Skylanders!

Skylanders: Cloud Patrol is a very cool game that Isaac and I played a lot on the iPad. Also released was Skylanders: Lost Islands, which Isaac is playing and Skylanders: Battlegrounds which is also for iOS but we haven't tried this one… yet.

Just released now is the third game for the console, Skylanders: Swap Force. The gameplay for Swap Force is based on the two previous games, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and Skylanders: Giants. Players use a portal to bring real life action figures into the video game. For the new game, Skylanders are able to jump, and there are new swappable Skylanders. These sixteen new characters have top and bottom halves that can be separated from each other and recombined with the halves from other characters. This allows for a total of 256 combinations between all tops and bottoms. Another new feature of the swappable characters is that each has one of eight distinct ways of moving. These different movement types are necessary to enter certain side areas in the game. Only characters with the correct bottom half can enter said areas.