Over the course of Evolution, Tron city deteriorates from a pleasant place to a downright slum, setting the stage for the bleakness of the Legacy film. Whiteside had a hard time discussing too many details of the games without spoiling anything but I was able to glean some information about the plot. Well, duh, anyone who’s seen the original film lets out a cheer when the Grid goes from red to blue after the demise of the MCP. The viruses seem to all have yellow circuitry, and Whiteside made sure to tell us that color is very important to the universe of Tron. The whole idea of a virus is anathema to Flynn’s Grid because it exists separate from the internet, so it’s a mystery as to how a virus would infect it at all. In Evolution you are sent by the security program Tron to investigate the appearance of viruses in the system. The main character in Tron: Evolution is called Anon, which is short for anonymous, and his look is very non-descript because the designers wanted the players to be able to customize his look and feel like it was their story.
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The screens and details provided for Tron: Evolution certainly don’t feel like it’s a cheap movie tie-in. “It was clear that a game was going to come with the film but we were very conscious of the fact that we didn’t want to make a ‘movie’ game,” Whiteside continued.
It’s not just about the films, there’s so many other ways of using storytelling to bring Tron to new audiences. “It’s part of Disney’s big transmedia play that they are trying to do with Tron.
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“We decided to do something a little bit different with the Evolution series in that we actually wanted to tell events that happen across the Grid between 19,” Chris Whiteside, the Design Director at Propaganda games.
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The big AAA game coming out for Xbox 360 and PS3 on December 7th is called Tron: Evolution and it tells a three act story of a utopia on the Grid falling into disarray from 1990 to the year 2000. The really interesting part is that each piece tells a different story: the comic series, Betrayal dramatizes events soon after the original film and deals with Flynn’s split responsibilities, while the cartoonish Wii title Tron: Evolution Battle Grids continues into the late 80s with its focus on competitive play. Rather than glossing over all of that history, and simply licensing a crappy movie tie-in videogame, Disney decided to make the videogames and comics to fill in the gaps of the Tron timeline.
Tron Legacy takes place in the present day, and a lot has happened in the 28 years since the original. Like many of you, I loved the original Tron film from 1982 and was super excited to hear that a sequel was being made starring Jeff Bridges as an older Kevin Flynn. Disney is dabbling in transmedia for Tron with comic books, and different videogame titles filling in the story of Flynn’s Grid.
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