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…

69 17 October 2012

Adventure Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy

Skylanders: Giants is an adventure developed by Toys for Bob, released 17 October 2012 on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

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 Wii U, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. It runs on Vicarious Visions Alchemy.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Skylanders: Giants is a 2012 toys-to-life action role-playing game in the Skylanders series and a direct sequel to the 2011 game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. As the title suggests, it features larger Skylanders known as "Giants", along with other new gameplay mechanics. 16 new Skylanders were introduced, including 8 "Giants": Bouncer, Crusher, Eye-Brawl, Hot Head, Ninjini, Swarm, Thumpback, and Tree Rex.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Skylanders series

Skylanders: Giants is the fourth of 13 entries we hold in the Skylanders series. It arrived 10 months after Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure - Empire of Ice. The next entry was Skylanders: Giants in 2012. Its critic score of 69 is 9 points below the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Skylanders: Swap Force at 83.

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How it was received

Skylanders: Giants holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

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. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.

Cheats and codes

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