Tron 2.0

[John Reynolds]

Anyone playing it? If so, list your system specs and game settings and how well you feel it performs. Best Buy has it for $40 USD this week, which is tempting, but I keep hearing it runs like crap on ATI boards and, as a TWIMTPB game, it's missing effects on anything other than NV hardware.

And, last, say whether the gameplay itself sucks or not.

[tEd]

Anyone playing it? If so, list your system specs and game settings and how well you feel it performs. Best Buy has it for $40 USD this week, which is tempting, but I keep hearing it runs like crap on ATI boards and, as a TWIMTPB game, it's missing effects on anything other than NV hardware.

And, last, say whether the gameplay itself sucks or not.

it runs absolutely great on my r9700pro (1280*960,6xAA,16AF) all in game settings at max , vsync on triple buffered (fps mostly 40-85 , sometimes it drops to around 30)

about the missing effects i dunno , i don't have a fx.

edit:
in the readme they recommend a geforce fx but there is no word about any missing effects on other cards.

[Reverend]

Does it have a benchmark feature?

[MistaPi]

Anyone playing it? If so, list your system specs and game settings and how well you feel it performs. Best Buy has it for $40 USD this week, which is tempting, but I keep hearing it runs like crap on ATI boards and, as a TWIMTPB game, it's missing effects on anything other than NV hardware.

I have the following specs:

Asus A7N8x Deluxe
AthlonXP 2400+
512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM
Connect3D Radeon9700Pro

The performance is very good. Im running 1280x1024, 4xFSAA and 16xAF (bilinear) with everything at max. I'm pretty sure that it's not missing any effects on ATI hardware.

And, last, say whether the gameplay itself sucks or not.

There are alot mixed feelings about this game, but I like it very much, so I would say go for it.

Does it have a benchmark feature?

Not that I know of.

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

A7N8X, XP2600 512 megs ram. Very fast and smooth at 1024x768 4xAA 16xAF, except for one large level that one time seemed to get periodoc pauses.

Gameplay is standard FPS, though movement was a little slow. Nice RPG elements with you choosing which weapons and skills to upgrade. Most weapons become redundant as the main disc gets enhanced, and you don't want to spend energy on other weapons when you need it for accessing other things.
You will either love or hate the lightcycle sequences, which are not very FPS. Simplest is just to stay out of trouble and the opponents ususally crash themselves eventually

Main thing about the game is it is very stylish, at least with all the settings cranked up full. It captures the music, sound and graphical syle of TRON very well. It's quite atmospheric and and tells a good story. Bear in mind that I've always like Lithtech games since Shogo:MAD and NOLF1/2 because they do tell a very good single player story, usually with lots of style and humour. It makes a big change from the standard FPS.

It also suffers from being a little on the short side. Not as bad as U2, but a decent FPS player can have this finished in a couple of long days, so I reckon there's probably about 15-20 hours in the single player.

EDIT: There are also a few jumping puzzles, some of them timed. If you hated the jumping puzzles in Jedi Knight 2, you'll hate these. There are less of them than in JK2, but I think the ones in Tron 2.0 are harder.

[deviantchild]

fyi the missing fx on anything other than a geForce was said to be a special glow/halo effect [eminating from the cracks in the characters' armour?] - afaicr this feature was developed using Cg
i may be wrong tho', but it's something like that anyway

[MistaPi]

The glow effect is definitely there. I can turn it off and on in the setup meny and there's a huge difference.

[Malo]

maybe ppl with fx and 9x00 should post comparitive screenshots of the effect

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

On my 9700 Pro, the difference between medium and high graphic setting gives everything a glow. At medium, characters and walls, outlines, etc are coloured, but they look "flat". At high setting, they look more like neon tubes with a brighter, glow/halo effect around these objects. Is this what you are talking about? If so, it's not limited to Nvidia cards.

[tEd]

On my 9700 Pro, the difference between medium and high graphic setting gives everything a glow. At medium, characters and walls, outlines, etc are coloured, but they look "flat". At high setting, they look more like neon tubes with a brighter, glow/halo effect around these objects. Is this what you are talking about? If so, it's not limited to Nvidia cards.

the glow effect is definitely not unique to gefx cards because there was even a paper from gdc03 where both nvidia and ati showed how it was done in tron2.0 and even dx8 cards are capable of it although they need more passes

http://www.ati.com/developer/gdc/D3DTutorial4_SpecialEffects.pdf

[deviantchild]

no idea then
i was just going by what on of the devs said in an interview a while back

[vrecan]

it was PR rubbish like usual. Their isn't any effect in the game that is specific to the fx series I have seen them running side by side. BTW I loved this game beat it in two days though :( , then again I have a lot of free time!!!@

[kyleb]

beat it today, very good game. they thanked nvida for the glow effect in the credits but it worked nice on my 9700 as well.

[99 to Life]

I just bought this game 3 days ago from Fry's in Burbank and I must say that it's really impressive. The first 5 mins of the game, where it's the real world weren't, but as soon as you travel into the computers it's a whole different story.