Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is the first video game in the Skylanders series. It is a video game that is played along with toy figures that interact with it through a "Portal of Power", that reads their tag…
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is an adventure developed by Toys for Bob, released 13 October 2011 on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360.
What Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is an adventure game developed by Toys for Bob and released in 2011. It was published by Activision. It is available on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Lux Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is set around Spyro and his Skylander friends who have to defeat Kaos, the evil Portal Master. The game is played as a third-person action game and each character has different abilities. The characters are divided into eight groups (classes) tied to the eight elements that are in the game: air, water, earth, tech, undead, magic, fire, and life, with four characters in each element. Each character has two primary attacks, both of which can be upgraded by using coins collected in the game. Experience also leads to new abilities, also unlocked by discovering certain hats, and eventually a tertiary attack. Among the line of toys there are randomly inserted Gold, Platinum and Pearl…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Spyro the Dragon series
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is the 36th of 53 entries we hold in the Spyro the Dragon series. It arrived 3 years after Spyro the Dragon: Wings of Fury. The next entry was Skylanders: Cloud Patrol in 2012. Its critic score of 82 is 14 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Spyro Reignited Trilogy at 84.
How it was received
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Players rate it 75, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure launched on 13 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Shadow of the Colossus (2011). All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Shadow of the Colossus (2011).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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