Equally hilarious and disturbing, the Chicken HQ is one of the few stages that does something interesting with the vehicles – a Crash Bandicoot-inspired escape scene that pushes the player to dart away from a giant, angry rooster.īy the third level, I would grimace whenever I saw an icon telling me I needed to place a car on the Portal of Power for a vehicle sequence. Cap’n Cluck’s Chicken HQ is another fun level that gives us a look at Skylands’ version of a fast-food chain’s operations. Another stand-out level is Monstrous Isle, a world that transforms the Skylanders into gigantic Kaiju beasts that can destroy sprawling cities and squash enemies under their feet.
This stage is a fun change of pace that sadly doesn’t last nearly long enough. My favorite part of SuperChargers is a side-scrolling platforming level that transports the Skylanders inside a children’s storybook, complete with a stylish illustrated look and spoken narration for the story developments. Slivers of this adventure are wonderfully creative, and do a better job of showing how the standard Skylanders action figures can be used to deliver new experiences than the vehicles do. This is the first legitimate swing and miss for the Skylanders series, but it doesn’t mean the brand is running out of gas. The majority of the content surrounding the vehicles lacks excitement, and doesn’t really deliver that fun Skylanders vibe. This is a huge gamble that sadly doesn’t pay off in the end. The vehicles, which offer challenges set on land, sea, and air, make up roughly 50 percent of the experience. This isn’t a light element shoved off to the side. Skylanders SuperChargers is the first disruptive release that gambles with the idea of introducing vehicles into the mix. New monster designs and the idea of playing as trapped enemies all fit snugly within the series’ existing framework.
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The Skylanders series has largely remained the same year in and year out.
Call of Duty made the risky gamble of moving its player base to the future of war, but it appears fans are pleased with this new direction. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series appears to be teetering on the precipice of disaster, shifting direction dramatically with each yearly release. The reasons range from “It’s gone on for too long” (when the experience largely echoes the previous entry’s) to “The developer just doesn’t understand why we like these games” (when the gameplay changes to give the series a slightly different pulse). An annualized video game series runs the risk of players praising it one year and inexplicably abandoning it the next.
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