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Santa Monica, CA - February 11, 2011 - Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) announced today the worldwide debut of Skylanders Spyro's Adventure, an entertainment breakthrough for the toy and video game industries. Through an innovative use of technology, the game allows players to transport real-world toys into virtual worlds of adventure through the "Portal of Power." These "toys with brains" can come to life inside the game in connection with multiple gaming platforms, as well as on handheld gaming devices, mobile devices and on the web, remembering achievements and level-ups wherever they go. This marks a wholesale change in the interaction between toys and video games, opening up new possibilities and revenue streams for both industries.

 

"These are more than action figures. They are inter-action figures," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. "By pairing world class character design, world class video game design and world class story telling into one entertainment experience, we've given players a whole new genre that bridges the gap between the real and virtual worlds. From the first time a kid picked up a stick and pretended it was a sword, toys have unlocked kids' imaginations. And how often have you wanted to bring those toys to life, to see them become animated and take them on an adventure? Skylanders Spyro's Adventure does just that."

 

This new interactive experience will make its worldwide debut and be available for demos at the American International Toy Fair (Booth #3055), which takes place February 13 - 16 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

 

Activision brought its gaming expertise together with top Hollywood creative talent to bring Skylanders Spyro's Adventureto life. The game and technology was developed by Activision's Novato, California studio, Toys for Bob, led by creative director and studio head, Paul Reiche. The adventure driven story was penned by two of the Academy Award nominated writers of the original Toy Story movie, Alek Sokolow and Joel Cohen. The result is a line of highly collectible characters, an engaging story, and an immersive interactive entertainment experience.

 

There are many unique and innovative elements to this experience, including:

 

Each Character Has its Own Unique Powers- In addition to the highly collectible design and personalities of the toys themselves, each character has different powers and abilities, opening different experiences inside the game. Players can drop in and out of each level with as many different characters as they like, making each players experience unique.

 

Toys With Brains - Each toy/character remembers the player's shared experiences. Achievements and leveled up capabilities earned in the game are embedded inside the toy and travel with the toy. Wherever the toy goes, its experiences go with it.

 

Portal of Power - The Portal of Power serves as the gateway between our world and the amazing world of the characters in Skylanders Spyro's Adventure.

 

Play With Friends - By placing two characters on the Portal of Power at once, players can team up together for cooperative play, or face off in player versus player battle arenas utilizing their leveled up characters.

 

Diverse Experiences on Diverse Devices - While the toys can be used with gaming consoles to play the disc based game, completely different gaming experiences await them on the mobile app and inside the Web World, each of which were designed specifically for those platforms. The result is a remarkable number of different gaming experiences in one game.

 

To support the launch of the game, Toys "R" Us will join forces with Activision for a global marketing partnership in which stores across the globe will feature several Skylanders Spyro's Adventure exclusives this fall.

 

"We began discussing this concept with Activision and immediately knew merging the world of toys and video games together in Skylanders Spyro's Adventure would capture the imagination of a wide range of consumers, including kids, toy collectors and video game enthusiasts," said Jerry Storch, Chairman and CEO, Toys"R"Us, Inc. "We believe this product line is among the most exciting and unique offerings that will be seen at Toy Fair this year, and we are excited to partner with Activision to bring Skylanders Spyro's AdventuretoToys"R"Us stores this fall."

 

Skylanders Spyro's Adventure lets kids take on the role of a powerful Portal Master, who can control over 30 different characters, including the beloved purple dragon Spyro. Each of these heroes is a protector of an amazing, mysterious world, but they have been ejected from their world by the sinister Portal Master known as Kaos and now they are frozen in our world as toys. Only the players of Skylanders Spyro's Adventure can get them back into their world, by embarking on a fantastical journey where they will explore mythical lands, battle menacing, outlandish creatures, collect treasures, and solve challenging puzzles as a part of the quest to save their world.

 

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It looks to be multiformat, but platforms haven't been announced. It was demoed on Wii.

 

Poor Spyro...

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Give the license back to Insomniac! While your at it give the Crash Bandicoot license back to Naughty Dog!

 

Two of the great platform franchises of the 32bit era are now dead. :(

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I think I speak for everybody when I say F**k off, Activision!

 

Seriously, the original Spyro games on the PS1 were great. This looks nothing like how Spyro should be. The license doesn't need to grow or become mature. Mario didn't need maturing and those games are still stellar so why can't they leave it as it bloody well was?!?! Just Activision killing off another series.

 

I agree they should give the license back to Insomniac. I doubt they'd touch it now but I'd love for them to give it a try again.

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A Naughty Dog Crash Bandicoot would be amazing these days. They'd do SMG quality.....I reckon. :(

 

It should be better than their poor attempt at Tomb Raider.

 

Yes, this is pure bait as I've not played those game (I know nobody with a PS3). I don't even know why the two games are compared as one focuses on shooting and the other focuses on platforming. It's like comparing Mirror's Edge and Halo.

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I think I speak for everybody when I say F**k off, Activision!

 

Seriously, the original Spyro games on the PS1 were great. This looks nothing like how Spyro should be. The license doesn't need to grow or become mature. Mario didn't need maturing and those games are still stellar so why can't they leave it as it bloody well was?!?! Just Activision killing off another series.

 

I agree they should give the license back to Insomniac. I doubt they'd touch it now but I'd love for them to give it a try again.

Insomniac didn't want Spyro anymore. Appearently the creator, whose name I don't remember, explained it was too difficult to create new games when Spyro didn't have any hands to hold guns with. Hence all the minigames in third game.

 

I agree Spyro looks worse than he ever did in any other game after the first three. I love the originals, probably played each a half a dozen to a dozen times, but I know I won't be buying this one.

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It should be better than their poor attempt at Tomb Raider.

 

Yes, this is pure bait as I've not played those game (I know nobody with a PS3). I don't even know why the two games are compared as one focuses on shooting and the other focuses on platforming. It's like comparing Mirror's Edge and Halo.

Cube be trollin'.

 

To be fair, there is quite a bit of platforming in the Uncharted games (more so in the second game) and both series are clearly inspired quite a bit by movies like Indiana Jones. But yeah, overall they're pretty different.

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Mario didn't need maturing and those games are still stellar
Well apparently the bitch is sporting a beard in Mario Galaxy 3, our buys growing up!

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I can't decide if its funnier that this game looks and sounds to be terrible, or that you guys are surprised that it looks and sounds to be terrible.

 

:heh:

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The concept can be good, even if a little gimmicky but probably won't be used well... After all, it's Activision.

The design screams Spyro meets Warcraft to me. You can play as a murloc and I spotted a goblin in his mecha and some other creatures who look a lot like they belong to Azeroth.

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This-is-stupid. Why can't someone just do the right thing and recreate the original Spyro for ps3 and xbox 360 and why can you not download the original Spyro games from the playstation store!!! I R ANGRY!

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Not that I expect anyone cares about this game... although I will say it reminded me of Kameo somewhat watching the different elemental gameplay characters.

 

 

 

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Seeing as the game has now launched, what are everybody's thoughts on it now? I've personally come to love the game after finally seeing some gameplay videos and the rest of the playable characters - there are tons of great ones (like the cyborg dragon with lasers and jet wings <3) and I've now decided to "catch 'em all!" :P

 

That said, I haven't actually got any of them yet. I've ordered the starter packs for both the Wii and the 3DS (seeing as the 3DS version is completely different from the Wii/PS3/360/PC/Mac game, and also because of the exclusive Dark Spyro figurine), though, and they're expected to arrive early next week. I don't really want to wait that long, either, but I suppose I'll have to...

 

From what I've seen, it looks to be one of the greatest games ever. The graphics are beautiful, the voice acting is amazing, the music is stunning (as is to be expected from Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe, of course), the Skylands themselves look to be a great game world and the plot seems like the perfect mix of child-friendly and... well, entertaining.

 

Still not a big fan of Spyro's new design, of course, but at this point it's just a minor detail. It's not like I even have to use him to get through the game, so...

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From what I've seen, it looks to be one of the greatest games ever.

 

It seems like they've pulled this off better than anyone expected, but I don't think that puts it up there in greatest game ever territory. :heh:

 

 

What does sound good is that data can be carried over between consoles.

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