The features from the game
Interaction Figures – Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure offers over 30 characters to bring out the kid in everyone. It’s all about choice, and each interaction figure has their own unique and expressive personality, powers and abilities which provide distinct advantages and skill sets for various levels, obstacles and enemies. They are “Toys With Brains” in that each toy/character remembers the player’s shared experiences. Achievements and leveled up capabilities earned in the game are embedded inside the toy and travel with it. Wherever the toy goes, its experiences go with it. This allows players to personally customize and powerup their characters, as well as take their interaction figures on-the-go to bring them to life on a friend’s ‘Portal of Power’ for co-op play and player-versus-player arena battles.
Categories, Strategy & Collectability – Interaction figures are classified by element types (
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Life, Undead, Magic, and Tech) and each has their own challenges that are unlocked as more characters are collected. Players can collect and then strategically select their favorite characters within the different element types to go up against certain enemies, obstacles, and puzzles as well as access new areas within the different levels of the game. This element can provide an opportunity for children to learn the basics on strategies and how to approach different situations.
Exploration – As the tale unfolds, players will encounter a variety of vivid environments, each with its own unique look and feel, and each providing different challenges, puzzles, and the discovery of secret areas, rewards and mini-games. (This sounds good )
Portal of Power – The mystical Portal of Power serves as a gateway between our world and the amazing game world, allowing you to ‘Bring Your Toys to Life’ by teleporting real world toys directly into the game for players to control when placed upon the Portal of Power.
Diverse Experiences on Diverse Devices – While the toys can be used with gaming consoles to play the disc based game, completely different gaming experiences await them on the mobile app and inside the Web World, each of which were designed specifically for those platforms. The result is a remarkable number of different gaming experiences in one game. It’s not quite what you would call a cloud experience, but the variety is refreshing, and could provide added value, depending on how it’s implemented.
Co-Operative Play – By placing two characters on the Portal of Power at once, players can team up together for cooperative play and drop in and out of each level with as many different interaction figures as they like. Different strategies can come into play as players can select their favorite characters to tag-team against certain obstacles, hazards and/or enemies within the different levels of the game. We love seeing co-op in kids games as it teaches them the basics of teamwork and it can allow you to play along with your kids, or they can play with their friends, depending on the level difficulty.
Player vs. Player – If co-op’s not your thing, and you prefer testing your skills against others, a classic battle mode provides a selection of different game modes and arena maps for players to face off against each other. Each unique arena map contains a variety of obstacles, hazards and power-ups. Players will want to make sure they build up their army of different characters and level them all up to battle their friends on equal ground.