Summary

• Disney has had success in the video game industry with top-quality games like Castle of Illusion and DuckTales that received critical acclaim for their unique visual style and gameplay.
• In addition to that, Disney Infinity was a popular toys-to-life game that allowed players to use plastic figurines to bring a vast array of characters into the game, providing hours of gameplay and fun.
• Another Disney video game gem was Toy Story 3, which surprised players with its open-world town management game mode called Woody's Roundup.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Walt Disney Company has d𝕴ipped its toes into every entertainment medium imaginable. Movies, TV series, merchandise, books, music – you name it, it's found a way to get its name and precious IP slapped onto it at some stage. This, of course, extends to that multimillion dollar industry, video games.

Licensed video games typical🧸ly have something of a stigma surrounding them. Granted, in many cases, they can be half-heartedly rushed out to coincide with a holiday deadline or the reꦆlease date of a film they're tying into. But that isn't always true; and indeed there are a fair few top-quality Disney gaming experiences. Here's a look at some.

Updated on November 11, 2024, by Bobby Mills: There are more Disney games out there than ever before. What was once just the realm of cheap movie tie-ins has expanded to a respectable array of efforts. Most recently, the beloved cult classic Epic Mickey received its 'Rebrushed' remake, and it's so enamored us that we thought it deserved a spot on our ranking.

15 G-Force

Sometimes It's Fun Being The Guinea Pig

A particul🅺ar generation of Disney fans likely just got whiplash from reading the very title 'G-Force.' One of those movies that almost everyonꦺe saw, but almost nobody remembers (or cares to remember), the middling tale of a band of secret-agent guinea pigs at least delivered an engaging videogame version. Yes, seriously.

This is a disarmingly competent 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ratchet and Clank clone, set during the movie's climax when an army of evil killer appliances has been activated across the globe. As Darwin the guinea pig, you run, gun, and otherwise decimate your mechanical foes, which include razor-teethed waffle irons and ai♐r fresheners that spray lethal gas. The weapons are varied, the strafe-aiming is tight, and there's a smattering of platforming and puzzling to break up the action.

If you can pick it up on sale, it's an unexpectedly high-octane way t🦩o burn ten hours or so.

14 🎃 Disney SpeedStorm

Not Quite Mario Kart, But It'll Do

On paper, Disney SpeedStorm looks like the absolute tops. A gaggle of your favourite Disney and Pixar characters have been thrust together in a Tron-esque digital realm, where the only activity is racing, racing... and, er, more racing. And in fairness, 💦it delivers on that concept — but it's hampered slightly by being a free-to-play title.

Make no mistake: the actual gameplay of SpeedStorm is sublime. Matches are high-octane thrill rides as you barrel through the Monsters Inc. factory, Tortuga, Agrabah, and more, accentuated with badass, thumping sound design and eye-melting visuals. The problem is that it's a colossal grind. The devs took the predatory mobile gaming format and applied it to a full-fat home console experience — the resultꦆ is an uneven package that occasionally breaks out into greatness.

13 Lego The Inc♌redibles 𝐆

Fantastic Plastic

TT Games are no strangers to the Lego biz. Since 2005's Lego Star Wars, these co-op platformers have been reliably cranked out year-on-year, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:they're (almost) all a laugh riot. Lego The Incredibles is no exception; launched to coincide with the sequel's 2018 debut, this is as close to a 'Lego Pixar' game as you're likely to get🅠.

It isn't just the Parr family who you can play as while fighting crime. Sure, things start off pretty kosher, with you playing through the stories of both Incredibles films – but once you unlock enough collectible blocks, the likes of Woody, Dory, Merida, and WALL-E join the roster. It's a veritable Pixar party, and married to the typical TT Games visual wit, it's an incredible time.

Lego The Incredibles is notable in that it marks only the🌳 second time a Disney series has receivedꦯ a TT Games adaptation. The first was Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, back in 2011.

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Other than these two games, almost the entire Lego game roster consists of Warner Bros. IP. (Assuming you don't count Star Wars or Marvel, which Disney did not own when th𝓀e Lego series kicked off.)

12 𝄹 Castle Of Illusion

We're Under No Illusions, This Is A Classic

Launched in 1990 on the Genesis, this platformer starred Mickey Mouse and had quite the pedigree behind it, being developed by SEGA. This immediately gave it a leg-up in terms of quality, and the game was, in fact, critically lauded ꦡfor its unique visual style, tight controls💙 and inspired level design.

Playing as the perennially-popular rodent, you'll navigate the various rooms of the titular castle, which open out into different pocket dimensions. Your aim is to save Minnie from the gnarled clutches of witch Mizrabel (not to be confused with Encanto's plucky protagonist.) So strong was gamers' affection for Castle of Illusion that it received a gorgeous HD glow-up in 2013. Ha-h🔴a!

11 Disney Infinity 😼

Infinite Possibilities, If You've Got Infinite Cash

Infinity was Disney's answer to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the 'toys-to-life' fad, kicked off by Skylanders in the early 2010s; they were certainly never ones to leave easy money on the table. By plonking plastic figurines of a vast array of characters onto a supplied base, you were able to beam them into the game, and take𒆙 them on a host of wacky adventures.

As a value proposition, Infinity was staggering; 🤡the base game came with three 'Play Set' campaigns in one, each offering eight to ten hours of gameplay (though more could, of course, be purchased). Then there was the Toy Box, where you could quite easily send Mike Wazowski on a joyride through Radiator Springs with Jack Sparrow. Top that off with its sequels adding Marvel and Star Wars, and Infinity was tremendous fun – whiꦚle it lasted.

10 DuckTales

Life Is Like A Hurricane

Another retro classic — this time on the NES and developed by t🍸he guys in yellow, Capcom — DuckTales remains a nostalgic favourite. It quite wisely avoids adapting any one episode of the show, and instead concocts its own narrative. The Beagle Boys haveꦇ ransacked Scrooge's money bin and made off with a host of valuable artifacts, so it's up to the ever-daring McDuck to pogo-cane his way across the globe to nick 'em.

The controls here were buttery-smooth, in a way that only a dev team weaned on the Mega Man formula could have pulled off. The boss fights w༺ere iconic, t♏he level designs varied – and of course, that OST slapped. The Moon theme easily tops any 'greatest gaming songs' lists you care to name. For a modern take on this masterpiece, try WayForward's 2013 redo, DuckTales Remastered.

9 🙈 Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear To The Rescue

Polygons Came From Outer Space

The Toy Story series has had a 🎐long an🍎d very, very sweet relationship with the gaming industry. Perhaps fitting for a film that pioneered so much technologically, it's not really ever missed with its console adaptations; so this isn't the last time it'll be appearing on our list.

Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue is a childhood 3D platformer for the ages, tying into the sequel while not necessarily married to its plot (perhaps because the movie went through such development hell, nobody actually knew what the plot was going to be.) Playing as everyone's favourite deluded spaceman, you'll contend with the dangers of Andy's house, Al's Toy Barn and beyond as you assist the other toys 💫with assorted chores. It's... more fun than it sounds.

8 Epic Mickey𒈔 🌌

Not Your Grandpappy's Mickey

Epic Mickey was a highly ambitious project for the Mouse House, and as such they threw the full weight of their marketing machine behind it. Their approach to resuscitating Mickey in the gaming space was certainly a un🌸ique one: hire the dude behind Deus Ex, Warren Spector, and make it as gritty as they could get away with.

Things kick off when Mickey accidentally ravages ꦏa world that Yen Sid has created for forgotten Disney IPs (like Oswald the꧂ Lucky Rabbit, who serves as the world's king). Many years pass, and Mickey's sucked back into Wasteland by resident baddie the Shadow Blot. He's given a choice: either save the land he so horribly broke, or finish it off.

With arresting visual direction, intriguing moral compass meꩲchanics, and a gripping narrative, Epic Mickey had all the right pieces. It was just marred by a wonky camera and busted physics, which is why we're thankful for the existence of...

7 Epi💟c ꦅMickey: Rebrushed

A Perfect Coat Of Paint

Conventional wisdom holds that the third time's the charm – but those clever clogs at Disney bagged it in tw🔜o. This lavish, ground-up remake nips and tucks the original beyond all recognition, which in the case of a title as rough around the edges as Epic Mickey, is entirely a good thing. The Unreal Engine is straining to its limits, allowing Wasteland to come to life in a tangible, haunting way the 480p Wii couldn't ever muster.

The quest system has been rendered less opaque, the cutscenes have been fully reanimated, and crucially, the camera now bothers to follow Mickey around rather than ge🎉tting snagged on trees or deciding to instead capture the splendor of a random pillar off in the distance. Double-dippers will find a tripled amount of collectibles to sniff out, while first-timers will experience this cult classic in its best-ever form. This is no mousetrap.

6 Disneyland Adven𒈔tures

Still Cheaper Than A Park Ticket

Everyone loves a Disney Parks vacation. But let's face it: they're expensive as all ♕get-out. Disney Interactive sought to address this issue with 2012's Disneyland Adventures, launched first with shrugging indifference for the Kinect and then ported everywhere else. The main hook is irresistible – the entirety of the Magic Kingdom is recreated in virtual format, in pa🥂instaking detail. Every trash can, every manhole cover, every meet-and-greet spot is accounted for, and it's a joy.

Sure, the actual gameplay is rather half-baked. You'll meander about the park as some kid, doing odd jobs for the (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:curiously demanding) Disney folk. Fine, Ariel, we'll clean up your forks, you litterer. The rote quest system and bland collectibles can't overshadow the fuzzies you get from hugging Pooh, or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:taking a spin on Big Thunder Mountain, though.