No doubt Disney will offer many characters and power discs to collect, and kids who love Disney are definitely going to want them. This is where the similarity to Skylanders really lies: “Growth” in these types of games costs money. Bottom lineĭisney Infinity is a fun game with a lot of potential for growth. Several unplayable characters make small cameos as “town people.” These are small, Lego-like characters who are customizable members of your toy box. Who else? Fans of Little Big Planet, Minecraft, or Legos will love the world-building elements in Disney Infinity. There is some mild violence in beating up bad guys and wielding toy guns, and some parents may find this unsuitable for their children. They may have trouble with some of the more complex elements of building worlds in the Toy Box, but they’ll get a kick out of playing with Disney characters. You can unlock additional pieces for the Toy Box by playing through adventures and Play Sets.ĭisney Infinity is great for kids. These simple interactions are easy to pick up, but it takes some toying around (pun intended) to really get the hang of more complex connections. For example, you could place a pressure switch on the floor that opens a door in another area when it’s stepped on. You can even create minigames in your world by using pieces called Creativi-Toys, which can be linked together for various effects. Two players can play on one console or you can hook up with up to three friends online and share your Toy Box creations.
If building isn’t your thing, you can download worlds from Disney, as well as worlds that other players have created. Everything in the Toy Box is based on Disney properties, ranging from “Alice in Wonderland” to “Tron,” but you can create your own virtual world from scratch by choosing different pieces of landscape, buildings, or castles and placing them anywhere you want and having characters from different Disney stories interact with each other. In this game mode, anything goes you’re able to create your own world. ĭisney Infinity 3.0 could end up being a lot of fun for Star Wars fans willing and able to shell out for all the content and figures that will eventually be released over the next several months, but budget-conscious players – especially those who aren’t all that interested in diving into the Toy Box – would be wise to wait until the starter pack can be grabbed at a discount.Toy Box is by far the highlight of the game. Making these items available in an overpriced special edition starter pack simply insults anyone with a memory of all that we were given in the original Disney Infinity. It seems Disney’s suits are slyly betting that Star Wars fans’ love of that galaxy far, far away will lead them to look past this harshly underweighted starter pack and shell out for content and toys that ought to have been included in the first place.
They’re big – considerable effort was put into their creation – and not something we’d expect to be included in the starter pack.Īvalanche Software and its partner developers are making clear strides in play mechanics, and the Toy Box mode is as robust as ever, but Disney Infinity 3.0 simply fails to include enough in the box to really satisfy. These Toy Box games are going to cost you extra, but again, this sort of paid added content makes sense. You know exactly what you’re getting.īetter still, you can also buy full-fledged Toy Box games – including Toy Box Takeover (a dungeon crawler) and Toy Box Speedway (basically Mario Kart with a Disney theme) – that fulfill the franchise’s inherent promise of mixing and matching characters from disparate universes, making Baymax and Boba Fett combat allies, or letting Darth Vader ride around in Mickey Mouse’s jalopy. Instead, they’re being sold in groups of four, all clearly identifiable within the packaging. Plus, you no longer need to purchase power discs – those little plastic tokens that contain themes and items for use in the Toy Box – in blind packs, hoping to get the ones you want. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.