Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Starter Pack Product Details

Released on 14-Oct-2011

• GAME: Family Games Round-up

  GAME rounds up a selection of the best family-friendly titles to enjoy with friends and loved ones.

  Start the party

  Featuring over 40 songs across a wide range of genres, from today hottest hits to classic tracks, Just Dance 3 (X360 requires Kinect, PS3 requires Move, Wii) marks the debut of the massively popular dance series on Xbox 360 and PS3, as well as its return to Wii. Perfect to play at parties with friends, at home with the family or as part of an active lifestyle, it introduces a number of new features including a four player dance crew mode offering everyone their moment in the spotlight with a specific choreography.

  Sporting feast

  Kinect Sports: Season Two (X360 requires Kinect) takes family game nights to the next level with six new sports to jump into and enjoy. Featuring tennis, baseball, golf, darts, American football and skiing, with unique challenges and activities for each set across multiple difficulty levels, there something here for everyone, from casual players to top athletes and hardcore sports fans. It also takes full advantage of the revolutionary Kinect technology latest exciting features such as in-game voice commands and enhanced tracking for precise full-body motion control, helping transform your living room into a fun-filled sports arena.

  Disney dream world

  Disney Universe (X360, PS3, Wii) offers a non-stop action ride through a series of worlds inspired by family Disney and Disney Pixar films, from family favourites like Aladdin and The Lion King to Pirates of the Caribbean and Monsters Inc. Players will suit-up as iconic characters and embark on adventures to power up their hero, explore magical worlds, battle adversaries and master challenging puzzles in order to save the universe with up to three friends online. Offering fresh environments, new challenges and different gameplay styles at every turn, it also features plenty of slapstick humour that will appeal to all ages.

  Toys meet games

  Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii, 3DS) combines the worlds of toys and games to create a whole new genre of interactive entertainment. Using the Portal of Power and the toys supplied with the game, players can bring real-world action figures to life in a virtual world full of adventure, beaming them into Skyland to explore mysterious environments, collect treasures and battle evil forces. The toys also work from console to console, allowing players to take them to a friend house to play co-operatively or in battles against each other.

  Get in the game

  Nintendo Blue Wii Console with Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games delivers maximum multiplayer fun with the minimum of fuss. Wireless and motion-sensitive, the Wii Remote controller offers an intuitive, natural way to play games, allowing you to use everyday motions to place you at centre of the experience. As the Olympic games hit London, you can swing, shake and jump your way to victory across a variety of mini-games set around famous landmarks, competing alone or head to head in classic events such as the 100 metre sprint, aquatics, table tennis, football, show jumping and canoeing.

   

  Published: 08/12/2011

• Skyrim scoops top award at Interactive Achievement Awards

  Bethesda's sprawling and brilliant role-playing monster, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, fus-roh-dahhed it's way to an impressive five wins last night at the Interactive Achievement Awards.

  Skyrim took home the top honours as Game of the Year, as well as awards for best RPG, gameplay engineering, game direction and story.

  Other winners included Modern Warfare 3, which was voted best action game, FIFA 12, named best sports game, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, honoured for its multiplayer achievements. Uncharted 3 took home gongs for its animation and art direction, while the toys-come-to-life family hit Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure was singled out for its contribution to outstanding innovation. Britain's own Stephen Merchant took home the award for outstanding character performance thanks to his superb turn as Wheatley in Portal 2.

  The ceremony was held during the DICE Summit in Las Vegas. Not to be confused with the Swedish Battlefield developer, DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) is an annual gathering for the great and good of the games industry, and the Interactive Achievement Awards handed out at the event are the gaming equivalent of the Oscars. Only without the long emotional speeches, dance routines and dewy-eyed montages of dead celebrities, obviously.

• UFC Undisputed 3 reigns supreme over UK charts

  THQ's new mixed martial arts game UFC Undisputed 3 has performed an aggressive takedown on its competitors in the UK all-formats chart this week.
  
  The acclaimed Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title debuted in first place in the official GfK-ChartTrack rankings, edging ahead of perennial favourite FIFA 12, which was back up to second.
  
  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 once again showed off its impressive staying power to climb back up to third place, while Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games achieved its highest ever chart position with a fourth-place finish.
  
  Aside from UFC Undisputed 3, no other new games entered the top 40 this week, though there was a newcomer to the top ten: Activision's sleeper hit Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, which continued its steady ascent up the chart to seventh.
  
  Next week, the charts will be well and truly shaken up by the debut of PlayStation Vita, Sony's newest handheld console, as well as a number of blockbuster games.
  
  PS Vita launch titles such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss and WipEout 2048 are sure to make a splash, as are multiplatform games like the sci-fi shooter Syndicate.

  Published: 20/02/2012

• Bank Holiday Games!

  
  

  It's the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, which means we all get an extra day off. So with the weather being predictably unpredictable, why not spend it in the company of some great games?

  Here's our handy guide for some of the best games to enjoy this bank holiday weekend, with ideas for children, for friends and family, or for getting some serious single-player gaming done!

  Games for the kids:

  

  If you have a kids and a Kinect, there's really only one choice - Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure, giving the chance for the little ones to play along with all their favourite Pixar characters, like Woody and Buzz, Remy the Rat, Lightning McQueen and the Incredibles. Kids will love using the Kinect to interact with their Pixar friends, lifting, steering, flying, swimming and smashing their way through a variety of fun games that will keep them occupied for hours, and feeling like they're part of the story.

  
  

  

  For more quirky fun with their favourite characters, it's hard to go wrong with our wide choice of LEGO games. Kids can take a trip to Hogwarts and help Harry Potter and chums defeat Voldemort, set sail with the Pirates of the Caribbean, use the Force in Star Wars, or hero-up alongside Batman or Indiana Jones. With classic adventures recreated in LEGO's trademark building blocks, and delivered with LEGO's trademark sense of humour, there's plenty for kids of all ages to enjoy - and for parents to enjoy once the children have gone to bed!

  

  Skylanders continue to be a big hit with the kids, and you'll be a big hit with your kids if you bring Skylanders home! The age-old battle of good versus evil is brought to life not only through the video game itself, but enhanced by the collection of character toys that interact with the game. There's a whole host of cool characters to collect and who join are brought to life in the game via the Portal of Power, so the opportunities for new games and new challenges are endless!

  Games for friends and family:

  

  When's the plenty of people round, a little friendly competition always goes a long way. Where better to find out who's best than at the Olympic games? And who better to play with than Mario and Sonic? Well, as luck would have it, Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is chock full of fun contests that test a wide variety of skills, with unique ways of interacting with the action. There's everything from sprinting to table tennis, canoeing to show-jumping, as well as some imaginative twists in the 'Dream' events, like a long-jump that takes you flying from cloud to cloud. And all for a lot less than a ticket to the real Olympics!

  

  If you - or your party - starts to get a bit more active, then there's always Just Dance 3. The latest chapter in the hugely successful dancing game series continues to challenge all to bust their best moves. This time there's an even wider variety of dancefloor-classic songs from almost every era and a range of different game modes to keep the party fresh and four-player action for the ultimate dance-off! It's compatible with Wii, PlayStation Move and Kinect, and pushes motion controls to their funky limits!

  Games on your own:

  

  Looking for a game to put some serious single-player hours into? Well, you can always journey into space with Mass Effect 3, one of the biggest and most talked-about games of the year. This sci-fi adventure is as much an in-depth role-playing experience as it is a third-person shooter, promising a journey where you choices really define the way the game is played. Thousands of people all over the world have committed almost as many hours following Commander Shepard across the Trilogy, so why not spend this weekend finding out just why?

  

  If you prefer your role-playing a little more traditional, then the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Pandora's Tower are two fantastic offerings. Questing in fantasy worlds, battling mythical beasts, swords, sorcery and an ending based on how you play - the whole RPG experienced wrapped up in a complete package! Skyrim offers a first-person adventure and dragons, while Pandora's Tower gives you classical music and a very personal quest. Either game will take up your entire weekend!

  

  For time consumption of a different kind, Minecraft has finally made its way to Xbox 360 thanks to Xbox LIVE. This 8-bit phenomenon has become a global cult classic, with it's simple sandbox gameplay: mine things and then build things. What sounds so simple becomes perilously addictive as your skills and ambitions become greater and greater still, and the long weekend is ideal to get settled into a time-sucking game like this!

  Published: 30/04/2012

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