The game begins with a village in Skylands being ravaged by a massive tornado. In addition to the standard character figures that are available for purchase, there are also limited edition Gold, Silver, Crystal, Chrome, and Glow-in-the-Dark versions of certain characters. With two players, only one player needs to be controlling a Skylander of the correct element. Special Elemental Gates require a Skylander with the corresponding element to pass through. The player can also find hats for the characters, which further affect statistics. Each character has specialized statistics in areas such as health and speed. The "Starter Pack" has three characters to start with – Spyro, Trigger Happy, and Gill Grunt. When the character figurines are placed on the "Portal of Power" peripheral, they appear in the game. The 8 elements are Magic, Water, Tech, Fire, Earth, Life, Air, and Undead, with four Skylanders for each element. There are 32 standard characters and 8 different elements under which characters are classified. Once back in their home world, the skylanders embark on a fantastical journey where they will explore mythical lands, battle menacing, outlandish creatures, collect treasures, and solve challenging puzzles as a part of the quest to save their world. Due to the lack of magic in the human world, the skylanders are petrified, and only the players of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure can get them back into their world. These heroes are the protectors of an amazing, mysterious world, but they have been ejected from their world by the sinister Dark Portal Master known as Kaos, and now, they are frozen and shrunken down on earth as toys. Players take on the role of a Portal Master, who can control over 30 different Skylanders, including the purple dragon, Spyro, by placing their figurines on the Portal of Power. Unlike the console versions, the starter pack for the 3DS version comes with the Skylanders Ignitor, Stealth Elf, and Dark Spyro. This version of the game is set in a different realm in Skylands called the Radiant Isles, and a different force of darkness is faced under the command of Hektore. Unlike other versions, characters can make a jump, and a double jump. They have to defeat enemies, and get clocks in the level to get more time to ward off the chasing enemy. Whenever the player finds a crystal, an enemy awakens and a time limit starts. Each level is littered with crystals, obtained by going towards the end of the level, or by completing a variety of tasks, such as defeating a certain number of enemies, or finding items. Players have to complete levels by gathering crystals, which let them unlock more levels. This version of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is more of an action platformer than its console counterparts.
A direct sequel, Skylanders: Giants, was released in 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and Wii U. As of March 31, 2012, Activision has sold over 30 million Skylanders toys, and sales were expected to exceed $500 million by the end of the year. Īctivision announced that as of June 3, 2012, the game had been the top-selling console and handheld video game worldwide for 2012. For Japan, it was released on July 12, 2013, where it was published by Square Enix, for the Wii, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.
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It was released in October 2011 for North America, Europe, and Australia for Microsoft Windows and OS X, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. It is a 3D action-adventure platform game that is played along with toy figures that interact with it through a "Portal of Power", that reads their tag through NFC and features the voices of Josh Keaton, Darin De Paul, Dave Wittenberg, Keythe Farley, Audrey Wasilewski, Joey Camen and Kevin Michael Richardson. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is the first video game in the Skylanders series.