Warren Spector Hoping for Third Visit to Wasteland for Epic Mickey
Epic Mickey 2 may have only just been released and hasn’t exactly set the world alight with its success, but Lead Designer for the series Warren Spector – of System Shock and Deus Ex fame – has already begun to express his hopes for a third game and explain some of the idead he may have in store for another game.
Strangely, in an interview over at popular energy drink Red Bull’s UK website, Spector revealed that he would love to re-visit Wasteland once again, and that he would have many more new stories to tell in the world that his team has created after going through all of the Walt Disney archives for inspiration. He even touched upon the fact that he developed the series into the first ever Musical video game, and that perhaps the musical scenes could become interactive.
Read an extract from the interview below:
“Oh man, there are so many aspects of Disney’s history to draw from, we’ll never run out of material. There are all sorts of forgotten characters, concepts from films that were never made, rides that have been retired from the Parks or never built at all,” he says. “We could map games for the next 80 years about Disney’s last 80.”
“I should probably keep some secrets, but I’d love to do something with all the rejected versions of Tinkerbell [from Peter Pan] we saw in the archives – I think fans would get a huge kick out of that.”
“I’d love to see the Disney Epic Mickey series continue – there are plenty of stories still to tell about Wasteland and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse! I’d love to see some Oswald games, where he’s on his own. He deserves a shot at solo stardom. Then there are the ‘duck’ games – Donald, Scrooge, etc – that are just waiting to be made. And a bunch of us at Junction Point have thoughts about Goofy and the Gremlins and a hundred others.”
The series hasn’t been the smash hit that Disney would have liked – but it has constantly shown bags of potential. Perhaps a third game would help finally make good on all of that undeveloped potential.
Epic Mickey 2 is out now on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, Wii U – Read our review here.
Robin Parker
If I'm not playing on a good Adventure Game - still longing for the long-past Golden Age of the genre, when Lucasarts and Sierra ruled supreme - you might find me searching for a local arcade, in the hopes that it still houses titles such as Sunset Riders or WindJammers.
