Skylanders Brings Mobile Card Battling to Life in an All-New Way Starting Today with Skylanders Battlecast
Collect Cards, Build The Ultimate Deck, and Battle Friends and Foes to Achieve Legendary Status!
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Favorite Skylanders characters battle it out in Skylanders Battlecast with new twists, attacks and power-ups fans will love to explore. (Graphic: Business Wire)
In honor of the worldwide launch today, Battlecasters can now try their
hand at defeating
In Skylanders Battlecast, players simply download the game from their mobile app store and can begin their quest to become the ultimate Battlecaster. To enhance gameplay, players can purchase Booster Packs and Battle Packs from local retailers or digitally from the game. The special card packs bring Skylanders Battlecast cards to life in a magical way as players scan their physical cards with their mobile devices to watch cards spring to life through augmented reality. Amplifying the experience, the game also allows players to add cards to an in-game digital spell book. By collecting more cards, players will have more pieces to customize their deck for battle!
"We continue to provide a variety of fun new ways for fans to explore Skylanders
and Skylanders Battlecast is an amazing new innovation,"
says
Activision assembled a team of experts across video game design, physical card game design, pro card players and top card artists to develop Skylanders Battlecast. Unlike traditional trading card and mobile battle games, Skylanders Battlecast offer fans premium graphical fidelity in the form of a fully 3D-rendered gameplay experience that is incredibly fun and highly strategic. Players can collect up to 300 Character, Spell, Gear and Relic cards, including foil variants, to fight their way through more than 60 missions across eight elemental islands. The more challenges completed within each mission, the more rewards are earned.
Skylanders
Battlecast will be available via the
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