Disney Infinity will delight you, inspire you, challenge you and cheerfully empty your wallet. Its methods for coaxing you to buy more and more of its world could be considered ruthless, except for one important factor: Like a Disney park, it gives you more than your money's worth.
In that respect, you could easily think of
Infinity, the company's toys-come-to-life-in-a-video-game juggernaut
, as
Disney Parks: The Home Edition. If you laid it out in theme park terms, the experience would look something like this:
The game is stuffed with elements geared specifically toward park fans,
from actual park music and vintage sound effects to an impressive
Matterhorn complete with a working bobsled rail slide. Epcot fans will
love the inclusion of Spaceship Earth, plus the game's introductory
sequence that casts you in the role of One Little Spark of inspiration.
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| Mrs. Incredible parks her Tron Recognizer in Tulgey Wood. |
The clever design sends you into a vast, anything-goes "toybox" world where you can combine themes and characters in any way you wish, selecting from hundreds and hundreds of parts to build your own games with your own rules--anything from racetracks and shootouts to pinball machines, obstacle courses and soccer fields. You don't have many parts available at the start, however. To get them, you have to venture from the toybox "hub" into the Playset worlds, which are large, scripted film-specific adventures
(Infinity's version of E-Ticket attractions).
