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Preview  Mickey Mouse
- By Lander Clinton

To compliment the "Resident Evil" franchise coming to the GameCube, Capcom is teaming up with Nintendo to bring us... Mickey Mouse! They should go easy on the programmers and just combine the two. Imagine Mickey having to fight zombified Goofy and you’d get an idea of my sick, twisted mind.

Anyway, little is known about this game outside of the initial footage shown at E3 last May. From the early footage, we know Mickey is in a richly detailed house where every object he touches evokes a cartoon elasticity. Uh oh, better dumb it down for people still stuck in Capcom’s other game, “Magical Tetris Challenge featuring Mickey.” Game look good, things go boing. It also looks like Mickey will have magical powers like he did in the "Fantasia" segment, "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice." Mickey can make objects come to life and dance around.Other than that, Capcom hasn’t revealed much about the game and was unwilling to give us further information as of this writing. Still, this game may work if it is more than a generic 3D platformer. On that note, I think it would be beneficial if Mickey got back to why people of all ages loved him in the first place, instead of the overly innocent, cutesy character he and other Disney characters have been relegated to being for the past several decades. When you watch Disney cartoons from the 1930s and 40s, Mickey and company can get mad at each other! A concept foreign to today’s endeavors. Those cartoons were more akin to Warner Bros. cartoons, except grounded in reality. Snowballs, not cannonballs, would hit Mickey in the face, but the result was the same— he got pissed!

If Mickey just has to run from room to room collecting tokens so he can open more rooms with tokens in them, it won’t be worth much more than a rental- look how Donkey Kong 64 turned out... Here's hoping that Capcom really writes a story for this and has many humorous incidents along the way to make Mickey essential to the game and not just a licensed character in a platform game.

- 11.12.2001