*Disclosure: Disney Mamas was provided with a copy of Disney Infinity 2.0 and supporting items to review. Even though this product was provided at no cost the opinions expressed below are always our own.
Our weekend kicked off in a major way when I discovered a lovely box on my front porch filled to busting with a copy of Disney Infinity 2.0 Marvel Super Heroes Edition for Xbox 360, Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy Play Set and additional Disney Infinity 2.0 characters. Let’s just say that one soon to be 5 year old boy thought his birthday and Christmas had come early, and his Daddy was just as excited. So, much of our weekend was spent testing out the new Disney Infinity 2.0.
My husband wanted to make sure that we shared our initial thoughts with you all as quickly as possible. So here goes!
Disney Dad Chris’s Thoughts on Disney Infinity 2.0
It’s a great game, very similar to the original, making for a a seamless transition, even for our (almost) five year old.
In 2.0 the characters can actually be defeated, sending you back to the last checkpoint in single player mode. In two player mode, upon defeat you must wait for your compadre to come to the rescue, which can be a long time if your (almost) five year old doesn’t understand that concept and leaves you hanging.
They’ve added an onscreen radar showing mission objectives, mission givers, friends, and foes in your vicinity.
The mission guide is much improved over the original game, providing not only direction, but relative distance.
We haven’t cracked it yet, but there is a device that allows character crossover, once you collect five of that character’s coins.
The starter pack comes with enough characters to play as two players without additional purchases.
It appears as though the difficulty level can be changed, mainly for opponent strength…will explore that more in the next few days.
There are several different types of sparks…that actually do things…green sparks, for example, renew your character’s health.
Overall we’ve had a great time with it and I’m sure we’re only just scratching the surface.
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It seems like there is so much more to the 2.0 version of the game than with the original version. I love it! I actually love that the characters can be defeated (and mine get defeated a lot!). You can just replace it with another character and continue playing (if you don’t want to wait). It’s fun to play with several of the different characters!
I am so impressed with the color and detail of this game; I bet if I bought this for my much older sons they would still love it!!
The graphics are incredible!
This looks like a lot of fun! My boys aren’t into video games. I’m not sure if that’s good or not! haha! Great review!
Beth, I feel you! We aren’t a video game family, and didn’t even own a system until last year when we purchased an xbox360 in order to play Disney Infinity. We are definitely not a gaming family, but I do like that this is more than just watching tv when it’s too hot to be outside!
Great review so far! Can’t wait to see what’s next. We would love to upgrade our system so we could finally see what Disney Infinity is all about
We bought our very first gaming system last year at Christmas just for Disney Infinity. And it is still the ONLY game we own!
Great review, I’m sure we have only scratched the surface of this game, the crossover sounds very exciting – can’t wait to play.
We can’t wait to get to the crossover! It will be neat to see characters working together.
Oh wow – i didn’t know you can be defeated on this one, i’m figuring our 10 year old son would be leaving me high and dry as well. Can’t wait to try playing with our favorite Marvel characters!
Which begs the question, which Marvel characters are your favorites?!
Our game has to wait for Christmas, but can’t wait to pull it out. It’s interesting how Disney can make gamers out of so many of us.We have a wii with several of the Disney games and then bought an Xbox 360 to get the Disneyland game and Infinity :-).
Do you have the Disneyland Kinecx game? Trying to decide if we should invest in the Kinecx.
Oh, and Rocket is my favorite! The girls want Spiderman and Loki.
Great review! I am thinking this would be a great Christmas gift. Maybe by then my son will be ready to move away from Minecraft. We have the Wii Disney Infinity1.0 and that has been a blast for everyone.