The Lightcycle Battles are based on the original Tron game, with the bikes and trails and objective to survive and kill off the other players. The game's one redeeming quality, though, is where it really shines: The Lightcycle Arena. The races were fun to a point but quickly became boring as they were always fairly easy to win, regardless of CPU difficulty settings. The 2 different Lightcycle games had the most natural control schemes of all the games. A bird's eye camera, coupled with pointing the Wii-mote to aim your gun, directional buttons to move your tank, and A, B, and the - (minus) key for various weapons and shield equates to a complicated control scheme being performed by only 1 hand.ĤRunner Battles were a nice change of pace from the other games, as they involved hilly terrains and gladiator-style shootouts with weapons, powerups, and shields. The battle tanks were amusing but the controls were awkward. 4Runner racing was frustrating and unproductive, as it's nearly impossible to drive in a straight line, (these things are nearly constantly sliding all over the track) let alone do so while avoiding machine guns and obstacles. Grid Scoops is actually fairly similar to how playing Hot Shots Golf works: a power bar that moves up and down and has to be activated within a certain range, and twisting the Wii-mote to apply spin. The disc wars consist of running and jumping in circles while mashing the "throw disc" button - no motion activated controls here, and auto-targeting determines which enemy your disc flies towards. The game limits you to 10 profiles, as each profile chooses their costume color, no two profiles can have the same color, and there are only 10 colors to choose from to begin with.Īs for the actual game-play, at least 3 of the 7 different games aren't even worth playing more than once: Disc Wars and Grid Scoops (that's what I call it not sure what the real name is) were the worst two, and were absolutely useless. The game allows for player profile creation, but customizations are fairly limited, and the players themselves are very poorly designed (All characters' faces are essentially squares). The 7 games that make up this Wii title are: Light cycle racing, Light cycle battles, Disc wars, Tank battles, 4-wheeler racing (called a 4Runner in-game), 4-wheeler battles, and a strange mix between the disc wars and playing catch with a glowing ball and scoops. The game actually only consists of 7 different grid games, and a single player "storyline" (if you can even call it that) that is nothing more than a coverup to force the player to go through a few rounds of each game. Of all the Tron games that came out with the release of the Tron: Legacy movie, the Wii title definitely got the short stick.
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