First details on Disney’s Epic Mickey
It’s been talked about a lot, but now Disney Interactive Studios is ready to divulge some details on Disney Epic Mickey. The game is an adventure-platformer with some light role-playing elements and is being developed for the Wii. The game stars Mickey Mouse as re-imagined by Dues Ex designer Warren Spector and his Junction Point game development studio. Spector, who is a self-described Disney fan, taps into the history, worlds, and characters related to Disney’s favorite mouse to create an “edgy and unexpected cartoon adventure.”
“Mickey is an adventurous and rambunctious mouse,” said Warren Spector, creative director and vice president, Junction Point. “I want to bring his personality to the forefront, place him in a daunting world and connect his spirited character with video game players worldwide. Ultimately, each player decides for him- or herself what makes Mickey cool.”
In the game’s fiction, a sorcerer named Yen Sid creates a world where Disney’s forgotten and retired creations thrive. Originally, the sorcerer from “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” in Walt Disney’s 1940 film “Fantasia” was nicknamed “Yen Sid” by Disney animators, although never named as such on screen. In Spector’s game, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - Walt Disney’s first cartoon star created in 1927 - becomes the earliest inhabitant of Yen Sid’s Cartoon Wasteland after Mickey Mouse is created.
