Disney Interactive has pulled back the curtain on the next development in the Disney Infinity series. Today, the company revealed “Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes”.
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes will star Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, and more well-known characters from the Marvel universe. The game will launch this fall.
Details include:
– Note: to clarify, Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes acts as a new “2.0 Edition”
– All Disney Infinity figures from the original version will be compatible
– This applies to Power Discs as well
– All Toy Boxes from Disney Infinity 1.0 are compatible with 2.0
– Disney Infinity base is also compatible
– New Starter Pack comes with Avengers Play Set piece, 3 Marvel characters, 2 interactive game pieces
– Coming to Wii U, PS3, 360, PS4, and Xbox One
– New massive environment: Marvel Manhattan
– This is four times larger than The Incredibles Play Set
– Character locomotion, special skills and combat, attributes and skill trees
– Hover mode, forward flight
– Combat being added into both of these
– Super jump feature for The Hulk, Captain America
– Hulk has a wall crawl ability
– More characters have this ability as well
– Combat will be true to the characters
– Brawler character: Thor and Captain America
– Can upgrade Captain America’s shield ability
– Range character: Hawkeye
– The Hulk is incredibly strong, doesn’t take as much damage
– Hulk has a rage mode
– Level cap being raised to 20
– Can upgrade health, other stats
– Structured play in the Toy Box mode
– Toy Discs bring the structured play
– Usability being worked on; players can go into the Toy Box and use it in a variety of ways
– Won’t be as complicated to use this time around
– City brush: put in roads, buildings, lamp posts, etc.
– Brushes for race tracks, dungeons, castles, treehouses, etc.
– Builders: drop them inside the world, they’ll start building things automatically for you
– Can edit anything the builders create
– New interiors feature
– Home: reflects your progress as you play the game (trophies, etc.)
– Express your personality and progress in here
– Unlock tower defense, dungeon crawler Toy Box games with the new Toy Box game discs included with the Starter Pack
– These offer about 3-4 hours of gameplay
– 80 new Power Discs
– Discs are coming in 2 different waves
– Discs include assist characters, costume changes, new vehicles
Disney Interactive shared the following sales bits during its press conference for the Disney Infinity 2.0 reveal:
– Over 3 million Disney Infinity Starter Packs have been sold since launch
– $500 million estimated global retail sales
– In the US, Disney Infinity has outperformed the competition in terms of total sales revenue
Another little nugget for you: 10 million Toy Boxes downloaded for Disney Infinity thus far.
You can find the full Mario Kart 8 site here.
Note: some portions of the video do not contain sound (mainly clips in the beginning) because Nintendo simply didn’t include any.
Thanks to Tytygh for the tip.
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams’ patch has finally reached Europe. That’s according to developer Black Forest Games, as the studio confirmed on Twitter.
Black Forest wrote:
Hi Europe, are you playing Giana on the WiiU-pad and missed some sound so far? Try it out now, Nintendo released the patch!
— Black Forest Games (@BlackForestTeam) April 30, 2014
As for North America, Giana Sister’s patch is still on the way. Nintendo simply needs to sign off on the update before it arrives.
@dyhptg The US Nintendo crew got the patch submission at the same time but seems to do longer testing. But I'm sure the approval comes soon.
— Black Forest Games (@BlackForestTeam) April 30, 2014
