For the uninitiated, 2.0 focused on Alan Bradley and his son Jet during events that seem to happen after Kevin Flynn leaves ENCOM (he says his farewells in an email file the player may or may not find, but probably will since it's part of the tutorial level). Alan is having trouble keeping ENCOM afloat and ends up selling out the company and it's proprietary tech (i.e. the laser that digitizes people, and the AI that handles the massive amount of data transfer and assembly during digitization) to a company named Future Control Industries (fCon). Long story short, fCon tries to use the digitizer to create a "portable flash drive army", and it's up to Jet to save the day, and his dad later on. Oh, and there's a false main plot involving an fCon employee who tried to digitize without the assistance of the AI, and became a debilitating virus.

Ed Dillinger is alluded to in the GBA companion game TRON: Killer App, but it's only a silhouette, and the mysterious figure never identifies himself, but goes on to say something about waiting for another opportunity for revenge.

END EXPOSITION

Apparently Tron: Evolution takes place between 1990 and 2000, which would place it well before the events of 2.0, and the movie "Legacy" takes place in present day. Is Disney/Buena Vista Interactive just going to throw us all a big "Screw you, this is how it happened. Monolith got swallowed up by Warner Bros. so whatever they did with us doesn't count anymore."?

Well, BVG pretty much already said that years ago when they unceremoniously dropped support for the game. But basically, yeah, the game has been retconned out of existence.

which is sort of a bitch because i liked the story in 2.0

Necro much?

I'm in Tech Support and I never fully got my head around any plots from anything Tron related so I don't know how anyone else copes
That said, I was always interested in giving Tron 2.0 a go because it looked like an interesting environment to FPS in, shame its only available on e-bay, piracy or a VERY lucky charity shop visit and that situation has a very low chance of changing...

Well yeah that dose kind of suck. On Disney's part this is probably less "screw you!" and more "What's a Tron 2.0".

2.0 barely fitted in canon with Tron Legacy. In Legacy we're told that Flynn has been missing for years But in 2.0 you can find an email from Flynn to Alan showing he's fine. Legacy takes place in a digital island community, isolated from human influence, 2.0 on the other hand takes place in the regular internet, You can try to force these things together, But your using Jigsaw pieces that aren't really meant to fit.

Best to view it like this; Terminator 3 & Salvation, Sahara Connor Chronicles and The Terminator comics where never meant to all be in the same canon. But they don't delegitimise each other (Why anyone would want Sahara Connor Chronicles to be legitimate is beyond me through). Each one is it's own thing (Admittedly that's easier with Terminator being a time-travel story).



Also does anyone agree with me that Tron 2.0 was needlessly hard? At the start you die almost instantly when hit and your early weapons are worse than useless and the stealth mechanic just doesn't work, enemies you sneak up on turn around suddenly for no reason no matter how quite you are, sometimes the second you are in poetical view. it's only round the half way point that you can fight enemies without peekaboo tactics.

I nearly rage-quit a dozen times. I'm pleased to say it improved enormously past the half-way point. But next time I'm playing on easy.
Between this and Shogo: Mobile Armour Division I think early Monolith had trouble making a reasonable challenge (I've heard that Blood 2 is also needlessly hard).

Has a videogame ever been "canon", or taken in consideration when making movie sequels ?

Hopefully not. This would put too much weight on videogames (that have gameplay constraints more than plot priorities), and, frankly, the consequences would be disastrous most of times.

Videogame adaptations of existing movie are, themselves, already quite disconnected from their plot...

James Cameron was so happy about Ubisoft's work on Avatar that he said he wanted to sit down with them to co-generate ideas for the movie sequels.
Not sure if it actually happened.

I actually read somewhere that it had but this is years ago when the Prince of Persia movie came out. This post is totally useless because I can't remember the game or even where I read it (might have been Entertainment Weekly) but the article went through all video game/movie crossovers and pointed to one that worked off the other for timeline and story. SHIT, I wish I could remember! :O This is going to kill me.

Enter the Matrix maybe?

IIRC, the main plot events in Star Trek Online are considered canon to the "Alpha" (pre-reboot) Star Trek universe. And believe it or not, the events of Aliens: Colonial Marines are supposedly considered to be canon as well.

I never had a chance to play the game but it certainly was one of the earliest examples of ARG advertising (alternate reality gaming). There was a site you went to and basically played around with a version of command line instructions. The site was ordinary looking and then became distorted after visiting a few seconds in which an entity would try and contact you over the command line prompt.

As far as Retconning goes, I choose to not recognize anything changed from 1999 onward. Why? Well it's the age of remakes and in the attempt of the quest for more money, story-lines be damned. The entire Star Trek reboot, the soon to be re release star wars remakes, the Star Wars prequel trilogy (that started this whole fiasco).

I remember reading somewhere that Dan Aykroyd had said that Ghostbuster: The Video Game (2209) was basically the third movie.

I wish!

No, that was a typo. I meant to write (2009).

EDIT: typo