Activision has just announced that Skylanders Trap Team is coming to mobile devices the same day as it's hitting consoles!
Skylanders 'Eon's Elite' Toys Will Bring Elite Spyro And Chop Chop Back For Trap Team
This is the first time a full-featured Skylanders game was made available for mobile devices, and it will be out for iPad, Kindle Fire and Android tablets, delivering the same quality graphics as its big console brothers. What's more- the game will come with its own controller and Traptanium portal that lets you add your own toys into the game and trap enemies with the Trap crystals.
As always getting into a Skylanders game takes a little bit of an initial investment. Here Activision will be selling a Skylanders Trap Team Tablet Starter Pack that includes a Bluetooth Traptanium Portal, an embedded Bluetooth controller, a built-in tablet stand; two Skylanders characters, two Traps and a display tray that lets Portal Masters keep track of the Traps they've collected and which villains they have trapped.
Skylanders Trap Team 'Dark Edition' Starter Pack Announced, Features Ultimate Kaos Trap
The Starter Pack for the game will run you $74.99, with individual Trap Master toys running $14.99. Core Skylanders toys are available for $9.99 and individual trap toys for $5.99, although the basic starter pack will give you everything you need to play.
If you like you can choose to use touch controls instead of a controller, although the controller will allow you to play it just as the console version.
"Skylanders has become an incredibly appealing brand and franchise for kids around the world. And the tablet has become an incredibly appealing gaming platform for kids around the world. But we haven't been able to bring the full Skylanders experience to the tablet until now," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. "We always want to deliver breakthrough experiences, and we also always want to be wherever gamers want to play. This is a chance for us to bring the magic of Skylanders to a whole new platform and audience. Whether you want to sit on the couch and play with the wireless controller, or play on the go using just the tablet itself, this provides a great experience for gamers."
They are brilliant, aren't they? The previously untapped tablet market is a massive one for their target audience (ie, kids), and bringing them a console-quality experience gives a new option that gamers will undoubtedly flock to.
The Skylanders Trap Team Starter Pack will be available on October 5 in North America, October 10 in Europe and October 2 in Australia, on basically every possible platform.
[UPDATE] Per reader request- here's the list of devices that can run this.
Apple iPad 3rd Generation, iPad 4th Generation, iPad Mini Retina, iPad Air
Kindle Fire HDX (7” & 8.9”)
Google Nexus 7 (2013)
Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro (8.4”, 10.1”, 12.2”)
Samsung Galaxy Tab S (8.4”, 10.5”)
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014), Galaxy Note Pro 12.2