Activision ditches the Spyro moniker but keeps the fun intact Skylanders was one of the biggest surprises of 2011. Pretty much everyone expected it to be a cheap cash-in of 90s nostalgia to sell toys to unsuspecting kids -- and boy, were we wrong.

Brings back memories from the first Spyro game. Great 3d platformer and i had so much fun with it. As others might have mentioned beware that this item is just the game and the giant figure, there is NO portal. For that you would need the starter pack edition.

Gather around children and I shall tell you a tale of the olden days. In that magical far off time, there existed these wonderful, exciting places called "arcades". Here cool looking youths and spotty teens would gather to play the latest video games, placing their little collection of 10ps (and, as...

Spyro and his Skylanders friends are joined by Giants this time around, but is the adventure as fun as the first time around?

+ New abilities; + Raised level cap; + Giants are a nice addition; + Accessible

- We've seen most of this before; - At times blurry graphics; - Framerate issues

I found this game, and most Skylander games fun and entertaining! I did buy the new one for the PS4 but then stopped playing it. The main reason why was, when I originally got my Skylanders game, the one before this one, I found myself trying to collect every single Skylander.

If you have a child, and that child liked 'Skylanders', they will also like 'Skylanders Giants', as it's virtually the same game with some minor improvements. As the adult buying all the 'Skylanders' figures, you might be less than thrilled that there are now even more expensive toys to buy.

The greatest trick Activision ever pulled was convincing the world that on-disc downloadable content wasn't such a bad idea after all. It turns out the act of locking away characters and levels is perfectly acceptable as long as you bung in a free toy.

Spyro has some new (very big) friends, and they're all stepping up onto the power portal and onto your..

I prefer the 3ds version over ps3 version.

It's Tuesday afternoon and I'm sitting in front of the TV, fighting giant robots as a vacuum cleaner-armed eagle, my brother, Mondo, is sitting next to me, smashing through stone walls that I would otherwise need to blow up, playing as an enormous pun: Tree Rex.