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Price: £free, £1.79 Platform: Apple iPhone OK, strictly speaking these are two apps but seeing as one of them is free and they're both stuffed to gills with geekiness, it seems a shame to separate them. In one, you're beamed inside a fan-boy's dream where every improbable scene and ridiculous high tech sub-plot seems both [...]
App of the Week – Tron vs Simon Pegg
pPrice free, 1.79p pPlatform Apple iPhone p pOK, strictly speaking these are two apps but seeing as one of them is free and theyre both stuffed to gills with geekiness, it seems a shame to separate them.p pa hrefhttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0452.pngimg titleIMG0452 border0 altIMG0452 srchttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0452thumb.png width404 height271 ap pIn one, youre beamed inside a fanboys dream where every improbable scene and ridiculous high tech subplot seems both brand new and nostalgically familiar. And the other one is Tron.p pa hrefhttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0458.pngimg titleIMG0458 border0 altIMG0458 srchttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0458thumb.png width271 height404 ap pLets start with Disneys Tron reboot, an impressively coded and disappointingly pofaced gamecompanion to Tron Legacy, due out next week. As youd expect, it looks gorgeous, all shimmering lines of code, neon lines and retro 80s styling.p pTheres the Daft Punk soundtrack to preview or buy, a few sketches from the Tron Betrayal prequel graphic novel and trailers to peruse, but everyone should really only be here for the games.p pa hrefhttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0455.pngimg titleIMG0455 border0 altIMG0455 srchttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0455thumb.png width404 height271 ap pTanks and Light Cycles are both topdown 2D games with authentically fiddly controls and bitty little graphics. The Tanks game is like Beserker without the fun just a series of mazes and other tanks to dispatch.p pa hrefhttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0447.pngimg titleIMG0447 border0 altIMG0447 srchttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0447thumb.png width404 height271 ap pLight Cycles is better but still weak. Yes, you can zip around gridlike arenas, collecting powerups and creating traps for fellow light cyclists. But the tiny cycles are too small to inspire any sensation of speed. Both games have online multiplayer versions that, like all online multiplayer games, involve getting whipped instantly by teenagers in Idaho.p pa hrefhttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0460.pngimg titleIMG0460 border0 altIMG0460 srchttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0460thumb.png width404 height271 ap pAfter all that corporate seriousness, its a genuine pleasure to dive into The Adventures of Simon Pegg, a charmingly overthetop wish fulfillment graphic novel that feels comfortably like squeezing into Peggs head with half a Twix and a Coke Zero. p pa hrefhttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0461.pngimg titleIMG0461 border0 altIMG0461 srchttpstuff.tvcsfilesblogsfutureWindowsLiveWriterAppoftheWeekTronDB4FIMG0461thumb.png width404 height271 ap pThere are robot butlers, ancient Egyptian artefacts, a saucy cat burglar, underground lairs galore and more nerdy pop culture references than, well, an episode of Spaced. Its beautifully drawn, smoothly animated and all that nonsense but more than that, its genuinely laugh out loud funny. If only Disney had spent 170 million bringing this to the big screen instead of Legacy...pimg srchttpstuff.tvaggbug.aspxPostID60241 width1 height1View full post on a hrefhttpstuff.tvblogsfuturearchive20101208appoftheweektronvssimonpegg.aspxStuff.tv All blogsa
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