Activision begins with Activate, a platform for mobile games. The first games that there are to find shelter, Skylanders: Lost Islands and Skylanders: Battlegrounds, two new games, which currently only appear for iOS. Also, existing games go under Activate traps.
With Activate follow Activision’s example of superpowers in the mobile area, such as the Japanese Gree. Activate should a portal be around the mobile games from Activision, where players can log in with their Facebook account information. They can Activate and then use savegames to store. The advantage of this is that the same game on different devices can be played. Furthermore, Activate developers the option to support to build such things as a friends list, leaderboards, achievements and invitations.
One of the two games, as the first of Activate use, Skylanders: Lost Islands, is a free playable resourcemanagementgame, which is set in the Skylanders universe. The game appears at the end of november on the market. Building a base can be accelerated by gems to use. Which can be earned in the game, but also be purchased from Activision.
The other game, Skylanders: Battlegrounds, appears for only for iOS. Also Possible to be released in november. There is by that time for 50 dollars a Starter Pack in the shop. This is a bluetooth version of the coaster that also in the previous games. Can the three characters be placed in the Starter Pack, there are. The gameplay of Battlegrounds also seems to be more that of the this month appeared to Skylanders Giants with figures and a coaster works. The puppets of Giants, and in 2011 appeared in Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure, can also be used in Battlegrounds. Activision describes Battlegrounds as a game in which players place their Skylanders against ‘swarms opponents’. According to the publisher, is the Starter Pack, and thus the coaster, it is not necessary to play the game. A version without can be downloaded for about $ 6.
