Don Gamers

Toy Story 3 I wish I’d had the Toy Story 3 game when I was a kid. Back then I hardly had any good cooperative games to play with my siblings, and playing games with my parents usually amounted to me taking it easy on them so they wouldn’t quit.

But what makes Toy Story 3 even more special than its fun cooperative story is that it actually makes creative use of its license. Movie tie-ins have a reputation for being awful, but developer Avalanche Software has found a good way to use the Toy Story name without just creating another rehash of the movie’s plot. Instead TS3 has both a decent, story-driven game that touches upon some highlights from the film, as well as an inventive open world game called Toy Box mode.

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The story mode is still fun and worthwhile, but Toy Box is really the selling point for the game. It’s essentially an open world quest-driven game where you play as the Sheriff of a toy town, using Woody, Buzz, or Jessie. And since it doesn’t follow the movie’s plot, the entire world is based around the idea of how the toys perceive their environment when they’re being played with. The result is a mode that still has all the familiar faces that you’d expect from the film franchise, but that introduces a host of gameplay elements that fall well outside what a simple follow-the-film game would allow.

The quests in Toy Box are a little simple for most adults (though still fun), but what they’re really good at is introducing the various ways you can interact with the world. Each new mechanic, instead of being told through a standard tutorial, is introduced in a quirky quest, making learning a whole lot more fun than usual. And even when the quests were far too easy I still found myself becoming addicted, as TS3′s quest lines are structured in such a way that you’ll finish one only to open up several more, making it easy to get into that “just one more” mentality.

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But while Toy Box can be a really guided experience if that’s how you want to play it, what I appreciate is how it really tries to put something in there for everyone. Kids, or people who just don’t care about doing quests, can spend time decorating and customizing their town or citizens – right down to where they want buildings to be. Additionally, players also get the ability to do a host of other fun things like go on races, do trick courses with toy cars, or even just enlarge and shrink things in the world with piles of goo. The Toy Box always has something for players to do on a whim, encouraging kids and adults alike to just, well, play. After all, when we were kids our playtime wasn’t always structured, right? Toy Box really gives you a chance to just let your imagination take you to silly places.

TOY STORY 3 PC Game System Requirements

OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3/ Vista, Win7 CPU: 2.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4, or 3000+AMD or equivalent processor, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Memory: 1 GB or more of system RAMVideo Memory:128 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card supporting Shaders 2.0 (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 or better, ATI Radeon 9600 or better)HDD: 6GB uncompressed hard drive space