Gizmondo Europe Ltd and TGTL announced it will develop Buena Vista Games' "TRON 2.0" for the wireless, handheld Gizmondo platform. Buena Vista Games Inc. is the interactive entertainment arm of the Walt Disney Company's Consumer Products business unit that publishes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games worldwide. The game will be developed in house by Gizmondo Studios, which was named Warthog Games when it was acquired on October 29, 2004 by TGTL. TGTL exhibited the multi-entertainment device at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as being featured on the Microsoft and Nvidia stands. The event that ran from Jan. 6-9, 2005, introduced the feature-packed Gizmondo to the US market, ahead of the soon-to-be-announced, late-Q1 2005 launch date.
Carl Freer, Managing Director, Gizmondo Europe said. "We are excited to be working with Buena Vista Games in developing this exciting property and bringing it to the powerful Gizmondo device with its 3-D graphics features. TRON 2.0 will be seen from a totally new perspective on our device. We hopefully look forward to working with BVG on additional properties in the future. "
The TRON 2.0 game may include game-play elements unique to the device, such as location-based action and stealth using its unique GPS functionality. This provides Gizmondo users with a new dimension experience, especially suitable for multi-player scenarios.
Buena Vista Games' TRON 2.0 is a first-person action game based on the present-day sequel to the 1982 cult film classic. It could be adapted by Gizmondo to take into consideration a player's actual, physical location in a multi-player scenario. You can envisage an intense gaming experience consisting of an exciting sci-fi scenario, played out in an actual city environment. Players battle digital opponents with their Tron discs, get ambushed around the next, actual corner by Datawraiths and race their high-speed light cycles against rival Tron players in the vicinity. All in addition to the TRON 2.0 single player, story-line scenario.
