Have you been to any of the Disneyland Parks? Well this is as near as you can get without dropping a disgusting amount of cash.
Essentially this is a collect em up - with the usual kinect dance, sports and randomness thrown in. You start off by picking your avatar and then after a very brief 'how to move' tutorial from your floating assistant, it's time to waltz straight up to Mickey to get the ball rolling with the quite frankly astonishing amount of tasks contained within this game.
The graphics are lovely (and in some places truly wonderful), if a little stuttery, however they convey the feeling of strolling around a Disneyland park excellently. The sound is also very nice (Tim Allen back in his role as Buzz Lightyear for example) with genuine sounding family chatter from all the NPC's also walking around the Park (apart from wailing kids and swearing dads) and what sounds like the actual recordings used for the rides. Oh yes - the rides.
Being a complete replica of a Disneyland park all the locations (Main street, ToonLand, Fantasyland etc) are all there as are all the well known rides are there for you to have a go on, although this is usually a cut scene that you can't exit and just goes on a little too long. Some of the other rides are sub games with one or more levels spanning different genres.
The bulk of the game play is doing odd jobs for the various Disney characters that are knocking around (all the well known ones are represented here), which generally consist of finding 1 or more items and bringing it back to the lazy so and so. These items are found in the sub games (of which there are many) or just lying in the street.
You also have tasks such as photographing Secret Mickey icons scattered around each zone, snapping famous attractions, using a wand to apply a magic effect to huge amounts of objects, firing Buzz's gun at lights (?), Fishing, conducting brassbands and on and on and on...
Obviously this game is aimed at kids, and if they like Disney or have ever been to a park they are going to love this, but it's quite frankly huge - I'm at 11% of the game after spending around 8 hours on it so don't expect your littluns to blast through it in a day or two, it's got some serious longevity.
A mention has to go to the kinect controls and voice recognition as well - it's very well done, with voice activation for pretty much everything in the game (even shopping).
So final thoughts are, if you have a kinect and kids of around 4-5 or you’re just a massive kid yourself, pick this one up.
Essentially this is a collect em up - with the usual kinect dance, sports and randomness thrown in. You start off by picking your avatar and then after a very brief 'how to move' tutorial from your floating assistant, it's time to waltz straight up to Mickey to get the ball rolling with the quite frankly astonishing amount of tasks contained within this game.
The graphics are lovely (and in some places truly wonderful), if a little stuttery, however they convey the feeling of strolling around a Disneyland park excellently. The sound is also very nice (Tim Allen back in his role as Buzz Lightyear for example) with genuine sounding family chatter from all the NPC's also walking around the Park (apart from wailing kids and swearing dads) and what sounds like the actual recordings used for the rides. Oh yes - the rides.
Being a complete replica of a Disneyland park all the locations (Main street, ToonLand, Fantasyland etc) are all there as are all the well known rides are there for you to have a go on, although this is usually a cut scene that you can't exit and just goes on a little too long. Some of the other rides are sub games with one or more levels spanning different genres.
The bulk of the game play is doing odd jobs for the various Disney characters that are knocking around (all the well known ones are represented here), which generally consist of finding 1 or more items and bringing it back to the lazy so and so. These items are found in the sub games (of which there are many) or just lying in the street.
You also have tasks such as photographing Secret Mickey icons scattered around each zone, snapping famous attractions, using a wand to apply a magic effect to huge amounts of objects, firing Buzz's gun at lights (?), Fishing, conducting brassbands and on and on and on...
Obviously this game is aimed at kids, and if they like Disney or have ever been to a park they are going to love this, but it's quite frankly huge - I'm at 11% of the game after spending around 8 hours on it so don't expect your littluns to blast through it in a day or two, it's got some serious longevity.
A mention has to go to the kinect controls and voice recognition as well - it's very well done, with voice activation for pretty much everything in the game (even shopping).
So final thoughts are, if you have a kinect and kids of around 4-5 or you’re just a massive kid yourself, pick this one up.
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