It’s not bad by any means, but as far as action RPG’s go, I found it to be a little plain. The actual game could use a little more ingenuity though. It also loads up the character information quickly, so it only takes a few seconds to switch between two Skylanders. Switching between characters is as easy as taking one off and putting another on and the game automatically pauses when you remove a character. The Portal of Power accessory plugs into your console like a standard controller, and my Xbox 360 had no issue detecting it. I think giving kids a reason to play with the toys outside of the game wouldn’t be a bad idea, but their mobility is akin to a Happy Meal toy, which feels a little cheap in comparison to how good they look. My only real complaint is that the figures are stationary, they have no moving parts, which makes them a little plain by modern toy standards. So if you’re into toy collecting, you might dig this too. Then there are 34 additional characters, with individual character packs and a few sets, along with exclusive store figures. The starter comes with Spyro, Gill Grunt, and Trigger Happy. The toys are pretty detailed, well painted, and overall I love most of the character designs I’ve seen. As you play the game and level up your character, those stats carry over to the toy itself, so you could then bring the toy over to a friend’s house, plop it down on his portal, and not lose a thing. When you boot the game up for the first time, you’re prompted to place one of the figures on the Portal of Power, which then reads information from the figure’s base and tells the game which character you’re currently using.
When you pick up the Starter pack for Skylanders, you get the game, the Portal of Power base that plugs into your console, and three action figures.
The game itself isn’t what I’d label great, but I’m pretty surprised nobody has come up with this concept before now.
But the more I continued to play Skylanders, the more I found myself genuinely impressed with the concept. So inviting more plastic toys into your home for video games might not seem like a great idea. I think we’ve all been burned a time or two by plastic peripherals that plug into a video game system, and most of those gadgets have come from games published by Activision, the same publisher behind Skylanders. It’d be easy to pass Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure off as a gimmick.
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