Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)First off, let me get out of the way that the game itself is fantastic. 5 out of 5 stars. Props to Warren Spector and Junction Point Studios (the game's developer). This review, however, regards the bonus material for buying the Collector's Edition and its value over buying the standard edition.
* The Mickey Statue: Cool concept, but one small problem: It was completely broken. Apparently, I'm NOT the only one with this problem! This seems to be a wide-scale defect. In my case, the left-arm fell off (a clean break right out of the arm socket, easily fixed) and his nose was also broken off (also fixed, but not as clean). Luckily I am one of those geeky adult collectors who is handy with small models and fixed it, but if you were buying this for your child for Christmas and their Mickey statue was shattered, they would be heartbroken. Also, this would be more understandable if the statue were actually a statue, but it's more of a plastic/vinyl action figure, a material that tends to be durable. How many plastic action figures have you seen ever shatter during shipping? They can take a beating! This is clearly shoddy craftsmanship.
* Wiimote Skin: This is the only included product that's of high quality and matches what you expect. It is not the same material as what DecalGirl-type skins usually use, it's more like a sticker, but still it fits the Wiimote exactly. I put it on a Wii Motion Plus remote and it fit perfectly.
* Console Skins: These skins were pretty much the reason I bought the Collector's Edition over the regular game. The "skins" turn out to be dinky little 3"x3" square stickers. They are not fit to the sides of a Wii console, the way other console skins fit. All in all, VERY disappointed. By the way, if you want an idea of how big the skins are, look at the thumbnail for this item on Amazon up above. See the skins next to the statue? That's the exact size comparison. I thought they were just shrunk to fit the image, but no, that's actually how big they are.
* Bonus DVD: Not much material. This is stuff that should have just been embedded with Flash video on the official site. If this were the only extra, it would not be worth it. Odd that you can't actually play this on your Wii (no DVD-Video support). Hope you have a real DVD player or another game console that can play it.
If I had to make this purchase again, I would not. However, I would instead buy the regular edition of the game. The game itself is probably the best non-Nintendo game on the system. The Collector's Edition extras however, are a rip-off!
Disney Interactive really should recall the statue and skins and ship off non-broken statues and skins that actually fit! They should outsource the skin to DecalGirl, and as for the statue, the company that made it was called MindStyle and should be avoided. Buyer Beware!
Click Here to see more reviews about: Disney Epic Mickey
Disney Epic Mickey is an action-adventure platforming game for the Wii console that sends Mickey Mouse on an epic journey of creativity and discovery. As Mickey, the player is propelled into Wasteland, an alternate world made up of Disney's forgotten creative efforts, and is given the power to wield paint and paint thinner to dynamically change the world while determining Mickey’s path to becoming an epic hero. Through the use of this unique paint and paint thinner, the key components of animation and Mickey's tools for impacting his world, players will have the ability to shape how the story unfolds as they discover the concept of "Playstyle Matters" - an innovative style of gameplay created by Disney Interactive Studios’ Junction Point, led by industry luminary Warren Spector, where players creatively tackle different challenges in the world to explore all the possibilities and storylines – but with consequences for their chosen actions.
Get 14% OFF
0 comments:
Post a Comment