Disney Plans ‘Fantasia’ Game for Xbox (Video)
11 views - published on June 4th, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney worldDisney is branch a groundbreaking 73-year-old charcterised underline film Fantasia into a video game, yet with strain from exemplary rockers and contemporary artists.
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The game, Fantasia: Music Evolved, is scheduled for recover subsequent year on Microsoft’s arriving Xbox One and a Xbox 360 platforms.
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Using Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect system, players call their arms, pull a palms of their hands in several directions and generally pierce to a strain in an bid to indeed remix songs. Onscreen, all that relocating around is also permitting them to try and change their visible environments.
The diversion will come with some-more than dual dozen songs, any including a strange chronicle and remixes that players can remix serve in mixed ways by their physique gestures.
The 5 songs Disney announced Tuesday are “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen; “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars; “Settle Down” by Kimbra; “Levels” by Avicii; and “Some Nights” by Fun.
Disney didn’t divulge a financial arrangements it has with a artists. In a curtsy to a strange Fantasia, that facilities strain by Bach, Tchaikovsky and more, some exemplary strain will also make an appearance.
The diversion was grown over dual years by Harmonix, a association behind games like Dance Central and Rock Band, and will embody a ability for players to share a remixed versions of songs with others. It’s a underline that insiders contend Disney worked tough on, given it had to navigate wily chartering issues.
“It lets we be partial of a artistic routine of a song. Once we put so most appetite into creation it yours, we know you’ll wish to share it,” says John Drake, executive of code government for Harmonix. “Disney, being a overwhelming media partner they are, cumulative a really good rights portfolio.”
While a film Fantasia starred Mickey Mouse as an neophyte to magician Yen Sid, insiders contend a iconic animation impression isn’t a primary concentration of a video game, as he is in Epic Mickey, a diversion from Junction Point Studios that also uses Yen Sid as a tract point. Disney recently shut down Junction Point after softening sales of Epic Mickey.
Disney’s tip coronet have been putting vigour on a conglomerate’s interactive section to spin a profit. In a mercantile second quarter, Disney’s interactive shred mislaid $54 million on $194 million revenue. The section is creation a large gamble on Disney Infinity, a high-tech hybrid of a normal movement figure and a video diversion that is due Aug. 18.
The Fantasia film initial had a singular recover in 1940, afterwards several wider releases by a years. It has warranted $76.4 million worldwide during a box office. A sequel, Fantasia 2000, was expelled in 1999 and warranted $60.7 million worldwide.
See a trailer for Fantasia: Music Evolved below.