It's a game that uses real-world toys to influence it. Something like the Poke-walker.The initial purchase will net you a copy of the game, a 'Portal' mat, three figures (there's 32 in total), and a few trading cards. Each toy contains a microchip; when the toy is placed on the portal, the portal reads the chip and the character is rendered into the game.
There is one major difference to this game than any other that you have played on the Xbox 360 previously. Your character data, such as your experience points, gold and improved skills, are saved on the microchip in the toy. Each new toy will start at level one, but can progress as far as level ten.
Every character is assigned to one element (i.e. fire, water, magic etc.) and these elements give the characters special powers. Certain types of characters, such as dragons, are represented in each one. Gamers who collect and use more of the same element or type will increase the power and skills of the other characters in that same group. Thhis is tracked by "automatically associating the toy with the portal to which it is first connected"; it sounds a bit like a license agreement.
The toys can be used in friends' games, and Activision have promised that they will be able to cross platforms. You can place two toys side-by-side on a portal to take part in a two-player co-operative game. For those of you who are getting concerned about how much this is going to cost, Activision have assured players that the game can still be completed if you only own one toy.
SPYRO
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TRIGGER HAPPY
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IGNITOR
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GILL GRUNT
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ERUPTOR
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TRAILER
I like the concept, This could be a big money spinner for Activision (who else).
I showed the video to my son, His reaction was "Cool :)".
It's Activision, so i won't be getting it unless their Karma improves.
If I was a young kid, I would totally eat this up. Little toys that store your gamesaves? Love it.
If it didn't have the whole toy thing, i'd get it. Love the spyro games.
Why don't you like the toy part? I think I'm going to get it... you know, for the little kids that come over to my house. (That's secret code for "me"). But I bet my 20 year old daughter, her boyfriend, and all her friends will love it too. Oh yeah, and the actual little kids that really do come over to my house. ;D I'll let you know how it goes once I get it. Have to finish skyrim first you know.
My post was from August. Now i want it, BADLY, i'm waiting for it to come into the shop so i don't have to 'pay' for it.
My friend has it, for her 'kids', i should go over one night with a bottle of red and play some spyro coop.
Oh good. I'm glad to hear you say that. I've seen it in the stores, but my friends that work there (all hard core gamers) kept talking me out of getting it. But I loved spyro from years ago...and this one looks pretty amazing. I just ordered it online.
i've heard nothing but good really, everyone i know who owns one loves it. im glad really, i'd have hated for Spyro to die with a dodgy peripheral ala Tony Hawk
Apparently the game "pushes" the want to unlock more characters quite hard - which I can see being annoying if you have demanding young kids. But every bit of the game makes me want it. Even if it's not "aimed" at adults. :D
At £50 ish though that's literally priced me out, loads of other stuff I'd rather get first for that. If/when it drops I might look at getting it. Considering the packs with the extra little figure/characters in are still like £15 a pop I kinda hoped the starter pack would've dropped already.
it works £7 a character, you get 3 for just over 20bob. I'd want them all ... but i'd be happy with trading with friends, someone told me that you only have to use the figure once to unlock it. If that's true, i could borrow some.
I'd also have to look at the achievements :P
Now look at that top post by me, that's some top production value forum news up there. #) i must have been bored that day ;)
Oh My Gosh...five minutes into the game and I love it already! I know it's going to end up being expensive with all the characters you can buy, but....well... I think I'm worth it. #)
you are! Theres some new stuff coming out in Febuary for it too.
I played a lot last night, but I have to confess that without all the elemental characters it gets a bit frustrating. So I went online (there are none in any of the stores here any more, they've all run out!) to look for some characters. Amazon has them for about $20. No way was I going to pay that much for each character. I finally found a store online that had them for the original price of $9.99. I ordered all they had, which luckily enough was one of each elemental. Theres no need, in my opinion, to buy more than that. As long as you can unlock all the areas.
The game also gets better as you level up and gain more powers. So far I'm very impressed. But I'll have to hide the figures from the little kids because it occurs to me that if you lose the figure you lose everything you've done with it. I wish they had an alternate form of memory storage.
My son got this as a Christmas present and I haven't even considered playing it until now. Must put it on my list must dos! Along with the dozen or so other games :P
Alright folks, I keep eyeing this up.. without the lure of getting it for your kids to play (since I have none!) is this worth it? Part of me thinks, game wise, I could get Rayman and be just as happy. But part of me loves collectibles and the little portal device thing is awesome looking, appealing to the kid in me.
Worth it? Not worth it? :D
Worth it if you plan on getting at least one of each elemental figure...which ends up running up the cost quite a lot. If you don't plan on getting them then don't bother because the game is extremely limited without them.
I have one or two of every elemental and there are three adults in this house that love playing it. When I'm not playing it someone else is. I only just found death online the other day and am waiting for it. Should be here tomorrow. Can't wait!
I guess depending on where you are, figures are only available in limited quantities. It took a lot of searching to find all the ones I have here in the US. I found some online, but I also managed to get some from gamestop because I know people there. They put them aside for me. Otherwise they're sold out in a matter of minutes.
(Trying to think of a place to display them once we're done playing with them...they really are very very cute).
Oh, and once the characters level up and get their special powers it gets a lot more interesting than when you first start out, so give it a chance if you get it....it's kind of lame in the beginning.
Have fun!
+1
I want Terrafin and Stealth Elf. They're supposed to be two of the best
Death finally came in the mail today! Yay! Now I have at least one of all the elements.
Seriously though, I was very lucky to find them. I've had people scouring the stores for me....even in New York City... and NO ONE is carrying these things any more. The only reason I have these (including stealth elf) is because I know people at gamestop and they put them aside for me.
Are they as hard to get in the UK as they are over here?
They're supposed to be coming out with new ones this month. I hope they make enough that they won't sell out and be impossible to find this time.
And as sad as this sounds, I have a bunch of these, but I want ALL of them! I was sitting around with my eight year old last night and figuring out which ones I have left to buy. lol
Ya it's easy to get caught up in a game with collectables like this. I can see more games like this one coming on line in the future......
Can't believe how ridiculously hard it is to fine the extra figures for this! I'm not finished playing through the story yet but once I've done that I'll probably shelve it for a bit, I'll probably get an odd few extra figures for it at some point when they're more accessible though. It's nice to see it'll be supported with future releases too, since paying out for the figures and having no new "content" as far as gameplay goes would've been poor. The adventure packs and the future "Giants" edition for later in the year look like positive things in the mean time.
Three new Skylanders shock, burn and boom into Spyro's Adventure:
Spyro's universe is expanding -- much like ours, but without the physical, philosophical or scientific implications -- with three new characters. Lightning Rod, Zook and Sunburn, the last of which comes toSkylanders in the Dragon's Peak Adventure Pack, are all available now. Lightning Rod and Zook are $7.99 each, and the pack including Sunburn runs $19.99.
Lightning Rod, who we're convinced is modeled after Aladdin's Genie and Robin Williams' beardiness, is an air character whose attacks involve electro-bolts; Sunburn is part dragon, part phoenix, breathes fire and can teleport; and Zook, a life character, carries a bamboo bazooka.
http://www.theitchronicle.com/2012/03/06/three-new-skylanders-shock-burn-and-boom-into-spyros-adventure/ (http://www.theitchronicle.com/2012/03/06/three-new-skylanders-shock-burn-and-boom-into-spyros-adventure/)
Wait, I'm confused. These aren't new....? ???
I did a bit of looking around and found this on Jotstiq. They are pretty up to date with this stuff. Also see the videos and the comments at the end.
http://i.joystiq.com/2012/03/06/three-new-skylanders-shock-burn-and-boom-into-spyros-adventure/ (http://i.joystiq.com/2012/03/06/three-new-skylanders-shock-burn-and-boom-into-spyros-adventure/)
I guess my confusion is because of the poster that I got with the game that lists all the skylanders. Zook, sunburn, and lightning rod are on that poster. I assumed everything on that poster was...maybe not available...but not really considered new since their part of the original set?
There are a lot of them that can't be found but mostly because the stores can't keep up with the demand. I didn't realize they were holding some of them back. What I thought of when they said new was that they were going to come out with something completely not seen before, (like maybe a while new land with giants or something) not just some that were already advertised on the poster that says "collect them all!"
I'm just trying to understand what they mean by "new". I guess that's where my confusion comes in. That would be kind of sneaky if they were holding them back after already advertising them as part of the set, don't you think?
Okay, I figured out my confusion... I think? When I thought of "new" I was thinking of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kv4sueAp_s
I thought all the figures on the poster were already out. I guess they're not? :-\
GameStop testing Skylanders toy trade-in program
GameStops are about to be overrun with toys in an epidemic the likes of which we haven't seen since the late-90s Pokémon figure thing. Pixelitis published what appears to be an internal GameStop document detailing a nascent Skylanders figurine trade-in program being tested at some stores.
Surprisingly, they seem priced by rarity, with harder-to-find figurines reselling for up to $20. Trade-in values range from around $2 to $8. There's currently no information on which stores are participating in the offer, but given the popularity of the game it'll be everywhere soon enough.
I was pleasantly surprised to find these on sale in my local HMV - first shop other than Argos to actually seem to keep in the figures. That said I've lost interest for now, haven't even finished much of the main story with the 3 it comes with. It's one the kids loved when they were over at least.
I picked this up for my wife and I to play together, and it was a major success. It is simple and cute enough to have anyone pick it up and be able to play, but has a little depth in the character leveling to keep it interesting for me. And as a major nerd, I like collecting the little figures. They are difficult to find though. I stopped by a Toys R Us the other day, and their entire display was sold out. I didnt know the game was really that popular. Looks like another cash cow for Activision.
Quote from: Dantespaw on April 07, 2012, 03:29:04 AM
... I didnt know the game was really that popular.
Tell me about it. I actually forgot this even existed until a dozen people I know on Facebook started begging for info on where to get certain figures. And these are friends of mine that have never played a videogame in their life, so it took me a while it piece together they were talking about a videogame.
I actually now have all the characters. I haven't played it in a while, but I'm going to. I really love this game. And my littles love to play with the actual figures....organizing them for me and pretending with them. They don't even play the video game, just the figures. That alone is worth it.