If your house is anything like our house, then the above trailer is a pretty big announcement. My boys are huge Disney Infinity fans. We bought 2.0 for them recently, and it is slowly winning them over from Skylanders. They enjoy the levels in the plates, but they also enjoy just playing in the Toy Box where they can build and do anything they want, and they don’t have to worry about bad guys or dying or any of that. They also like Star Wars quite a bit, so this makes the new version of the game even more exciting for them.
I’ll admit, I don’t totally get Disney Infinity, but I am learning more and more about it. One of the things I don’t like about it, at least for 2.0, is that the characters only work in specific play sets and the Toy Box. So, I can’t play Captain America in the Spider-Man play set, only in the Avengers plates. The only way I can team Cap up with Spidey is in the Toy Box, which is completely unstructured, unless you structure it. If I purchase the Disney Original characters that have come out with 2.0 like Baymax or Donald Duck, they only work in the Toy Box. So what’s the point in leveling them up and adding skills to their skill trees? With 2.0 Disney only released Marvel play sets.
With 3.0, they will be releasing 2 (soon to be 3) Star Wars play sets and 1 Disney play set (Inside Out) and 1 Marvel play set (which has yet to be announced, but I am pretty positive it will be Age of Ultron), so there will be some playable, structured content outside of Star Wars. In addition to that, the Toy Box will feature two new games that will be structured. One is an action adventure game called “Toy Box Take Over.” The other will be a kart racing game caller “Toy Box Speedway.” I picture the second one being similar to a Mario Kart type game, but featuring any and all of the characters that have been released on 1.0, 2.0, 3.0. That sounds epic, and like hours of family fun. Of course, Mario Kart is one of those family games that everyone knows and loves. Luckily, families could still access this game if they wanted to. Families could always use Gamulator for this. Hopefully, that will give families even more fun games to play together.
The new content in the previews looks pretty amazing, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it and to play it with the kids. Or to play it after the kids go to bed. I am hoping that the additional content they are adding will be a big improvement over what we got with 2.0, and I am pretty excited that it is another way I can share my childhood geekiness with my own kids. There is no release date yet for the game, but it should be sometime this fall.
What do you think? Will you be rushing out to buy this game when it hits the stores? Or will you wait and see if it is any good? Let me know in the comments.
