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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!

Walkthrough »

Comments

#1125 Spyro Avenger 18:29:50 28/06/2011

Cool this was my first game too!

#1124 spyrathedragon 02:45:41 28/06/2011

This was the first Spyro game I had. I still love to play it, it's so fun to skateboard and find eggs. All of the mini-games are challenging and fun!

#1123 Cynderstar12 17:49:42 27/06/2011

Agreed.

#1122 woogidie 17:13:51 27/06/2011

Best Spyro in history

#1121 sparky87 16:50:41 27/06/2011

the best part is the skateboarding!! itwas cool to have hunter be there

#1120 Spyro Avenger 07:46:15 25/06/2011

AHHHHHHH I HATE my Playstation 3. Right as I was about to beat the game my Playstation shut off and lost all my progress. I have to start ALL over again!!!!!!

#1119 ps1spyrofan 20:58:06 20/06/2011

i think spyro 12&3 should still be sold in walmart or target ive never played 2 BUT 1&3 r the bomb P.S. i dont realy care for the new spyros cuz u dont go around look for gems and eggs or dragons

#1118 spyrorocks101 04:21:37 18/06/2011

PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#1117 spyrorocks101 19:32:24 17/06/2011

thx

buddy

#1116 Cynderstar12 19:44:16 15/06/2011

GOOOOOO SPYRO BUDDY!

let's part Cyn!

Woop! Woop!

#1115 spyrorocks101 19:03:27 15/06/2011

YES I JUST COMPLETED IT 100% YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

#1114 SuperSpyroFan 13:04:46 12/06/2011

My first Spyro game is Spyro 2, then not long after I got Enter the Dragonfly, and not long after that I got Spyro 1 and Spyro 3 both at the same time. I suppose the first ever Spyro game I have touched was a demo of Spyro 1 just before I got Spyro 2. I guess I was a little bit of a late comer to the series, but not that late, only by a couple of years.

I got Spyro 2 in 2000, Enter the Dragonfly in 2002, Spyro 1 and 3 in 2003.

#1113 Cynderstar12 12:50:45 12/06/2011

A friend of mine bought an illeagal copy of the game by accident and when she went to leave for midday gardens Zoey the fairy told her it was illeagla and she told me she burst into tears.