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[Saty]

The rumors were true. The game is targeted for children between the ages 6-12; to be released this fall on multiple platforms.
The game also comes with a selction of action figures which the player can put on a 'portal' and have them recreated in the game.

the publisher of the far-more-adult Call of Duty is targeting ages 6 to 12 with a line of action figures starring more than 30 characters from the game. When the game is running, players can put an action figure on a plastic "portal" or stand and watch the toys appear on their TV, and the toy becomes a moving character in the game for the player to control.

To help create the world of Skyland where Spyro and fellow characters live, Activision has enlisted Hollywood talent, including Shrek character designer Tom Hester, screenwriters Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen (Toy Story) and composer Hans Zimmer (Inception).

Pricing for individual toys has not been set, but a $70 starter pack will include the video game, three toys, portal and trading cards. Activision plans to release the game for multiple systems as well as computers, handhelds and phones.

Once a character's toy is put on the portal and enters the game, as a player collects gold or levels-up his character or upgrades a weapon, that character's improved abilities are saved in the toy's memory. Players can take their toy to a friend's house and, when the character is transported into that game, all of its attributes are available.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2011-02-11-spyro11_ST_N.htm
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-11-skylanders-spyros-adventure-announced

 

[Rich!]

So, wait...what's the game like?

 

[No_Style]

$70 starter pack?

I guess it's never too early to get a job.

Haha! Hans Zimmer is on this as well? It's going to be an epic soundtrack.

 

[VOOK]

Please don't be on a Nintendo console, I don't want to have to write this shit up.

 

[Gravijah]

Please don't be on a Nintendo console, I don't want to have to write this shit up.

it includes toys

it was basically made for nintendo consoles!

 

[GarthVaderUK]

Spyro's been beaten with the ugly stick.

 

[Stumpokapow]

oh my god this is idiotic.

 

[VOOK]

oh my god this is idiotic.

But Ubisoft pulled it off so well with that Lazer Tag game!

 

[BlazingDarkness]

Every time an Activision thread is posted on GAF, a kitten dies.

 

[adelante]

Haha! Hans Zimmer is on this as well? It's going to be an epic soundtrack.

Wait what?!? When exactly is this coming out? He had better be involved with MW3's soundtrack!!

 

[DonMigs85]

What have they done to Spyro??? He looks hideous, like a generic Rare abomination

 

[Radogol]

$70 starter pack?

I guess it's never too early to get a job.

Kids are known to buy their own games.

It's only 20$ over normal game price and you get three figures with it

 

[Gravijah]

Every time an Activision thread is posted on GAF, a kitten dies.

Kittens are pirates, anyway. Have you ever seen a kitten with a job? Where do they get all that money from?

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Activision: We're canceling Guitar Hereo because the days of plastic peripherals that are expensives and work for few games ARE OVERAHH.
*day later*
Activision: Say, remember eye of judgement...lets do that but target it at Children and release our own toy series. We'll also require another one-game plastic peripheral. YEAHHH. Lessons learned.

My question is will the portal be universal (as in will be it one type for Wii, one for PS3 and one for 360, this is my gripe with the previous Activision peripherals, why not just make one and use sone adaptor) and will be required to play.

That said I'm interested at what techincal mechanism they use for the communication aspect of it (it'll probably be bluetooth, like the Wii remotes memory that was and never could be used for anything useful). Given trading cards I'm getting some weird barcode battler vibe from it all.

 

[Foffy]

Why do I have a feeling this will be as bad as some of the Tony Hawk games as of late?

 

[El-Suave]

Those toys might be reborn from melted guitars, skateboards and turntables - the circle of life.

 

[StealthGoblin]

This sounds like a total disaster.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Sounds like it'd be good for kids if it wasn't $70. The toys I get, but are they really going to appreciate a Hans Zimmer score that much?

When this bombs and they blame the high cost of development as a reason for gutting the studio I will...not know what to say.

 

[Zomba13]

Is... Is that... Spyro?
D: What have they done to him?

 

[adelante]

Sounds like it'd be good for kids if it wasn't $70. The toys I get, but are they really going to appreciate a Hans Zimmer score that much?

I'd like to think the kids kinda appreciate his music in Madagascar and Kungfu Panda...

 

[Yoshichan]

What the fuck happened to him?

 

[hamchan]

What the fuck is that thing? Kill it now.

 

[Rapstah]

I'd like to think the kids kinda appreciate his music in Madagascar and Kungfu Panda...

Hans Zimmer wrote I Like To Move It?!?!

 

[teruterubozu]

Use your peripherals.

 

[RoboPlato]

A shitton of plastic to buy with the game? Yep, this sounds like an Activision idea.

WTF is that Spyro design? Are they trying to make him hardcore enough for the 6 to 12 year olds?

 

[hamchan]

So how did this series go from an Insomniac developed, Sony published game.... to this?

 

[thefil]

I got excited. Thought this might be a return to form for Spyro, but instead it's a horrifying abomination.

 

[adelante]

Hans Zimmer wrote I Like To Move It?!?!

:O

no wait..

 

[sajj316]

Those toys might be reborn from melted guitars, skateboards and turntables - the circle of life.

Sad but true .. although I don't mind them melting the guitars, skateboards, and turntables.

 

[V_Ben]

My god, that sounds positively horrific. And yet I think it'll be huge with kids. Really don't like that spyro design though.

 

[Carl]

I hope you die, Spyro.

 

[Yoboman]

insomuacks are spinning in their grave

 

[Urban Scholar]

Spyro is ranking a -100 in the cuteness scale, what 8-12 year olds want to play with him? Old PS1 design still on top.

 

[Gazunta]

JESUS FUCK WHAT HAVE THEY DONE

And people thought our version of him was crazy

....


WHAT IS THAT, BURN IT WITH FIRE

 

[DonMigs85]

My god, that sounds positively horrific. And yet I think it'll be huge with kids. Really don't like that spyro design though.

Reminded me of this fellow too:

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

I wonder how Insomniac feel right now.

 

[Haunted]

500 people got laid off so this project could live.

 

[Kurtofan]

Spyro's been beaten with the ugly stick.

I cried.

 

[V_Ben]

I wonder how Insomniac feel right now.

This isn't like watching your daughter do porn... this is like watching her being gang raped.

 

[szaromir]

Is... Is that... Spyro?
D: What have they done to him?

 

[Gazunta]

This isn't like watching your daughter do porn... this is like watching her being gang raped.

I know I'm not Spyro's true parent, but I do feel like a foster parent to the guy, and...well, this is the point where you start making worried calls...

 

[flamesofchaos]

So how did this series go from an Insomniac developed, Sony published game.... to this?

Because Vivendi Universal always owned the franchise and Vivendi Games was merged with Activision.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

500 people got laid off so this project could live.

Review quote for cover.

http://www.wiinintendo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/kirby_5.jpg

I think the Kirby with the Wario mouth from the old Dojo thread is much better example of what happened to Spyro:

 

[V_Ben]

I know I'm not Spyro's true parent, but I do feel like a foster parent to the guy, and...well, this is the point where you start making worried calls...

Feel comfortable in the fact that, after Insomniac, you guys made the best Spyro. I'd be worried too hearing about this direction for the series :/ (art direction sounds like the least of it's worries).

I hate to think what an Activision crash game would turn out like.

 

[Fersis]

oh my god this is idiotic.

Not if they have brains!

These are toys with brains
We definitely wanted to take Spyro to next level"

I wonder how Insomniac feel right now.

We need JS here ASAP.

 

[Lijik]

Spyro is ranking a -100 in the cuteness scale, what 8-12 year olds want to play with him? Old PS1 design still on top.

None, that way they /have/ to buy new toys for better looking characters.

If i was at a computer, id photoshop Koticks head onto Moneybags body.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

The Hell is that for an abomination?

 

[Scrow]

Spyro's been beaten with the ugly stick.

 

[LiK]

They'll cancel it right before it goes gold.

 

[Complex Shadow]

last spyro game i played was this one

and i am gonna keep it at that.