Could this be the one?

I’ve got one year to make up my mind. Maybe it won’t seem like as big of a deal then. But for right now? I must have it.

I haven’t been this excited about a video game in years. Yeah, there have been games I’ve really wanted, and those that the trailer got me excited for, but for each of them, if it wasn’t a PC-compatible game, I didn’t even consider them beyond thinking, “maybe I can borrow somebody’s system to play that.”

This is beyond that. This could be the straw that finally breaks the camel-who-doesn’t-own-a-game-console’s back.

Take a look at this trailer and tell me you don’t want to play this game. Unless you are my wife, or you never saw Tron, you won’t be able to do it.

That trailer simultaneously makes me want to play the game and see the Tron: Legacy movie it’s based on (oddly, they’re both being released around the same time… what a coincidence!).

I can’t put into words how much I hope this game is as good as I imagine it will be. I almost have higher hopes for this than I do for the movie, and this is just a teaser trailer!

I’m more excited about this than I am about Star Wars games. Even more than The Force Unleashed II, which is apparently also coming out next year (though I haven’t seen the trailer for that yet). To be honest, while I think that would be cool and I definitely want to play it, it probably won’t get me to buy a console any more than the original did. The reason is that I’ve played a lot of Star Wars games, and while I really enjoy them, and playing in that universe, the actual gameplay hasn’t changed a whole lot that I can tell. The graphics are certainly better, but by this point I’ve seen about every power you can have and there isn’t much in that universe that’s going to surprise me. Familiarity is actually working against the games at this point.

Tron: Evolution, on the other hand, has the potential to surprise the pants off of me. Yeah, I’m familiar with the original movie and games, but this is a whole new ball of wax now. We’re so beyond where we were when this franchise started that the possibilities for “upgrades” are almost astronomical. Based on the trailer, there will still be the grounding in the familiar, but I’m willing to bet there’s more. And I’m willing to bet I’ll like it.

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