Disney Infinity 3.0 has been out for a while now and is arguably the best version of the game, yet. Most notably adding material from the Star Wars universe, it certainly isn't lacking interesting things to do and will doubtless be a favorite Christmas game for gamers both young and old. Of course, the game is an ongoing project, with new content such as playable characters and levels being added to the release on a fairly regular basis.
Disney just recently announced the latest additions to the game; both new playable characters and new power discs are now available. For new characters: Ultron, Hulkbuster, Darth Maul, and Spot have all been announced, with each character naturally coming as a figurine. There are four power discs, as well, consisting of Arlo, Nash, Butch, and Ramsey, characters from Pixar's upcoming film, The Good Dinosaur. These will each be mounts in the Toy Box mode.
What do you think? Will you be getting any of these? Who or what would you like to see added next? Drop us a comment in the section below.
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Oh is that dinosaur movie already out?
@TeeJay I think it comes out later this month.
@Tsurii That's not how they look in the film; it's the horrible art style this game has.
@the-madprofessor I agree, not a huge fan of how it looks. All the same, I can't think of a better art style to come up with for what this game needs to achieve. It's no small task finding a middle ground that can accurately represent so many characters from so many different animation and film styles.
I think the art style is pretty amazing in that it ties in characters from so many worlds and makes them look like they are from the same set. And the Star Wars characters look like their Clone Wars (cartoon) versions.
Getting back to the question at hand, Darth Maul is definitely going to be acquired along with the upcoming Force Awakens set/characters. Not so sure about Dinosaurs...depends if the kids enjoy the movie I suppose.
@Tsurii Yes the movie looks that bad. The background in the movie is almost phoyoreslistic, so real that you would think it was real, but the dinosaurs and kid are completely out of place. I've been saying for about a week now that it looks like a straight to DVD flick and Pixar should be embarrassed to have their name associated with it. My wife and I kept seeing the commercial on TV during the World Series and every time we were in agreement on just how bad it looked, not just the graphics but story too. I checked online for why, and it turns out this movie has been a disaster being made, dumped halfway thru years ago and new director and actors brought in.
And now that I seever the photo above I now understand why it sucks. Disney actually made the characters in the film look like garbage so they would look like the garbage toys, which all look like garbage to me. Well except Tinkerbell, Mickey, and Donald, they look ok. I can'tbelieve they would purposely sabotage a film to sell the toys, but it's the only thing that makes sense. The movie is just a 90 minute commercial for the game.
Do believe your eyes, not the comments above mine.
I'll probably get the Darth Maul figure eventually, that's about it. It would be nice if they made more playsets that continue the CloneWars and original trilogy stories.
I see there'll be a Force Awakens playset releasing with the film, but it seems like a waste to drop what they built in the previous two sets.
Grabbed these discs yesterday as they are a great addition to the game.
@Tsurii The human brain has never liked CG humans. I've liked CG since the early days - about 15 years ago when Final Fantasy:Spirits Within released. And Square has always been good at CG, but not humans. But Pixar has always found ways to make it work. The Incredibles had a comic book look, those fat slobs in Wall-E. But the kid in this is just bad. And the fighting biting toddler has been done before. And this looks like a cheap DVD clone of the original "Ice Age" movie from 2002 when they try to return the kid to his clan.
But humans aside, CG dinos have looked great - well almost always. The original Jurassic Park. Even Disney's own "Dinosaur" from 2000. Which was almost exactly the same movie, only it looked good, and they make the asteroid miss in this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWMtsF5mb2A
This whole movie is just a toy commercial. And ugly toys at that.
@Tsurii and @rjejr - Oh brother, did you guys forget this is the same animation studio that created the Cars movies? They make kid-oriented family-friendly animated films with genuine heart. Heaven forbid an animation house makes a movie featuring cartoony dinosaurs! So quick to judge. I'm going to take my family to it and I'd bet we'll all enjoy it.
As for the Disney Infinity art style, sure it's kind of blocky sometimes. It's not for everyone, but I've played each of the games quite a lot and have found that it's a good style to translate disparate properties into a unifying look. It works for the game. And the figures are actually all quite nice. I'm sure we'll pick these all up at some point.
@CosmoXY "cartoony dinosaurs!"
But they don't look cartoony. They look like something you make on a home computer in a few minutes to show to people to explain what the story is.
We've already seen these same dinosaurs look good in a CG movie in 2009 in Ice Age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_nSwh2WjAM
It's the same dinos looking almost the same, but they look so much better b/c they fit in the rest of the film. The attempt at making these dinos overly cartoony and having them overlayed onto a photorealsitc background makes them look so bad b/c they are so out of place. It's possibly if they matched the background they would look fine - I've seen a few of the Land Before Time movies, all those cartoon dinos look fine, these just aren't up to Pixar quality.
I think most people see a scene from a Pixar movie and they know it - Toy Story, Finding Neo, Wall-E, Inside Out, Up, they have a certain look to them, very polished an well done. I suspect most people seeing this video would not guess Pixar made it.
I hope you and your family enjoy the film, but as a huge fan of Finding Nemo I'm skipping this one. I feel like I've already seen that growling boy before, long ago, and he looked better back then.
I honestly like the look of the Dinosaurs and stuff in that top screenshot more than I do the actual movie, where I think it has too many conflicting styles for the various elements. It looks really cool in that screenshot, imo, and I wish the movie looked more like that to be honest.
I think the people who are saying it looks terrible in that screenshot are possibly confusing graphics tech with good old art, and basically I'm saying I think it's completely wrong to use tech as the judge for what looks good because tech dates very quickly but art doesn't. The graphics tech in the film may be far more advanced than the game but the overall look is far more cohesive and works much better in that screenshot, imo.
If this were some brand new Nintendo first party game on Wii U, most people would be saying it looks great visually. You can trust me on that. And I honestly think it's even more visually appealing than the slightly more generic rendered look used in Nintendo's own 3D Mario platformers in many ways, to be brutally honest.
I mean, actually compare:
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That's my two bits worth.
@rjejr I don't mind if we disagree, but I think you're way off on a couple points. I just rewatched the trailer in the link you posted back to back with The Good Dinosaur trailer. Are there similarities in design of the dinosaurs? Sure, that's probably because they're both Cartoon Dinosaurs. But each is distinct, the Pixar dinos are even more cartoony than the Ice Age characters, they have the signature Pixar look to them if you ask me. Here's the Good Dinosaur trailer for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daFnEiLEx70
And if you're saying you're not going to go see this because it's been done before, then you might as well not go to another movie ever. Spectre, done before. Mockingjay Part 2, done before. Creed, done before. In the Heart of the Sea, done before. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, done before. They're all sequels, reboots, remakes, etc. Even the ones that aren't are variations on themes and characters you've seen before.
Finally, the little girl from Finding Nemo is crude compared to the caveman boy in Dinosaur. Pixar has improved their techniques quite a lot in twelve years. I don't see much similarity outside of, as I said, the signature Pixar design style.
@CosmoXY I think it's a combination of the graphics and the story that has me not interested. But no, in general I don't see a lot of movies b/c not really that much interests me, you are correct, it has all been done before. I will see Dory though. And Star Wars, b/c, well, Star Wars. I'm not expecting a lot out of Star Wars, just hopeing it's closer to 4,5,6 than 1,2,3.
I also got burned taking my kids to see The Croods a couple of years ago. It looked like such a good trailer, like the Ice Age and Madagascar films that we all like, and How to Train your Dragon, and Cloudy w/ a Chance of Meatballs, but it was so boring.
Maybe I just expect more out of Pixar? I haven't seen Inside Out yet but I really want to, it looks so unique. We might watch it as a family New Years Eve. That or Avengers 2. And "Up" has a unique story, though I somehow haven't seen that yet either. "Wall-E" was really interesting. A lost kid and dinosaur? I'm not feeling it.
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