Skylanders: Trap Team

Nintendo LifeMorgan Sleeper

8/10

Trap Team continues the Skylanders legacy in style, serving up an excellent adventure with fun gameplay, lots of variety and top-notch production values both on-screen and off. It’s kid-friendly in every sense of the word, though grown-up gamers will find plenty to enjoy here as well. While it’s true you’ll have to pony up beyond the premium-priced starter kit if you want to see absolutely everything that Trap Team has to offer, there’s more than enough content included in the base game, and you’ll have everything you need for a fantastic two-player co-op experience right out of the box. Don’t...

GameSpotRandolph Ramsay

8/10

It's a trap!

Pure XboxKen Barnes

8/10

It’s a shame that to complete Skylanders: Trap Team to 100%, you’ll need to purchase around eight extra traps at about £6 each and probably the same amount of Skylanders at £10 and up apiece. That makes for a very, very expensive game for most parents, even if you bring into account Christmas and birthday gifts from relatives and the like. However, the game itself can be more-or-less completed without additional purchases and is such a wonderfully-crafted and enjoyable experience that even without spending extra cash, it will keep kids (and adults…this reviewer is 33 and has about 25 hours log...

TheSixthAxisJim Hargreaves

8/10

With a more intuitive – not to mention, convenient – core gimmick, Skylanders’ fourth instalment is a solid outing for the series, dispelling fears that the Activision power seller is succumbing to fatigue. For fans, it’s yet another all-round improvement, but Trap Team also serves as a perfect entry point for newcomers.

Attack of the FanboyDean James

Skylanders: Trap Team takes what is already great about the franchise and makes it even better with the incredibly fun trapping mechanic that propels the villains into the spotlight.

Worth PlayingChris "Atom" DeAngelus

7.5/10

With Skylanders Trap Team, Portal Masters seek out and defeat the most wanted villains in all of Skylands, pulling them out of the game and into living rooms by capturing them in magical Traps. Players can then send villains back into the game where they play as them to fight for good.

Digital TrendsRick Marshall

“Skylanders: Trap Team seems intent on forcing players to open their wallets if they want the full experience of what the game has to offer.”

VideogamerTom Bardwell

7/10

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A good kid’s game, film, or book is one that children can spend hours of time on. A great one is a game that children and adults can enjoy equally. Skylanders Trap Team is closer to Saturday Disney than Harry Potter, but that’s not really a criticism of it. It’s a highly focused game designed explicitly to fill up the Christmas list of the child in the household. But it is a well produced game, well above the standards of most children’s games, and those miniatures are highly collectible stuff. The kids will love having this under that pine tree.

MonsterVineDiego Escala

Activision seems content to not fix my core problem with the game and that’s its unrelenting slow pace. The characters still move at a sluggish pace and you can’t fast forward through text dialog with your only option being to straight up skip them or listen to each lines dreadfully slow delivery. You have to wait for the game to load whatever menu you get into and it’s long enough to drop into annoying territory. The entire game just feels super slow and I understand it’s a kids game but I doubt the horde of children that play this series would riot if they made things play a little faster. C...

Press StartShannon Grixti

Unscored

The game apparently has to be online to download new characters once placed on the portal. It is a small annoyance but won’t be an issue for most players. I’d rather that the game do this as it’d be ridiculous to download character data for over 100 Skylanders when most won’t get the full catalogue. The good thing is that you’re able to play the game with no portal attached and you’ll still have access to two Skylanders at all times. You’re also able to play the game without purchasing the Starter Kit through the use of digital packs. These are quite expensive though so i’d opt for buying the ...

Xbox AchievementsLee Abrahams

Unscored

Skylanders is basically Call of Duty for kids in that, no matter what the game includes, it’ll sell a ton of copies and leave parents wondering where all of their money went come Christmas. In fact, the bodycount in Skylanders is probably way higher than in Call of Duty, as the violence against chompers and their ilk is truly off the charts. But hey, if it means our collection of sweet figurines can continue to grow, then I’m all for it.