Making a good kids’ game is hard. By the time your skills are refined enough to deliver a solid experience you’re out of touch with your audience. It’s a strange crux to face, but the folks at Avalanche software stared it down and delivered a very solid experience for the minors. Toy Story 3: The Video Game straddles the line between story-driven and purely experiential gameplay to offer the best of both worlds for kids who want a lot from their games.
Video games haven’t really been the best friends to toys. Ever since they started filling in the gaps between a kid’s reality and imagination toys just haven’t seemed as much fun. Toy Story 3 looks to mend that strained relationship between pull-strings and pixels by offering a really unique gameplay mode that acts less like a video game and more like a playset. We got a hands-on preview with Disney Interactive’s summer tie-in game and were pleasantly impressed with what it had to offer.


