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Vehicles add a nice twist to the Skylanders formula, which shows off even more refinement and polish in SuperChargers.
With every passing year that the Skylanders series continues, there seems to be a palpable fear that the gimmick for the next game will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. After seeing the initial reveal of SuperChargers earlier this year, I feared that vehicles would be that final straw, as the land, sea, and air vehicles just added superfluous content to the typical Skylanders Diablo-lite gameplay. But after playing through SuperChargers, I think I missed the point initially. What this new Vicarious Visions-developed Wii U game does so right is variety. Skylanders is no longer just a quality toys-to-life brawler. It’s also a kart racer, a flight sim, a car combat game, a Pixar-inspired story, and a Magic the Gathering-inspired card game. SuperChargers has such a wide breadth of content, and everything is executed beautifully.
Sometimes patents do just more than frustrate video game company's, the force innovation. Here are 10 examples of this in action.
Let's also not forget the other frivolous attempts at patents like how Sony tries to trademark the term "Let's Play", or how King tried to trademark the term "candy", or how Mojang tried to patent the term "scrolls".
The most ridiculous has to be in 2009 and 2011, when Sega was awarded two more patents on the use of tap and drag-and-drop controls on a touchscreen to move characters around; i.e., using a touchscreen as a touchscreen! Level-5's rebuttal was quite possibly the most epic pwning ever to happen via corporate public statement.
Phil writes, "Let's turn our attention to last year's Skylanders SuperChargers. With Imaginators coming out this year and all the hype around Crash Bandicoot being in it, it seemed like a smart time to try out the game's predecessor. Here's SuperPhillip Central's review of Skylanders SuperChargers."
With E3 in full swing, Mon Amiibo has a look at what could be in store for the Skylanders franchise at the show.
