If you don't have a Fire Skylander, you simply can't take on some challenges, and it feels as if you're missing out on content you've already paid for. Many areas have access locked down to a specific element. You can bring any physical Skylander into the game to get in on the combat and platforming action, and each of them has an elemental affinity, such as Life or Water or Magic or whatever.
The main reason for that is the Portal itself.
It's playable this way, but it you're not getting the full experience. You can play on the go, but if you don't want to lug all the hardware around with you you'll be limiting your Skylanders choices to just Instant Food Fight and Instant Snap Shot, plus any enemies you confine to the Instant Life and Instant Water Traps. It's so good that I wish you could use it in other games as a standard MFi controller, but alas, you can't.Īn Internet connection is required while playing, as Skylanders Trap Team needs to access the net to download additional data frequently.Īlternatively you can plum for the Premium Install, which partitions off another 6GB of space on your tablet and begins retrieving data for the entire game in the background as you're playing. The Portal places your Skylanders into the game quickly, and the controller is comfortable to hold and easy to use. All you need to do then is download the game from the App Store. You also get a standard Skylander from the new series called Food Fight, and a Trap Master named Snap Shot. In the Starter Pack you'll find two Traps, the Portal, a controller, 5 AAA batteries, and other bits and pieces. It's also $75 US dollars (or about £50) for the Starter Pack, and in its obsession with being as close as possible to a home release, it can feel a little awkward to play. It's an Xbox 360 game, but on your iPad, and it is a phenomenal technical achievement. It's a big budget, AAA experience, with almost no concession given to the fact that it happens to be running on a tablet. Playing Skylanders Trap Team feels like you're getting a taste of the future of iOS gaming, especially if the home console game studios have their way.
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