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A look at all the biggest Skylanders Giants characters
Here's a nice look at all eight of the new Giants characters in Skylanders Giants. This may be old news to hardcore fans frantically looking for any bits of news on toys, but for everyone else you can see just how cool they all look. There's a Thumpback, a giant-ass whale that uses an anchor to fight. Ninjini is a ninja that's also a genie. Eye-Brawl is a giant flying eye that's teamed up with a headless body to fight as one. My favorite of all the Giants though is Swarm. I talked about Swarm a little before, and I got to see more of the character during a recent hands-on demo. Each character has a surprisingly robust upgrade tree, and Swarm's is the best. Some of his later upgrades sees him transforming into a swarm of bees and anything that touches him will get hurt, Plus, he can take the shape of an axe and attack enemies with it as the swarm of bees. Skylanders Giants will be out on October 21, 2012 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, and on November 18 for the Wii U. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)Heh, I wish I had them 25 years ago. As it stands, at 35 I decided to collect all the original Skylanders. It's really a great game and system. My kid can play with them when he's old enough. :p Until then, I play occasionally when I'm tired of something hardcore like Dragon's Dogma. I have an erection now. Fuck I need to find somewhere to put the giant ones, my regular ones are all scattered around.
Skylanders is awesome, possibly the most evil game concept ever created, but awesome. "I have an erection now. Fuck I need to find somewhere to put the giant ones, my regular ones are all scattered around."
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