History VideoGame / TronTwoPointOh

* TheElevatorFromIpanema: ENCOM's break room plays a smooth jazz rendition of ''[=TRON=]'s'' theme.

* LudicrousGibs: The [[Film/TronLegacy "canonical"]] [[WesternAnimation/TronUprising sequels]] have dying programs collapse into a shower of little cubes. On this one, enemies explode into piles of flying body parts before de-rez.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: {{Exaggerated}} and [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the ''TRON'' universe. The color and pattern of a Program's circuits indicate their loyalties and their function, with each faction having their own color ([[BlueIsHeroic Blue for Encom]], red for ICP forces, purple for F-Con, SicklyGreenGlow for Thorne and his viral army). You have to take note of ''both'' to keep from accidentally killing civilians.

* ThemeTuneCameo: The Music/WendyCarlos ''Tron'' theme only appears once in the game.

** The Legacy Code is located on an old mainframe, but [=Ma3a=] is in danger. [[spoiler: Jet overclocks the old mainframe to upload her out of trouble. But RealityEnsues - overclocking a computer, particularly an old one, is a fast way to destroy it.]]

The game was released to minimal advertising and press coverage, but still managed enough success for Slave Labor Graphics to release a six-part graphic novel series called ''Tron: Ghost in the Machine'' that took place six months after the game's events. Jet is shown to be traumatized from his experience in cyberspace, having nightmares and having trouble discerning those nightmares from reality. There was also a sequel for the Game Boy Advance called ''Tron 2.0 Killer App'' (a title which was also used for the Xbox port of the PC game) where Tron was revived from archival storage and teamed up with Mercury to thwart a viral attack on Encom.

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* BenevolentAI: Like in the movie {{Film/Tron}}, the Programs are mostly benign or even friendly and happy to help. Even the [=ICP=] units trying to hunt Jet down aren't malicious, just mistaken and the Z-Lots are insane and under the control of a corrupted User. [=Ma3a=], a full-blown AI, is Jet's ally and MissionControl through the game.
* BifurcatedWeapon: The Sequencer allows Jet to split his Disc into up to ''four'' parts (at the highest upgrade) and fling them at enemies ala [[{{Film/TronLegacy}} Rinzler]].

* GameMod: The Killer App Mod from [=LDSO=] (Living Dead System Operators, a ''dedicated'' fan collective) patches a lot of the bugs found in initial release and restores several Xbox only weapons to multiplayer (and yes, they maintain their own server for it on a limited basis). The same collective also came out with "User Error," a fan-done expansion pack that [[PatchworkFic attempts to tie the game into the]] ''{{Film/TronLegacy}}'' [[PatchworkFic timeline]].

* InternalDeconstruction: The implications of humans being {{Physical God}}s in {{cyberspace}} are glossed over in the ''{{Film/Tron}}'' [[{{Film/TronLegacy}} films]] (and ExpandedUniverse), which feature [[AIIsACrapshoot malelovent Programs]] [[RobotsEnslavingRobots enslaving other Programs]] and planning to turn the same cruelty onto the human world. To switch the storyline to where the Programs are (for the most part) well-intentioned, and for ''humans'' to exploit virutal godhood in the ''worst'' way possible certainly hits one of the central premises of the universe and inverts the source of conflict shown in the movies, but doesn't do much past that. The spin-off comics take it all the way to DeconstructorFleet.

* RecursiveCanon: The ''{{VideoGame/TRON}}'' arcade game from the 1980s appears; the explanation is that Kevin Flynn created a game based on his adventures in the film, which was later published by Encom. The same explanation was recycled for ''Film/TronLegacy''.

** Jet is playing the original ''{{VideoGame/TRON}}'' [[GameWithinAGame Arcade game]] in the opening.

Not to mention the leads in each canon are the sons of the original ''TRON'''s leads, who meet a female program who's been influenced or sent to help [[spoiler: by the lead's father]]. And the fake-out with the living virus and apparent BigBad merely being an UnwittingPawn to the truly evil people who set the whole thing up has shades of ''VideoGame/TronEvolution''. The dialogue between Alan and Jet also sounds suspiciously like some of the Tron and Beck dialogue in ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' Let's just say it probably wouldn't be a surprise if the ''Legacy'' writers played a few rounds of this.

** This is without even mentioning that there is no autosave. No joke, you have to rely on the quicksave function a LOT. Yes, this is lampshaded by one character, but he refers to it as "autosaving". Further inexcusable considering that one of Monolith's previous FPS titles, ''[[Franchise/AlienVsPredator Aliens vs. Predator 2]]'' actually DID use an autosave function.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin / DemonOfHumanOrigin: True to the franchise, but {{Downplayed}} with the Bradleys as Jet doesn't ''want'' that status, [[spoiler: Alan isn't in long enough to figure out the User idea, and Lora-[=Ma3a=] is part AI and throwing this trope about like a pinball.]] Thorne is the Demon type who is completely DrunkWithPower once he gets uploaded and the Datawraith mercenaries are trying to {{Invoke}} the trope to terrorize the Programs into giving up their Users' secrets to these new "gods."

* NoOSHACompliance: Every level has bottomless pits. None of them have railings.

* GridInventory: Jet has a varying amount of space available in each level to load [[PowersAsPrograms power-up programs]]. Alpha-grade programs take up four times as much space as the gold versions of the same power-up -- and if all you have are one-slot inventory spaces available, you're in trouble.

* TheElevatorFromIpanema: ENCOM's break room plays a smooth jazz rendition of Tron's theme.

* RPGElements: Before they were widely popular. The player can gather points throughout the game that can be used to "upgrade" Jet's basic characteristics (life meter, energy meter, etc.).

* LogicBomb: A prissy archive guard bars Jet from going into the Historical Archive on the old mainframe. Jet quickly asks him what the 7th even prime number is, causing him to spazz out.

** Notably, while you will be fighting them for the majority of the game, the red ICP programs are ''not'' evil. They're security, and their doing their job of preventing unauthorized access.

* HostageSpiritLink: Killing any ally or civilian Program or failing to protect [[spoiler: [=Ma3a=] and Alan]] leads to an instant NonstandardGameOver.

* AGodIAmNot: Between Thorne and the Wraiths, and the fact it almost got him killed by [[KnightTemplar The Kernel]], Jet is reluctant at best about embracing his [[PhysicalGod User]] status (it's played up a lot more in the spin-off comic).

* CutsceneIncompetence: Early on, Jet managed to plow through several waves of security units. But when a cutscene takes him directly to the Kernel's office, he surrenders without a fight

* IndecisiveDeconstruction / InternalDeconstruction: Of the "partial" and likely the "unintentional" varieties. The implications of humans being {{Physical God}}s in {{cyberspace}} are glossed over in the ''{{Film/Tron}}'' [[{{Film/TronLegacy}} films]] (and ExpandedUniverse), which feature [[AIIsACrapshoot malelovent Programs]] [[RobotsEnslavingRobots enslaving other Programs]] and planning to turn the same cruelty onto the human world. To switch the storyline to where the Programs are (for the most part) well-intentioned, and for ''humans'' to exploit virutal godhood in the ''worst'' way possible certainly hits one of the central premises of the universe and inverts the source of conflict shown in the movies, but doesn't do much past that. The spin-off comics take it all the way to DeconstructorFleet, however.

* IndecisiveDeconstruction: Of the "partial" and likely the "unintentional" varieties. The implications of humans being {{Physical God}}s in {{cyberspace}} are glossed over in the ''{{Film/Tron}}'' [[{{Film/TronLegacy}} films]] (and ExpandedUniverse), which feature [[AIIsACrapshoot malelovent Programs]] [[RobotsEnslavingRobots enslaving other Programs]] and planning to turn the same cruelty onto the human world. To switch the storyline to where the Programs are (for the most part) well-intentioned, and for ''humans'' to exploit virutal godhood in the ''worst'' way possible certainly hits one of the central premises of the universe and inverts the source of conflict shown in the movies, but doesn't do much past that. The spin-off comics take it all the way to DeconstructorFleet, however.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When Alan removes the correction algorithms to check them, fCon higher-ups Bazra, Popoff, and Crowne are merged together into the final boss upon digitizing.]]