Last year’s release of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure surprised everyone with its ridiculously successful fusion of toys and video games. With this success it was inevitable that Activision would make a sequel, and here we are one year later with Skylanders: Giants. Taking the best parts of the first game and expanding them to new heights, Giants is everything you’d want in a sequel and is possibly this generation’s Pokemon.
Collecting tiny toy figurines was also fun in and of itself, but now those tiny toy figurines come to life in a pretty sweet video game! Skylanders: Giants completely surpassed my expectations. I thought the game would be a quick cash-in for the popular series, with nothing more than additional levels and toys to spend money on. But the game is actually a full-fledged sequel, complete with said new levels and story, as well as additional game moves, an semi-deep leveling system, charming visuals, and a rather high replay value. If you’ve got the money, you need to check this one out. It’s going to be big :p
Read my full review of the game here.
Laters,
Jsick
