One level, in fact, is dedicated to all the Mickey Mouse merchandise produced over the years and is called, ironically enough, Mickey Junk Mountain. The game is a mother lode of Disney history and memorabilia.
It's not exactly Disney music, but it does contain enough chords and melodies to make you strain to hear more and figure out what tune they twisted for each level. The background music will be hauntingly familiar to nearly everyone.
The warps are platforming levels that feature some of the old Disney cartoons, like "Steamboat Willie," which are exciting to see. Traveling from world to world through projector-screen warps is also fun. Using thinner on a colorful wall might reveal a hidden passage, while paint on an ugly building will garner you rewards from the characters nearby. With the ability to create and eliminate the environment, the three-dimensional worlds all have dual sides.Įach side can appear either dark and broken down, due to the thinner, or bright and colorful from paint. More choices help shape how missions get completed or whether the player misses them entirely. A friend or money - which do you want more? One of the very first dilemmas is choosing between releasing a Gremlin (a helpful character) or opening a chest of E-tickets (the currency of the game). Each choice will have its own reward or consequence. How players choose to handle situations is reflected in how they are treated in the game by other characters. With that control come choice and consequences, something Spector is very well known for in his previous titles, like the Ultima series, "Deus Ex," and "Thief."
"One of the programmers said, 'Why don't we give control over the stuff he's made of?' " "There has never been a game that lets you remove walls, floors, ceilings, objects, characters, and then bring them back," Spector said. Spector was hoping to challenge the player with his unique game mechanic. You can also use paint and thinner to create or eliminate buildings, trees and other structures. Painting on an enemy will make it your friend, while thinner will weaken and sometimes kill it. Thinner and paint are used extensively throughout the game to get Mickey through different levels, sub-levels and side missions. The brush works not just on enemies, but on the surrounding environment as well. Mickey uses a magic paintbrush in the cartoon world to help him either create with paint or destroy with thinner. "For gamers, it starts with the mechanic of drawing and erasing, removing things from the world and restoring them back again." "One of the goals, as crazy as it sounds, was to make it a game for everyone," Spector said. But he wanted to make a game that would appeal to all gamers. Game designer Warren Spector said for Disney fans, there is a lot to love and explore.
Wasteland is also populated by areas that are distortions of real areas at Disney parks like Mean Street (Main Street USA), Tomorrow City (Tomorrowland), and Ventureland (Adventureland). Disney would go on, a year later, to create the character that would become the symbol of his company - Mickey Mouse.īlack and white versions of Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar also return, as well as other characters that never made it to stardom. The land is ruled by Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a cartoon character created by Walt Disney in 1927 and ultimately lost to another studio.
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Wasteland is full of Disney characters who have been forgotten or become obscure. "Epic Mickey," an attempt to appeal to adult gamers as well as kids, places Mickey in a contemporary setting that also references Disney's rich history. The video game, out this week from Disney Interactive Studios and Junction Point Studios, puts Mickey Mouse in a challenging environment called Wasteland, where finding his way home will force him to make choices that can turn out to be either good or bad. (CNN) - "Disney Epic Mickey" is a fun adventure with everyone's favorite mouse, but a wonky camera and targeting system prevent it from fully achieving Disney magic.
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