Skylanders: Giants
Skylanders: Giants is a 2012 video game in the Skylanders series, a direct sequel to the 2011 game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and features the voices of Kevin Michael Richardson, Greg Ellis, Peter Lurie…
Skylanders: Giants is an adventure developed by Toys for Bob, released 17 October 2012 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Skylanders: Giants is
Skylanders: Giants is an adventure game developed by Toys for Bob and released in 2012. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Skylanders: Giants is a 2012 video game in the Skylanders series, a direct sequel to the 2011 game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and features the voices of Kevin Michael Richardson, Greg Ellis, Peter Lurie, Steve Blum, Dave Wittenberg, Carlos Alazraqui, Kevin Sorbo, Bobcat Goldthwait, Patrick Seitz and Julie Nathanson. It is the game before Skylanders: Swap Force. As the title suggests, it features larger Skylanders known as "Giants", along with other new gameplay mechanics. The 3DS ports of the first four Skylanders games are completely different from their home console counterparts in terms of gameplay and story.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Skylanders series
Skylanders: Giants is the fifth of 13 entries we hold in the Skylanders series. The next entry was Skylanders: Swap Force in 2013.
What it launched against
Skylanders: Giants launched on 17 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III.
Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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