Digital Eclipse Is Dropping a Toy Story Game Bundle Right Before Toy Story 5
The timing here is not subtle. Toy Story 5 hits theaters June 19th. Digital Eclipse drops a full Toy Story game collection on October 15th. Disney is going to wring every dollar out of this franchise and honestly? I'm fine with it this time, because the games are actually decent.
What You're Getting
Two separate releases. Toy Story: Retro Roundup and Toy Story 3: Complete Edition. Available on basically everything: PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Individual games are $24.99 each. Physical bundle is $39.99. The math on that is obvious.
Retro Roundup is the nostalgia package. Five games: the original Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue, Toy Story Racer, and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. They also threw in A Bug's Life as a bonus. Standard Digital Eclipse treatment: save-anywhere, rewind, cheats, enhanced visuals, plus behind-the-scenes featurettes and developer interviews.
Toy Story 3: Complete Edition is the one that's actually interesting.
The Toy Story 3 Game Was Legitimately Good
People forget this. IGN gave it a 7.5 when it came out during the Xbox 360/PS3 era. That's not "this exists" territory, that's "this is a real game" territory.
The reason was Toy Box Mode. Open-world sandbox, non-linear missions, playable characters, a western town you could customize. That's a lot of game for what was a movie tie-in. Local co-op story mode too.
The Complete Edition adds 4K and 60fps support and includes previously platform-exclusive content that a lot of people never got to play. That's the actual reason to buy this if you already played it back in the day.
Should You Buy It
Retro Roundup is a nostalgia purchase. The original Toy Story game and Toy Story Racer aren't going to hold up as games. They're going to hold up as memories. The rewind and save-anywhere features will matter. Mike Mika and the Digital Eclipse team have a good track record with this stuff, so the presentation will probably be solid.
Toy Story 3 is the stronger sell. If you've got kids who are going to see the movie and want something to play after, that Toy Box Mode is genuinely good sandbox content. If you played it in 2010, the previously-locked content might be worth the $24.99 just to see what you missed.
The $39.99 physical bundle is the move if you want both. That's a reasonable price for six retro games plus a remastered game with extra content.
Taylor Swift is doing a song for the movie, by the way. No idea what that means for the games. Probably nothing.
Source: Ign