

When you pick up the Starter pack for Skylanders, you get the game, the Portal of Power base that plugs into your console, and three action figures. The game itself isn’t what I’d label great, but I’m pretty surprised nobody has come up with this concept before now. But the more I continued to play Skylanders, the more I found myself genuinely impressed with the concept. So inviting more plastic toys into your home for video games might not seem like a great idea. I think we’ve all been burned a time or two by plastic peripherals that plug into a video game system, and most of those gadgets have come from games published by Activision, the same publisher behind Skylanders. It’d be easy to pass Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure off as a gimmick.
