Disney Epic Mickey bets on Mickey Mouse as an action hero (Digital Trends)

Digital Trends - Disney Interactive Studios has launched Disney Epic Mickey exclusively for the Nintendo Wii, a new video game that casts the iconic Mickey Mouse as an action hero. In the game, Mickey is set loose in in a Wasteland (which he inadvertently created, in a nod to Fantasia) with only paint and paint thinner to try to save the world and its cartoon characters. Disney Epic Mickey takes the form of a platform game in the Mario tradition, but also incorporates elements of RPG games and enables players to come up with their own solutions to getting through levels. And, as well as embracing Disney’s creative history with paint and paint thinner, the game incorporates a morality system that determines what side-quests, powers, and bosses Mickey will face.