Tron 2.0 Multiplayer Demo Out Now
ydkcookie writes "According to Voodoo Extreme, the PC multiplayer demo of Tron 2.0 has been released! This 160mb demo features light-cycle racing and a first-person multiplayer shooter style level." There's also a BitTorrent link available, courtesy GameTab, and also a download link at GamersHell for the demo of this Monolith-developed title we previewed a few weeks back.
There's just no better way to test multiplayer code than to release a demo to the public and see what bugs crop up. The fact that the demo helps give the game publicity is really just a nice side effect -- they're probably primarily interested in working the kinks out of the multiplayer system.
Just tried it with Keyboard\Mouse and the controls suck. It's too difficult to keep the accelerator down and turn multiple times in close quarters. Tried it with a Joystick and you lose the ability to change the perspective and activate power ups. I went into the Control config screen and they don't even let you re-map stuff to different keys. For Joystick you only get to re-map the "strafe left/right" to the x or y axis. Total crap. I hope they change this before the retail release in August.
I just thought I'd drop this by: I made a series of 4 Tron cartoons in my webcomic, Overcaffeinated. These are the links:
Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4
I've been expecting this game for a while now. =)
Overcaffeinated. Angry geeks.