Each character has a different specialty (Woody can swing on posts using his drawstring, Jessie can balance on small platforms, and Buzz can throw characters across the screen), so the strategy involved in getting through a level is a welcome addition. By hitting a button, you can switch between Woody, Jessie, and Buzz Lightyear at any point in the game. I wasn’t expecting to die as much as I did in a Disney game, but, as a fan of old-school, challenging platforming games, I was happy I did! Some of the levels are tough!īesides the nice level design, the other thing that helps Story mode work is the implementation of three playable characters on most of the levels. There are a couple missteps along the way, but overall, all the stages in Story mode are super fun, really well-designed, full of variety, and, most significantly, challenging. Even when I saw the movie I kept imagining how cool some of these scenes would be in a videogame.Īnd, most of the time, the levels are successful. Toy Story 3: The Video Game has levels set in a rollicking day care, in the ventilation shafts during a prison break, and even on the complex, scary conveyor belts of a deadly (at least, for toys) junkyard. This is not an adaptation of My Dinner with Andre. One, Toy Story 3 the movie is full of set pieces that easily translate to an exciting, action-packed videogame. Lucky for the game, though, this fairly straight-forward mode has two great things going for it. Story mode is exactly how it sounds: each (fairly linear) level in the game recreates a famous scene from the movie, continuing on until the story comes to a close. It helps that the graphics are surprisingly polished, but, other than the excitement of playing a scene from the movie, the opening stage of the game feels uninspired and, sadly, a little boring.īut once this initial level is over, Toy Story 3: The Video Game completely opens up and shows you exactly what makes the game so great!Īt the conclusion of the first stage, players will have a choice to continue playing the game in Story mode or tackling the epic, shockingly robust Toy Box mode.įirst, let’s talk about Story mode, as I want to save the best for last. This stage serves as a tutorial, showing players how to jump, hang from ledges, use weapons - you know, all the stuff you have seen before. The game begins with you playing as Woody in a recreation of the movie’s awesome opening scene aboard a runaway train full of orphans. I obviously knew it would follow the story of the movie, and I heard a lot of the buzz (no pun intended) that Toy Story 3: The Video Game was going to offer up much more content and creativity than your average adaptation, but I wasn’t sure exactly what any of that entailed.Īnd, admittedly, at first, Toy Story 3: The Video Game feels exactly like any other generic 3D platforming game on the market. Going into the game, I really didn’t know that much about it. Good news! While Toy Story 3: The Video Game doesn’t reinvent the (Hot)wheel, it does give me hope that videogames based on movies can be pretty decent, solid little packages. Toy Story 3: The Video Game (Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, PC, Xbox 360 ) Hit the jump for my review of Toy Story 3: The Video Game. So, what did I think? Were the hours I put into the game as exciting as finding an old Snake Mountain in the attic whose “microphone” still works after all these years? Or was playing the game as disappointing as pulling out KerPlunk and expecting it to be as fun as it was when you were little? I had already seen Toy Story 3 multiple times in the theater (it is so good!), but was very concerned that the game would not even be close to as adventurous, charming, or exciting as the movie it was based on. Going into Toy Story 3: The Video Game I was nervous. As much as I love exploring the sewers of Paris as Remy from Ratatouille, THE GAME IS TERRIBLE! And, sadly, most of the Disney/Pixar games are no exceptions. Let’s be honest: movie to videogame adaptations are notoriously bad. NOT ASHAMED! I am a super fan!īut sometimes this super fandom can result in massive disappointment. Yeah, I am not ashamed that my friends on Xbox Live still see me playing Cars to this day. I love them so much, in fact, that I have played every single videogame based on every single Pixar movie that has come out.
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