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Discs of Tron

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5.8 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Disney Interactive Studios

Developer: Backbone Charlottetown

Genre(s): Action

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: February 13, 2008

Summary

[Xbox Live Arcade] Discs of Tron, a follow-up 1983 arcade game, enables players to fight Sark, the defender of Master Control Program, in one-on-one battles taking place in three-dimensional futuristic arenas. Players must move between platforms while throwing energy-charged discs at Sark and deflecting oncoming discs to avoid being "derezzed." The game includes the original version as well as an enhanced version with new graphics and audio features. Through Xbox LIVE Arcade, players can also compete in both games against another player in four online modes. [Disney Interactive Studios]

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What The Critics Said

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Official Xbox Magazine

Old arcade pros will miss the coin-op's grippy spinner knob, but the right analog stick approximates it well; finesse players can still win games with superior targeting skill. [July 2007, p.79]

X360 Magazine UK

Discs of Tron does hold quite a bit of enjoyment, especially of the latter stages. [Issue#31, p.117]

Console Monster

Fun to pick up and play Easy to learn.

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Gaming Nexus

Too bad the game is not worth playing. Discs of Tron could have been an exciting action game, but the shallow gameplay keeps this game from ever being as entertaining as the movie.

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MS Xbox World

Discs of Tron on Xbox 360 is a good representation of how sloppy some of the Xbox Live Arcade games are at the moment.

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Eurogamer

Despite the lacking port, the game is one of the more enjoyable super-vintage titles to appear on XBLA and it's a testament to the core design that its fun hasn't dulled too dramatically in the past twenty-five years.

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GameSpot

Discs of Tron is a prettied-up port of an '80s arcade game that's barely even recommendable to die-hard Tron fans.

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Games Radar (in-house)

An interesting blast from the past, but much like the visuals of the original film, it really doesn’t hold up over time.

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Totally360

A minor distraction perhaps but classic is reserved for titles that carry fond memories and are still as satisfying to play as they ever were, and Discs of Tron just doesn’t fit that description at all.

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Xbox World 360 Magazine UK

Thoroughly unambitious. [June 2008, p.96]

Game Chronicles

An utterly useless waste of 800 Microsoft Points.

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IGN

It's a shame that a classic could be given such poor treatment with meager graphics, bad sound, and inaccurate controls. The one new element, the online multiplayer, runs poorly and is no fun to play. All-in-all, one of the worst XBLA ports to date.

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Team Xbox

Poor graphics, crippled controls, and a multiplayer option that feels like it’s been tacked on like an afterthought on a Post-It all add up to make this game one blast from the past that really should have stayed where it came from.

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GameZone

The game is 800 Microsoft points, and it is really something that they should just give away. Bad graphics, controls, sound and multiplayer means a bad game and it should not have been.

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Official Xbox Magazine UK

Without even a two-player mode, this won't last you ten minutes. [Aug 2007, p.103]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

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