Skylanders: Trap Team
| Skylanders: Trap Team | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Toys for Bob Beenox Vicarious Visions (iOS, Android) |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Producer(s) | Dawn Pinkney Chris Wilson |
| Artist(s) | Terry Falls Lee Harker |
| Writer(s) | Alex Ness |
| Composer(s) | Lorne Balfe |
| Series | Skylanders |
| Engine | Vicarious Visions Alchemy |
| Platform(s) | |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Toys-to-life, role-playing, platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Skylanders: Trap Team is a 2014 3D platform game developed by Toys for Bob and Beenox and published by Activision. It is the fourth installment in the Skylanders video game franchise and was released on October 2, 2014, in Australasia, October 5, 2014 in North America, and October 10, 2014, in Europe, for release on Android and iOS mobile platforms, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Nintendo 3DS. It is the sequel to Skylanders: Swap Force, and features the voices of Fred Tatasciore, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Matthew Moy, Laura Bailey, Alex Ness, John Paul Karliak, Matthew Yang King, and Richard Horvitz.
Skylanders: Trap Team utilizes a near-field communication reader platform, called the Traptanium Portal, that reads NFC chips located on the bottom of figurines. The figurines are then used in-game as playable characters. It introduces a new group of Skylanders called the "Trap Masters", who work with the Portal Master to capture the criminals that Kaos has released from Cloudcracker Prison, which holds the most feared villains of Skylands. It also introduces playable villain characters that can be captured using new trap figures after they have been defeated.
A sequel, Skylanders: SuperChargers, was released in September 2015.