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Skylanders: Swap Force

2013 · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation 4 · Wii · Wii U · Xbox 360 · Xbox One · Platform · Role-playing (RPG) · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

79IGDB player score
50 ratings

About this game

Skylanders: Swap Force is a platformer video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision. It is the third main game in the Skylanders video game and toy franchise, following 2012's Skylanders: Giants, which was a direct sequel to 2011's Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (the spin-off of The Legend of Spyro series). It is the game before Skylanders: Trap Team and features the voices of John DiMaggio, Jess Harnell, Audrey Wasilewski, Richard Tatum, David Sobolov, Josh Keaton, Keythe Farley, Dave Wittenberg, Joey Camen, Gregg Berger, Troy Baker and Robin Atkin Downes. It is the first Skylanders game to be released in North America before other regions, unlike the previous two games where Australia got the installments first. It is also the first Skylanders game not to be owned by Vivendi.

The story begins with Master Eon introducing the player to the world of Skylands as well as its protectors, the Skylanders. The veteran Portal Master then reveals the backstory of a special group of Skylanders known as the SWAP Force, who protected the Cloudbreak Islands and its magical volcano that regenerates the magic in all of Skylands every one hundred years. During an epic battle against a swarm of Fire Vipers summoned by a dark figure, the SWAP Force were caught in the eruption of the magic volcano, which granted them the ability to swap halves, but in the process banished them to Earth. In the present, Flynn is on vacation at the Cloudbreak Islands to see its next one hundredth eruption. He is encountered by Tessa, a fox girl riding on a large bird named Whiskers, and thrust into another adventure when Kaos ordered a group of Greebles to attack Tessa's village before the volcano celebration...

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Game facts

Release date

Oct 13, 2013

Developer

Vicarious Visions

Publisher

Activision

Platforms

PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Genres

Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure

Themes

Action, Fantasy

Game modes

Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Franchise

Spyro the Dragon, Skylanders

Perspective

Third person

Critic score

83 / 100 (15 reviews)

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Game data and artwork via IGDB.

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