The imminent release of the 3D movie Tron Legacy produced by Disney in theaters around the world and also in Italy (in cinemas from 29 December) brings back to fashion an old type of video games that were inspired by the 1982 movie Tron. Tron is a film set in a parallel cybernetic world and, in one of its most famous scenes, there is the battle between motorcycles inside an arena.
Tron's bikes, which are absolutely futuristic and very fast, do not compete to finish first but collide in a battle inside a square arena, closed by 4 walls, where the goal is to annihilate the opponent by knocking him .
During the race, each bike leaves a trail that becomes a wall for the other bikes.
The aim is therefore to cage the opponents so that they will collide against one of these walls.
To win you need a certain logic but also a good dose of reflexes because the bike can never stop, it always runs fast and can only turn at a right angle.
Even if the new Tron Evolution video game, mutiplayer, is coming out for Playstation and Xbox, there are several really fun free Tron games, in 2D or 3D, both as an online browser game, and in an open source version to download and install .
First of all, let's see Disney's official site of Tron, which presents the world of Tron with a very accurate graphics, where you can turn driving the motorcycle.
This is not a real online game, you can ride the bike using the computer keyboard, without however fighting against other opponents.
It is, more than anything else, a presentation of the film and the official game Tron Evolution which is sold in stores.
Tron's best online flash game is Fltron which can be played in multiplayer mode or against the computer.
Without the need for registration or registration, you can enter one of the servers made available by the fltron site and compete against up to three real opponents.
The more battles you win, the more points you score and climb the leader board.
Within a square, each player drives a different colored line and must draw trajectories so as never to crash and try to trap the other bikes.
As a game it reminds a little of the old Nokia Snake only that there are multiple snakes against each other.
If you want to train against the computer or if you want to play two against each other on the same computer, you can play Tron in Flash from the browser without downloading anything.
The real free game of the Tron movie in open source version, developed for Windows, Linux and Mac is Armagetron Advanced . ArmageTron is a game that you must download, install and play, not only because it is free but because it is really fun like few others.
It is a race with a 3D view of a motorcycle that never brakes.
The main purpose is to avoid crashing into the walls and the trails of the opponents, trying to make them collide against their wake that leaves the bike behind.
There is no track or track, but at the beginning it runs in an empty space that is filled with the trails of motorcyclists who thus become the walls to avoid.
With Armagetron the adrenaline goes up with graphics inspired by that of the first film Tron and a fast and rhythmic musical accompaniment (in Tron Legacy, the upcoming film, the Daft Punk soundtrack is fantastic).
The game modes are three and consist of playing against the computer at different levels of difficulty, the one on one race and the multiplayer races on the net, the most fun, to be played by connecting to some public servers where there are tournaments and championships.
Really among the funniest despite the fact that at the beginning, the futuristic graphic style may be a bit perplexing.
Similar to Armagetron is the game to download on computer Light Cycle 3D, always free and always inspired by the race in the way of Tron where you have to trap opponents to make them crash.
Another Tron game to download and install on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs is glTron, always with the race-clash between motorbikes in 3D but much less spectacular, more simplified and without multiplayer mode.
