Spyro: Year of the Dragon

Spyro: Year of the Dragon is an adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and released in 2000. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the fourth of 53 entries we hold in the Spyro the Dragon series. It arrived 11 months after Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!. The next entry was Spyro: Season of Ice in 2001. Its critic score of 55 is 13 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Spyro Reignited Trilogy at 84.

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Spyro: Year of the Dragon holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 17 points below the year average. Players rate it 68, 13 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

The main story runs about 4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 6.7 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon launched on 10 October 2000, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition.

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