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Spyro: Year of the Dragon

The third game in the Spyro series, and the last to be made by Insomniac Games. Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the biggest of all the Spyro games so far made. It incorporates several new playable characters as well as a new evil to fight.

In this game you play mainly as Spyro, but there are certain levels and parts of levels where you can only play as a different character. The playable characters in this game are: Spyro, Sparx, Hunter, Sheila the Kangaroo, Sgt. James Byrd, Bently the Yeti and Agent 9.


Oct 11th 2000	Nov 10th 2000

The Story

Every twelve years, the Dragon Kingdom celebrates its most important event: the "Year of the Dragon" Festival. Fairies deliver a new batch of dragon eggs and dragons come from all around to dance and feast until everyone drops from...eggshaustion.

The Year of the Dragon is upon us again and the fairies have brought 150 eggs to the Dragon Worlds. However, unbeknownst to the celebrating dragons, a sinister plot is about to unfold...

Far away - on the opposite side of the world - lies a kingdom long since forgotten by dragonkind. So forgotten, in fact, that even the legends about these "Forgotten Worlds" have now been forgotten.

This kingdom is ruled by a mean and spiteful Sorceress who has frankly become quite fed up with being forgotten. As she sits on her forgotten throne, the Sorceress has hatched a fiendishly evil plan. A plan to restore the fading magic to her forgotten realm. A plan to conquer the dragons once and for all. All she needs is a little help from her army of horn-nosed 'rhynocs', the cooperation of her mysterious disciple Bianca and of course, those 150 magical dragon eggs.

The Controls

Spyro the Dragon
Button	Action
X	Jump. Press again when in the air to glide
Square	Charge
Circle	Flame/Spit out rock
Triangle	Look around/Aim rock/Drop out of glide/Headbash when just jumped
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Spyro fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Sheila the Kangaroo
Button	Action
X	Jump. Press again when in the air to go higher. Press again the moment you land to double jump
Square	Kick
Circle	Kick
Triangle	Look around/Headbash when just jumped
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Sheila fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Sgt. Byrd
Button	Action
X	Fly, hold to go higher
Square	Drop bomb/projectile
Circle	Fire guns
Triangle	Look around/Aim
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Sgt. Byrd fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Bentley the Yeti
Button	Action
X	Jump
Square	Thump
Circle	Spin club
Triangle	Look around
R1/L1	Bring the camera behind Bentley fast
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Agent 9
Button	Action
X	Jump
Square	Throw Bomb
Square (hold)	Aim Bomb
Circle	Fire Weapon
Triangle	Sniper Mode
R1/L1	Zoom in/out in sniper mode
R1/L1	Dodge left/right
R2/L2	Turn the camera
R1+R2+L1+L2	Sparx points at nearest gem (only available when you've earned it)

Gems are strangely identical to the last game. Strangely because Avalar and The Forgotten Worlds are most likely further away from each other then the Dragon Realms is from the Forgotten Worlds. Strange how they have the Avalar set of gems rather than the Dragon Realms set, maybe the Sorceress had the GemCutters in from Avalar though.

Gem Colour	Gem Value
Red	1
Green	2
Purple	5
Yellow	10
Pink	25

The same containers for the gems as in Avalar. However here you get gems from killing the Rhynocs whereas in Avalar they released a Spirit Particle. Also this game sees the return of a locked chest, slightly different in appearence from the first game, but you will still need to find a key to open them.

Anyway, on with the walkthrough, and on to Sunrise Spring!

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Comments

#585 spyro12 01:00:10 08/10/2008

i love this game a lot

#584 spyro22 22:35:34 07/10/2008

umm flame and ember never appeard in this game and you forgot stg bird he is the coolest character in this game next to agent 9 actualy in front of agent 9

#583 spyro12 22:23:29 07/10/2008

I love this game is rocks you have bently shelia the kagaroo hunter spyro agent9. plus old faces like flame ember and money bags

#582 spyro22 15:37:37 07/10/2008

i meant i agree ignore last post

#581 spyro22 02:13:01 07/10/2008

o agree

#580 spyro 21:25:30 05/10/2008

this game rocks its asome im tellin you this game rocks!!!

#579 spyro 03:48:31 04/10/2008

this is oficaly the best game in history numer owno spyro3 the best game in history gem collecting awsome bosses skate bording boxing canon mini game aciton makes this a lol out load awsome funny game this game has track records bently spyro hunter flame agent9 sgt bird shelia the kangaro ember and old faces lik money bags and awsome worlds secrets and at least a hundred mini games ok 150 dragon eggs learn evrey single dragon and more light thats alot so get that game youll never ever touch your play station 2 and 1 games for three years

#578 Spyros_fan 14:58:20 03/10/2008

This was my first Spyro game, and my favorite. actually it was my brother's but I stole it

#577 spyro the hero 00:04:37 03/10/2008

hay anyone over 18 because you could submit an idea i have for a spyro tv series?

#576 the me guy 22:53:54 02/10/2008

ALWAYS say no first to moneybags, the funniest quotes of the game happen when you say no. ex no to ice skating : what are you saving your money for? another sequel?

#575 the me guy 22:39:39 02/10/2008

i wonder why there is no jappanese game title image. (they looked cool)

#574 Dark Spyro 01:55:55 29/09/2008

You gotta admit, it is an awesome game. A shame that they don't make the games in THIS version, though...I find it much more better and usable~