightclub that serves as a haven for ISOs. Zuse gives them Solar-Sailer access codes and suggests they warn Radia since her word will be believed by the ISOs. As they leave the nightclub, the elevator slope connecting it, and the ground is shattered, leaving those in the nightclub stranded. As they travel to the solar sailer station, they see several groups of ISOs being terrorized; they realize that Clu has declared war on the ISOs.
Quorra and Anon are secretly present to observe a meeting between Clu and Radia. Clu tells Radia that Anon killed Flynn requesting that Radia gather the ISOs together for “protection”. After Clu leaves, Quorra and Anon tell the truth to Radia. Radia responds that Flynn was not killed, but was rescued by an ISO called Gibson. Anon rescues Gibson from the Game Grid and they head for the colony where Flynn was taken, but they discover the colony has been infected by Abraxas and that Flynn has vanished. Anon and Gibson flee, but Abraxas catches up with them and infects and presumably possesses Gibson. Anon is then forced to fight the now infected Gibson and successfully defeats him, who thanks Anon as he is derezzed. After many battles, Anon finds Quorra again and she explains that Clu has recently attacked and destroyed all ISOs on the Grid.
Quorra and Anon once again secretly observe a meeting between Clu and Radia. Abraxas arrives, and Radia realizes that he was once Jalen and that Clu had corrupted him to create the pretext for the destruction of the ISOs. Abraxas kills Radia, making Quorra the last ISO. No longer wanting to wait, Quorra goes after Clu, leaving Anon to fight against Abraxas, who he manages to defeat by leading him under falling debris. Anon later meets with Flynn, who had modified his disc with the Abraxas shards he found and reveals that Quorra has stowed away on Clu’s warship. Anon finds a way aboard, and Clu throws Quorra down to the deck. When the monstrous virus reappears, Anon and Abraxas have a final showdown, with Abraxas using the ships’ energy cores to multiply his power, which Anon fights back by damaging and overloading them. When Abraxas enters the central core, Clu yells that he will overload the core and the ship. Anon destroys the core with Abraxas in it, finally de-rezzing him. Clu runs away while Anon goes to Quorra and picks her up. As the ship is exploding, Anon dives off the side of the ship and grabs onto a Recognizer. The blast from the explosion malfunctions and damages the cruiser, causing it to fall. Anon throws Quorra out of the way as the ships’ remains fall towards them following Flynn’s last command to protect her. The ship then crushes Anon.
Quorra wakes up and sees Anon fading under the Recognizer and watches him Derez in front of her. Alone in the middle of the wasteland, she collapses, expecting to run out of energy and Derez. Just when she thinks all hope is lost she opens her eyes and sees the creator of the Grid, Flynn, standing above her and he recharges her energy. Clu survives to rule an ISO-free Grid, and Flynn and Quorra are outcasts, with the latter reflecting on how both Flynn and Anon saved her.
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