Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two will star Mickey and Oswald and feature full voice-acting. Also, it will be a freaking musical.
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two is coming to Wii (and Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) this fall, according to the Associated Press.
Like the first game, which came out exclusively for Wii in 2010, the game will be developed by Disney superfan Warren Spector and his Austin-based Junction Point Studios and feature a lot of new hooks. The craziest is the fact that the game will feature original songs, written by Jim Dooley and Mike Himelstein, who wrote music and lyrics for the upcoming movie Dorothy of Oz. In addition, there will be voice acting, with Frank Welker providing the voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the misunderstood villain of the first game. It will be the first time Oswald will speak since 1928.
The repeated use of two will also come into play, as the game features drop-in/drop-out co-op, with player one controlling Mickey Mouse and player two controlling Oswald. Mickey will retain his paint and thinner abilities, while Oswald will wield a remote control that alters electricity. Oswald will be controlled by the computer when a second player isn't present.
The game's camera will be improved, with more than 1,000 changes made to the flawed camera system in the original, according to Spector. "We've had a team working on the camera from literally the day we finished the first game. They'll be working on it until the day we ship the second game," he said. "Our goal is that you will not have to touch the manual camera controls even once to play through the main story path of this game."
Epic Mickey 2 will take place in the same Wasteland that was the setting for the first title. Spector teased new locations, such as a more expanded Frontierland, and also said that Mickey will revisit past areas, most of which will be altered by natural disasters that have happened since the first game.
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two is set for release this fall on Wii. There was no mention of the rumored 3DS game or anything about a Wii U version.