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"Epic Mickey 3 was planned alongside the first and second instalments, it has been revealed. Designer Warren Spector discussed his reasons for wanting a second Epic Mickey, saying that he plans all his projects as three games, each introducing their own stories and mechanics.   &amp;quot;I assume every game developer has a process they go through when they start a new project, and mine involves a couple of things,&amp;quot; he told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;One is [that] there are seven questions I ask myself and if I can&amp;#039;t answer them I don&amp;#039;t do it, and that&amp;#039;s posted on my blog if you&amp;#039;re curious. But the other is, I always plan out at least three games. &amp;quot;I plan out a three-game story arc, and I plan out a three-game, sort of, gameplay arc, what am I going to introduce in each game. I don&amp;#039;t do that because I actually expect to do those games, I do it because my games take about three years to make and I need to make sure I&amp;#039;m willing to put in as many as ten years of my life on something.&amp;quot;  He continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s got to be a compelling enough world and compelling enough characters that I can do that. And so before we started with the first one I had four stories actually. At the high level, sort of thought out, I did this for Deus Ex too. I knew what the first three games were going to be before we started the first one.&amp;quot; Spector added that songs and co-op multiplayer for the second game were planned from the start, while an &amp;quot;idea&amp;quot; for the third has already been established. &amp;quot;For example, I knew we were going to do some songs in the second game and I knew we were going to do two player co-op multiplayer, I just knew that before we started the first game. And have an idea that if we&amp;#039;re lucky enough to do a third one what we&amp;#039;re going to do.  &amp;quot;So I already had an idea of what&amp;#039;s the next step, you know, before we started, so I&amp;#039;m always incentivised to do it.&amp;quot; Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two will offer a number of new features, including co-operative play, camera fixes, musical elements and permanent choice-driven gameplay. It will be available on Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac later this year. A separate 3DS tie-in is also in the works. Watch a trailer for Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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