The original Skylanders were the Giants, who united their powers to defeat the Arkeyan King ten thousand years ago.

For instance this may involve pulling two floating islands together, or lifting walls of logs.

Giants are required at certain moments to complete feats of strength that provide access to the next level in the game world. They can also destroy crates, Chompies, and other objects that may contain coins just by walking on them.Īn important ability only used by the Giants is the Feats of Strength.

While normal Skylanders can only destroy rocks with the help of bombs or cannons, Giants can do so with their bare hands without the use of powerups. SkyLanders: Giants is the greatest combination of video game and real-world toys ever seen.Giants wield great strength, giving them the ability to lift, throw, and destroy trees, towers, rocks, and other things that normal Skylanders can't destroy. Some of these mini-games can interact with mobile devices as controller. Players also get to try their hand at a selection of mini games, which are used to aid your progress through the main game story. Battle mode enables player to go head-to-head with their friends, and new Hero Challenges encourage you to collect and enable you to upgrade every character - and you'll need to if you want to take on the game in Nightmare Mode - a difficulty level only open to you when you complete it on one of the three standard levels. Your favourite characters get a Wow Pow upgrade to put them on a par with the Giants.Īlong with the new characters, there are new challenges, and a thrilling new story in this exciting new game. You can use this to swap your characters out during a level, to use each one's different powers to best advantage to help you win.Įvery one of the characters from the previous game can be imported in to Giants, along with players' stats, upgrades and customisations. The physical toys have new features - place them on the Portal of Power and they appear in the game. And it's not just their bodies that are oversized, their powers are bigger and more impressive too. As the name suggests, some of them are bigger in both physical and virtual versions than the original SkyLanders cast. Taking place in a beautiful 3D world, SkyLanders: Giants brings more than 40 new characters to the series. The Giants were banished to Earth, but now the SkyLands need them to fight this new threat. The SkyLands are under threat from KAOS and the robot army, so it is time to bring back the Giants: mythical SkyLanders who fought fought epic battles long ago in history. Now expanded and extended to include a host of other playable and non-playable characters, and to interface with a hugely popular line of toy figures. Skylanders is the modern descendent of the once popular Spyro series of games.

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