Warren Spector, lead developer on the new game Epic Mickey. Out November 30, the game attempts to capture both sides of the seminal animated rodent.

Spector, who is adored by hardcore gamers for creating the dark cyberpunk franchise Deus Ex, may seem like an odd choice to helm a Disney game (for the kid-friendly Wii console, no less). “But I wasn’t always a trench-coat-and-sunglasses kind of guy,” he says. “I used to be an animation junkie.” He wrote his master’s thesis on Looney Tunes characters and created a tabletop role-playing game based on the crazy physics of cartoons. Now he’s using his encyclopedic knowledge of animation history to take Disney’s flagship character back to his roots.

In Epic Mickey, players control the titular mouse as he fights his way through a freaky underworld inhabited by forgotten Disney characters like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a Mickey precursor from the silent era, and the Gremlins, stars of a scrapped 1940s feature. Instead of standard videogame weapons, Mickey is armed with ink and paint thinner. He can choose to behave like the good guy of his mature years or the mischievous scamp of his youth. Our choice? Pucker up, Minnie.

Authors: David Kushner

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