Disney Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion 3DS

Disney Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion Product Details

Released on 23-Nov-2012

• Epic Mickey 3 might be a musical, says Warren Spector

  Warren Spector, the man behind Deus Ex and now working on the Epic Mickey series for Disney, has bold ideas for where he'd like to take the series. The addition of two-player co-op in the upcoming Epic Mickey: The Power of Two is an obvious evolution, but the inclusion of songs is apparently just the first step towards creating a full video game musical.

  "I had some really crazy ideas about ways to use music in games, that seemed very Disney-like to me," Spector told IGN in an interview this week. "This time around, in the second game, I just wanted to take a baby-step to making the full-blown interactive musical game. This is not it. Gamers, you tell 'em there are songs in the game and they start getting panicked, but I just want to see if people will accept songs in games and, if they do, next time I'm going crazy. People don't even know what's gonna hit 'em."

  It's all part of what Spector calls his three-story arc, where he works out in advance what new ideas he'd like to explore in future instalments of any game he works on. "One of the parts of my process is I figure out a three-story arc, like a narrative arc, and then I figure out, 'Okay, if we get lucky enough to do more than one game set in this world, what's the game innovation? What's the new thing in the first one? What would the new thing be in the second game? What would the new thing be in the third?'"

  Are you ready for song and dance numbers in games? We'll find out in November, when Epic Mickey 2 arrives for the Wii, Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3.
  

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