Further Details On AT-ATs In Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars

There has been a ton of updates from GameInformer on Disney Infinity 3.0 and today’s update is focused on the Star Wars playsets which are being created by StudioGobo and talked about some the new features including AT-ATs.

Here are a few highlights:

Both Death Stars will need to be blown up during trench runs, Star Destroyers will be battled in space, and you will ride a Bantha from the bars of Mos Eisley to the dance floor of Jabba’s palace. You will also explore the ice world of Hoth and battle the four-legged AT-ATs in what ended up being our favorite showcase of available activities in Disney Infinity’s take on Star Wars.

There looks to be plenty of Hoth styled vehicles

We’ve battled two and four-legged vehicles on the snowy world of Hoth on many occasions, but for the first time, AT-ATs can turn. It may sound like an insignificant bullet point, but there’s a large system in place that allows the robotic creatures to move realistically, and not just in a straight line. Technical director Jim Callen explained the surprisingly in-depth process to us saying, “Broadly speaking, you actually physically model a character, making joints which have weight and a constraint around them on how far they can move. Then you work out how much force you would need to apply down a particular leg to make the body stand up.” This means AT-ATs and AT-STs can correct themselves and turn when walking over any terrain. If an AT-ST or AT-AT gets rocked and almost falls over, for example, it can adjust its balance and recover.

It looks like they are working on a few different ways of doing missions:

Technical prowess is fantastic, but battling the AT-AT goes deeper than just marveling at its physics. While showing us how to defeat an AT-AT, game and art director Mike Thompson demonstrated a few different ways to take down the lumbering vehicles. You can tie them up with a tow rope in a Snowspeeder, take them out piece by piece by climbing their legs in a battle inspired by Shadow of the Colossus, or, take control of them yourself. Thompson landed a Snowspeeder on top of the AT-AT and broke apart its back to reveal a giant controller with buttons to stand on to direct its movement and fire its weapons. After pointing the AT-AT in a few different directions, Thompson surprised us by removing the controller from the AT-AT’s back and carrying it far enough away where he had full view of the walking tank. He dropped the controls on the ground and started controlling the AT-AT remotely by standing on the buttons, just as he had before.

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