The game offers everything from collectibility to strategic card combat, online PvP and an exciting single-player campaign, appealing to both Skylanders fans and classic card battle enthusiasts. It will drop later this year on iOS and Android. In a two-player game, an animated character can attack another, and you see the animated battle take place on the mobile screen.
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Players will also be able to collect cards to build up the best-possible team of Skylanders heroes.
For Skylanders Battlecast, players can purchase physical card packs at retail, as well as digital card packs in-game.
Activision already has one mega-successful collectible card game with Blizzard’s Hearthstone – and now it is aiming for another. Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg claims this is the company’s “biggest investment” for Skylanders on mobile. Players will experience a “magic moment” by scanning cards with their mobile devices and watching them come to life. Those will interact with the camera on your mobile device to somehow bring animations to life, thus staying at least somewhat true to the Skylanders toys-to-life ethos.
The popular Skylanders franchise is known for incorporating action figures into the virtual world of a video game.
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Skylanders Battlecast will be free to download from the App Store, Google Play and the Amazon Appstore. Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, …
