If you had a PS3 and upgraded to the PS4, your base will still work, and Wii U owners can use their 1.0 bases for all versions of Disney Infinity on that platform. Microsoft base’s only work with their applicable hardware, so if you have a base for the Xbox 360 from either 1.0 or 2.0, they will work with with the Xbox 360 but not the Xbox One. Before purchasing the game digitally, you may want to look into seeing if the base you have is compatible with your hardware. If you didn’t buy the 3.0 starter pack but have the base from a previous version, you can buy the base Disney Infinity 3.0 game from your store of choice, in my case the PlayStation Network, at a cost of $19.99.
If you bought the Disney Infinity 3.0 starter pack, you can buy each game for $19.99 each. I’m going to talk about each game separately within this review, but before I get into them, I wanted to explain how you can go about playing these games, more specifically I’m going to break down cost. The games I’m talking about today are each sold at a cost of $19.99 each which seems a little high when two of these games came with 2.0 last year seemingly for free, however this year’s offerings offer a much more meatier experience than either of 2.0’s games which I didn’t even bother to finish. Last year’s Disney Infinity 2.0 came with two out of the box: A Diablo-esque dungeon crawler titled Escape from the Klyn as well as a tower defence hybrid game Asgard Tower Defence. This year’s version of Disney Infinity continues the trend of reducing content that comes in the starter pack: 1.0 came with three figures and three play sets, 2.0 came with three figures, a play set as well as two expansion games while 3.0 has two figures and one play set. With a Marvel play set not set for release until 2016, it was much easier for me to pass on Disney Infinity 3.0, that was until the release of two toy box expansion games that were released this month: Toy Box Speedway and Toy Box Takeover.įor those unfamiliar with the Disney Infinity expansion games, they games that aren’t quite campaigns yet are much more structured than the toy box.
Unlike a lot of the world, I haven’t really caught the Star Wars bug, so while I’ve heard great things about this year’s version of Disney Infinity and I love the design of the figures, I don’t have the same level of excitement that I got last year when they added Marvel characters to the toys-to-life juggernaut. If you read my review of either the Disney Infinity 2.0 starter pack last year, as well as the subsequent reviews of both the Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy play sets, you’ll know I’m firmly in the second camp. Some enjoy the freedom of creating their own play sets and playing the creations of others, while others prefer a more traditionally structured video game experience found in the game’s play set offerings. Disney Infinity is a lot of different things to a lot of different people.