Parents' Ultimate Guide to Support our work! Corona Column 3 Use these free activities to help kids explore our planet, learn about global challenges, think of solutions, and take action. Kid reviews for Skylanders Giants. Common Sense says Exciting action adventure with toys scanned into game. Based on our expert review. Based on 5 reviews. Based on 29 reviews. Add your rating.
Parents say 5 Kids say Kid, 12 years old August 27, Skylanders Giants is the second Skylanders video game, and like the others, I love it! In this one, Kaos is on a mission to recover the Iron First of Arkus, and since you are the good guys and he is the bad guy, you must stop him! But seriously, not a single person plays children's video games for story! Violence: All really cartoon.
You use the Skylanders, whimsical monsters, on their quest to stop Kaos, who, as I said earlier, is the evil villain, and each of the Skylanders can use elemental attacks like Air, Life, Tech, and Undead to defeat robots, monsters, and huge insects. In one sequence, you fire cartoon projectiles at hostiles, resulting in explosions mild and comic yelps.
This title contains: Ease of Play. This review Helped me decide 1. Had useful details 1. Read my mind 1. Report this review. Kid, 11 years old April 21, Instant classic I've loved Skylanders ever since I was about 4 years old.
And in my opinion, this is the strongest of them all. Helped me decide. Had useful details. Read my mind. Teen, 17 years old Written by Njianga Dhermuherata March 5, Expensive game not worth it Cartoonish violence. Makes parents pay a large investment on the toys. The gameplay is decent but easily gets old. The graphics were average. Music gets old quickly. Battle mode saves it from a one-star rating.
Kid, 10 years old November 26, It is the best game sequel to Skylanders Spyro's Adventure. I am a HUGE fan of the series. Actual price may vary. See retailer for details. Skylanders Giants Wii U Available now.
LightCore Skylanders feature additional in-game benefits, and require no batteries! Brand New Skylanders : New Skylanders join the adventure in Skylanders Giants each equipped with their own unique personality, powers, and abilities that kids are sure to love! Speaking to him it's clear that each has Skylander had care and attention lavished on it. View Iframe URL. That much you can tell from picking up and holding a Skylanders Giant figurine. Not only does each have a satisfying mass to it, but it's clear there are more materials and paint effects used here than in other toy lines of a similar price.
But of course there is more to the figures than real-world imaginative play. The real genius is the moment you place the figure on the portal peripheral that comes with the game. Watching my kids as they placed each of the three characters in the Starter Pack characters Treerex, series 2 Cynder and newcomer Jet-Vac on the portal I could see the connection between the toy and the videogame was a real success.
This is what kids love about the game — that the toy figure represents and remembers their time in the game, and can be carried around with them on weekends and school days. A big part of the success of the portal's "Magic Moment" — when the figures enter the game — is the sound work from Dan Neil.
Along with a full orchestral score from the Hans Zimmer stable, he has created treatments and voice work that really bring the game to life. In fact playing the game with a certain figure on the portal entirely changes not only how it sounds but the voice work and dialogue. You see, each figure now has its own voice actor that grants each one more personality. Some players of Skylanders may complain that in the transition from the "Skylish" gobbledygook of the original to the full voices of Giants some of the actors have changed, but this seems to be a small price to pay for the level of audio characterization that is going on here.
In fact I wouldn't be surprised if future Skylanders toys started to include RFID-powered sound effects — just remember you heard it here first if that does happen. Once in the game the Skylanders in Giants now match the physical figures much more closely. In Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure the match was close but not perfect, but in Giants the differences are imperceptible.
The re-released Series 2 figures not only offer a way to grant new upgrade powers to the old characters but also to bring their design quality up to that of the newcomers.
Paul Yan is the man behind the figures' in-game movement and acting. He and his team have done a masterly job of translating the physical and audio character into motion and movement. From Treerex's lumbering gait to the flighty motions of Jet-Vac to Cynder's cat-like prowling, the game bristles with life.
Beyond this increase in production values and continued attention to detail the obvious excitement to my kids were the giants — and what new stuff they can do in the game. Whereas previously you needed bombs to get through certain doors, you can now bash through them with a giant. They can also jump through holes in the ground to access new areas, and have all sorts of impressive attacks and abilities.
This brings up the thorny issue of how many figures you need to see all the game that exists on the disc. This is more positive than last time round.
While there are still areas that can only be accessed by certain types of Skylanders, requiring one of each of the eight elements to see it all, you can use your original figures that are fully supported in the game to access these. This means that with a modest set of original Skylanders and the Giants Portal Owners Pack — which avoids you re-buying a portal if you already have one — you can access everything in the game.
Equally thorny were the inclusion of "Soul Gem" pop-up videos in the game advertising other Skylanders, and initiating no end of pestering in our household.
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