

These triple trap packs should be around £15 each - but the problem is that Trap Team traps generally seem to be rather hard to find, both in shops and online - which means you'll likely end up paying a premium. Traps are sold separately at about £6 a pop, but your best bet, on paper, is to plump for two triple packs to get everything in one go, one containing the tech, magic and earth traps (here's a link to the pack on Amazon), and the second the remaining undead, fire and air traps (and another link to the traps on Amazon). Getting the core elemental trapsįirst and foremost, you'll likely want to complete your collection of the eight core elements - which means nabbing yourself traps of the magic, undead, earth, fire, air and tech elements to go alongside your water and life ones. And while trapping each villain is in no way essential to finishing the game, the fact each one has a little quest associated with them in the game does make you want to 'trap em all'.Ĭhompy Mage is easily one of our favourite villains (and can be caught in the Starter Pack's life trap too!).

But if you want to play as the villains, you'll need to have a trap of the corresponding element, with each bad guy belonging to one of ten different elemental families.Īs the Starter Pack comes with water and life traps, that leaves some eight more you'll need to buy if you want to catch 'em all, two of which are a bit more involved than the others. Once captured, you can swap your Skylander out and play as your trapped villain at the touch of a button - and there's a wide range of crazy characters to play as. Trap Team's story revolves around recapturing a load of escaped villains, and beating them in a mini boss fight in order to encase them in 'traptanium' crystals, and use their powers for good instead. While older games have been as much about collecting the figures as it is about playing the game - while it's perfectly possible to finish the game with just the two included characters, some areas are locked off, requiring certain types of characters to open - Trap Team brought with it a whole new thing for you to collect - the traps.

An intro to the trapsĪssuming you've started with the Starter Pack for your console of choice, you'll have a copy of the game, two new Skylanders (the crossbow-wielding crocodile Snap Shot and the little green tomato launching Food Fight) and two traps - a green life trap, and a blue water trap. As the 3DS game is rather different, and doesn't actually make use of the titular traps, this guide is referring only to the home console versions - on 360, Xbox One, PS4, PS3, Wii U, Wii (and iOS).
