Warren Spector: Epic Mickey May Be the Best Looking Game on Wii
by Kirolos Fam on 08 September 2010, 1782 views
Epic Mickey designer Warren Spector had big things to say about the game in a new interview. Despite the Wii being weaker technically than the PS3 and Xbox 360, Warren Spector wanted to prove a point with the game and the graphics.
“This is a Disney game. It’s going to have the lush, beautiful, bright colours of a Disney feature film on the Wii. And I want players and I want our competition to think ‘holy cow I didn’t know you could do that on a Wii.’”
“For my money, Epic Mickey may be the best looking Wii game ever. The critical thing is I believe we’ve captured the spirit of the character, and the essence of Disney. That’s what we needed to do.
“When you start any project you have to know what you want to achieve,” he said.
Warren Spector also mocked some of the "brown" looking games and also noted that the developers had a very limited time to show passerbys at E3 that Epic Mickey doesn't look like any other game.
“I remember when we started this project I told the team that some day we’ll be at E3, and there are going to be 2,500 games on display, and 1,800 are going to be brown. ‘Welcome to brown world!’ And the others are going to be [mock enthusiasm] hyper-real! Everything looks real now!
“I told the team we’re going to have five seconds – five seconds for people walking past our exhibitor booth to know that Epic Mickey doesn’t look like any other game.”
A good showcase of Epic Mickey's graphics is the first part to the game's opening scene which uses real-time graphics. What do you think, does it look like one of the best games on Wii, if not the best?
“I want our competition to think ‘holy cow I didn’t know you could do that on a Wii’”
Warren Spector wants to send a message to the Wii sceptics of the development world with his latest project, Epic Mickey.
Nintendo’s home console has famously modest tech specs when compared to its direct competitors, but Spector insists Epic Mickey will show just how far the system can be pushed.
“This is a Disney game,” the Junction Point founder tells Develop.
“It’s going to have the lush, beautiful, bright colours of a Disney feature film on the Wii. And I want players and I want our competition to think ‘holy cow I didn’t know you could do that on a Wii’.”
Though there might be a resistance from some corners of the industry to develop Wii titles, Spector insists the console can host games that truly stand out from the crowd.
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“For my money, Epic Mickey may be the best looking Wii game ever. The critical thing is I believe we’ve captured the spirit of the character, and the essence of Disney. That’s what we needed to do.
“When you start any project you have to know what you want to achieve,” he said.
Source: Develop
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