Product Description:
Skylanders Giants Portal Owners Pack Includes: Video Game, Skylanders Figure, Character Collection Poster, Sticker Sheet with Secret Code and Trading Card
Product Details:
- Only Purchase this pack if you already own Skylanders Spyro's Adventure
Customer Reviews:
Skip this...You're better off with the Starter pack By Y. Garcia
Okay, needless to say, the game is great! It'll keep you and the kids entertained for hours.
However, if you plan on collecting all the characters like I did for The first Skylanders game; you'll be disapointed if you buy the Portal Owners pack. First off you only get the disk and one Giant (Tree-Rex) character (boo, hiss, boo!) If you spend an extra $15 bucks and get the starter pack you get the disk, and one Giant (Tree-Rex) and two regular sized characters (Jet Vac & Cynder) *$11.99 each sold separately plus an extra portal of power.
Lets see (for you collectors) the extra two characters you get with the Starter pack run about $12 bucks each separately. Pay an extra $15 bucks on the starter pack, save yourself approximately $9 and the hassle of collecting these two separately. Plus you'll have an extra portal of power in case yours craps out on you. The Starter Pack is the better deal!
Once again, the previous owners of a great game, get screwed over again. More money for less stuff??? Because that's how it works in the long run.Another Skylands adventure By Andrew Gray
Last year saw a surprising hit in video games, Skylanders Spyro's Adventure. It became a virtual juggernaut with individual characters flying off store shelves (and subsequently appearing on 3rd-party sites such as EBay). When I first learned about Skylanders I quickly dismissed it as another kids game. However, when I actually sat down and played it, I felt like a kid again and enjoyed every minute of it. When I heard there would be a sequel called Skylander Giants, I was curious if Toys for Bob could catch lightning in a bottle twice. The answer can be found below.
For those who have heard about Skylanders but aren't exactly sure what it is, let me give a brief overview. As a Skylander, you are entrusted to protect the people of the Skylands. To protect them, you have an assortment of different Skylanders to help you. There are eight elements that the characters can belong to - Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Life, Magic, Tech, and Undead. Each element has areas throughout the game that those specific characters are stronger in, and also secret areas that only that type of character can access.
The story in Skylander Giants is fairly similar to the original game - stopping the evil lord Kaos before he can destroy the Skylands. To do this, the player travels to a variety of locations via Cap'n Flynn's flying boat. Within Syklander Giants there's a solid assortment of levels scattered throughout the game, where you can expect to see anything from a Pirate Cove to a water-filled canyon and many things in between. Each level can be beaten by simply going straight through, which is obviously for the younger audience that the game is geared towards. That said, for those players that like to explore and do everything (read older players), there are many hidden areas to discover. These hidden areas have an variety of puzzles that lead to anything from treasure chests, scrolls (that add to the lore of the Skylands), Soul Gems (that make characters more powerful), to hats. Yes, I said hats. Finding, and equipping, hats can add to elemental damage, speed, armor rating, critical hit chance, etc. They really are worth seeking out.
Continuing on, the real magic behind the Skylanders series is, and always will be, the characters. Each element has one giant Skylander, four regular figures, and a lightcore figure. Each character comes with a card (a sort of trading card if you will) that shows their respective stats - Damage, Armor, Speed, and Luck. To use a character, you simply put it on the Portal of Power and it magically appears in the game. The characters can be purchased individually or in packs of three, and follow the same process that Activision employed last year by releasing them in waves. The little kid in me wants to collect them all, but the little kid in me is also amazed at how the characters appear in the game after being placed on the Portal. There is something magical about holding the figure and then using that likeness in the game.
On the surface, Skylanders is a kids game - it's marketed towards kids and the figures are obviously made to draw them in. But don't dismiss this game as merely a kids title. At its depth, Skylanders is an engaging role-playing game. Each individual Skylander can be levelled up to Level 15 and you can pick certain paths for each Skylander (which are usually either offensive or defensive in nature). For many, there is a certain strategy in not leveling up all your characters purely offensively. It's smart to have some of each in creating a balanced team.
One fantastic addition to Skylander Giants over the original title is a min-game called `Skystones'. To obtain more cards you can either purchase them in-game with gold that you find throughout the levels, or you can get cards by beating specific Skystone players that you encounter during the story. The playing board is 3×3 but some squares can have certain requirements (for example: only using a fire card or else the block become invalid). Skystones creates an interesting diversion from the normal gameplay that you can spend as little or as much time as you want on it.
Skylander Giants follows the same formula as the previous installment of the game, but that's not a bad thing in this case. I enjoyed the first game, and this one is no different. The magic of the characters appearing in-game has yet to get old and the continuous addition of new characters ensures that there are always new challenges to do. In addition, all of the Skylanders from the first game will work with the new one, with even more options. Even as an adult gamer, I still find Skylander Giants remarkably fun. If you have ever been curious about it, or have a young gamer in your life, take a long hard look at this game. Hopefully you will find it as magical as I do.Perfect By Mechante
Works great, My son loves the new game. All the original skylander figures still work on the portal. Very happy.
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