This game isn't as bad as others make it out to be.
I think that Vivendi Universal learned from their mistakes in Enter the Dragonfly and improved things. It still doesn't capture the whimsy and magic of the original Spyros and often tries too hard to be funny, but it suffices. Well, except for the map system, which wins the award for Most Frustrating Game Addition that Should be Good But Isn't. Seriously, it makes me cry. Okay, not really, but it makes me through my Wavebird against the ground which results in my mom making get off the Gamecube and go to bed. Dang. Also, add an uninteresting and majorly clichéd storyline...poor, poor Insomniac...thier child has failed them in this respect.
GRAPHICS: 7/10
Yeah, whatever. Everything's all fluid, and character s look good, but...I don't see much effort put into level design. The PlayStation titles had such awesome levels and everything, and these are just sorta...meh.
SOUND: 7/10
Nothing special here, just some mediocre voice acting, sound effects, and some good music. Absolutely nothing groundbreaking or even that intriguing, for that matter.
VALUE: 6/10
This game will be exciting, then boring, then exciting, then boring, and on and on like that for quite a while until you realize that Blockbuster's going to send thugs after you if you don't return it, and you decide that it wouldn't be all that much of a loss and give it back.
TILT: 8/10
I liked it, probably because I've been a longtime Spyro junkie. It's probably just me. Anyone who likes Spyro and wants to feel some of that great feeling you get when you start playing a new Spyro game, go rent it.