SKYLANDERS swap force

Skylanders: Swap Force is an upcoming platformer video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision. It is the third main game in the Skylanders video game and toy franchise, following 2012's Skylanders: Giants, which was a direct sequel to 2011's Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. This game will be released in October 2013 for various formats, worldwide and Square Enix will publish the game for the Japanese marketing around 2014.
This will be the first Skylanders game to be released in North America before other regions, unlike the previous two games where Australia got the installments first. This is also the first Skylanders game not to be owned by Vivendi.

Gameplay

See also: Gameplay in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and Skylanders: Giants

The gameplay for Swap Force is based on the two previous games, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure and Skylanders: Giants. Players use a portal to bring real life action figures into the video game. For the new game, Skylanders are able to jump, and there are new swappable Skylanders. These sixteen new characters have top and bottom halves that can be separated from each other and recombined with the halves from other characters. This allows for a total of 256 combinations between all tops and bottoms. Another new feature of the swappable characters is that each has one of eight distinct ways of moving. These different movement types are necessary to enter certain side areas in the game. Only characters with the correct bottom half can enter said areas.
Levels: Mount Cloudbreak, Cascade Glade, Mudwater Hollow, Rampant Ruins, Jungle Rumble, Iron Jaw Gulch, Molteyville, Twisty Tunnels, Serpant's Peak, Boney Island, Winter Keep, Frostfest Mountain, Mesmeralda's Snow, Fantasm Fortress, Kaos' Fortress, Motherly Mayhem, Cloudbreak Core,

Starter Sets

As with the previous installments of the game, Skylanders: Swap Force will be available for purchase in Starter Bundles that will include a copy of the game itself, the portal of power, a handful of characters to begin or supplement your collection, a poster of the entire Swap Force collection, cards, stickers, and Web codes. The Current Starters and the charters included are as follows:

Gamestop Exclusive Dark Edition Starter Pack

• Dark Wash Buckler
• Dark Blast Zone
• Dark Ninja Stealth Elf
• Dark Mega Ram Spyro
• Dark Slobber Tooth
• Available for Wii/Wii U/Xbox 360/PS3/ upon associated release dates. (It is unconfirmed whether or not the Dark Edition Starter pack will be released on Xbox One/PS4).

Console Starter Pack

• Wash Buckler
• Blast Zone
• Ninja Stealth Elf
• Available for Wii/Wii U/Xbox 360/Xbox One/PS3/PS4 upon associated release dates

3DS Starter Pack

• Rattle Shake
• Free Ranger
• Volcanic Eruptor
• Available only for 3DS upon associated release date

Pre-Order Bonuses

• People who pre-order Console Starter Pack or Gamestop Exclusive Dark Edition Starter Pack from GameStop receive a free, never before released Skylanders: Giants Lightcore Hex figure and a poster.
• People who pre-order Console Starter Pack from Toys "R" Us also receive a free, never before released Lightcore Hex figure, a poster, and any single Skylanders: Swap Force character they would like.
• People who pre-order Console Starter Pack from Walmart also receive the free, never before released Lightcore Hex figure.
• People who pre-order Console Starter Pack from Target Corporation receive a free, exclusive, physical magic/trading card that grants upgrades when placed on the new Portal of Power, as well as the Lightcore Hex figure.
• People who pre-order Console Starter Pack from Best Buy also receive the free, never before released Lightcore Hex figure.

New Skylanders and Map Packs

Main article: List of Skylanders characters

Swap Force features sixteen new core characters and sixteen new swappable characters, in addition to sixteen reposed Skylanders from previous games, five new dark figures and eight Lightcore Skylanders.

Dark Figures

• Dark Wash Buckler (Water - Climb)
• Dark Blast Zone (Fire - Rocket)
• Dark Slobber Tooth (Earth)
• Dark Ninja Stealth Elf (Life)
• Dark Mega Ram Spyro (Magic)

Battle / Adventure Packs

• Tower Of Time (Adventure) Includes Pop Thorn, Tower of Time, Battle Hammer, and Sky Diamond
• Fiery Forge (Battle) Includes Bumble Blast, Knockout Terrafin and Cauldron
• Arkeyan Crossbow (Battle)
• Sheep Wreck Island (Adventure)

Lightcore

• Wham-shell (Water)
• Smolderdash (Fire)
• Bumble Blast (Life)
• Flashwing (Earth)
• Countdown (Tech)
• Warnado (Air)
• Grim Creeper (Undead)
• Star Strike (Magic)

Core

• Roller Brawl (Undead)
• Grim Creeper (Undead)
• Scorp (Earth)
• Slobber Tooth (Earth)
• Star Strike (Magic)
• Dune Bug (Magic)
• Bumble Blast (Life)

• Zoo Lou (Life)
• Fryno (Fire)
• Smolderdash (Fire)
• Wind Up (Tech)
• Countdown (Tech)
• Punk Shock (Water)
• Rip Tide (Water)
• Scratch (Air)
• Pop Thorn (Air)

Swappable

• Wash Buckler (Water - Climb)
• Freeze Blade (Water - Speed)
• Magna Charge (Tech - Speed)
• Spy Rise (Tech - Climb)
• Free Ranger (Air - Spin)
• Boom Jet (Air - Rocket)
• Blast Zone (Fire - Rocket)
• Fire Kraken (Fire - Bounce)
• Rattle Shake (Undead - Bounce)
• Night Shift (Undead - Teleport)
• Hoot Loop (Magic - Teleport)
• Trap Shadow (Magic - Sneak)
• Stink Bomb (Life - Sneak)
• Grilla Drilla (Life - Dig)
• Rubble Rouser (Earth - Dig)
• Doom Stone (Earth - Spin)