Skylanders: Swap Force
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: Swap Force is an adventure developed by Vicarious Visions, released 13 October 2013 on PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One and PlayStation 3.
What Skylanders: Swap Force is
Skylanders: Swap Force is an adventure game developed by Vicarious Visions and released in 2013. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. It runs on Vicarious Visions Alchemy.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Spyro the Dragon series
Skylanders: Swap Force is the 40th of 53 entries we hold in the Spyro the Dragon series. It arrived 11 months after Skylanders: Battlegrounds. The next entry was Skylanders: SuperChargers in 2015. Its critic score of 83 is 15 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Spyro Reignited Trilogy at 84.
How it was received
Skylanders: Swap Force holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 50 votes.
What it launched against
Skylanders: Swap Force launched on 13 October 2013, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut and The Stanley Parable. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Skylanders: Swap Force yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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