Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000)

Insomniac Games

PlayStation · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation Portable

4.10 from 1232 ratings

2469 members have it in their collection · 32 playing now · 369 backlogged · 200 wish listed

How long? Main story 7h · with extras 7h · 100% 14h (from 7 logged playthroughs)

Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the third installment in the Spyro series and the last Spyro game Insomniac developed. In this 3D adventure, Spyro have to retrieve 150 eggs that the evil Sorceress has stolen from Dragonworld. To survive, he will have to utilize all of his signature moves along with several he's recently picked up, like the ability … Read more
Spyro: Year of the Dragon is the third installment in the Spyro series and the last Spyro game Insomniac developed. In this 3D adventure, Spyro have to retrieve 150 eggs that the evil Sorceress has stolen from Dragonworld. To survive, he will have to utilize all of his signature moves along with several he's recently picked up, like the ability to control vehicles like tanks, submarines, and speedboats. As an extra bonus, you have the option to choose from a wacky cast of characters: Sheila the kangaroo, Sergeant Byrd the flying penguin, Bentley the Yeti and Agent 9 the space monkey. Read less
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Developers
Insomniac Games
Publishers
Sony Computer Entertainment
Genres
Adventure, Platform, Puzzle
Themes
Action, Comedy
Franchises
Spyro the Dragon
Series
Spyro the Dragon

Release dates

  • Oct 10, 2000 (North_America) PlayStation
  • Nov 10, 2000 (Europe) PlayStation
  • Jun 08, 2001 (Australia) PlayStation
  • May 14, 2009 (North_America) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable
  • Dec 12, 2012 (Europe) PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable

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459
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485
3 stars
244
2 stars
36
1 star
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beto7100

Status beto7100 Jul 25, 2025

Played the PS4 version of the game, just as funny and entertaining as I remember as a kid, love to get it to 100% and all trophies finally.

catgirl

Status catgirl Sep 4, 2024

Finished playing this and I think that this game is better than Spyro 2 (but still highly inferior to Spyro 1). I liked to play with other characters, Sheila can jump really high, Sgt. Byrd is the only one who can actually fly here (though I don't like he as a character, I think that Madagascar did better lol) and …

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Finished playing this and I think that this game is better than Spyro 2 (but still highly inferior to Spyro 1). I liked to play with other characters, Sheila can jump really high, Sgt. Byrd is the only one who can actually fly here (though I don't like he as a character, I think that Madagascar did better lol) and Bentley smash things. But I hated the monkey.

I liked some of the mini-games too, the Sheila side scrolling mini-game, the slides, the find the dog and find the bones mini-game, the skate mini-game (but it's difficult to land and I hate mini-games with a timer so I just did the first one).

I also had to farm some eggs by the end of the game to unlock the last boss (while in Spyro 2 I could just fight the final boss without played any of the levels of the last home world lol).

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catgirl

Status catgirl Jul 28, 2024

I loved Spyro as a kid, I almost finished the 1st Spyro but it bugged in the final battle so I never actually finished until recently, and I still love the game and did everything (except the annoying high speed flying levels lol). Then I played Spyro 2 and hated it, I hated those stupid mini-games!! And unfortunately Spyro 3 …

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I loved Spyro as a kid, I almost finished the 1st Spyro but it bugged in the final battle so I never actually finished until recently, and I still love the game and did everything (except the annoying high speed flying levels lol). Then I played Spyro 2 and hated it, I hated those stupid mini-games!! And unfortunately Spyro 3 suffers from the same problem, and now the mini-games even have their own separate areas, wth, all of them are so annoying ._.

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BleppinDrago

Status BleppinDrago May 3, 2024

I got every egg in the game. Couldn't leave those baby dragons. Went ahead and collected all the treasure too. The rocket sled race at the end was insane though. I finally found out about a glitch where I stand inside a blue star for a minute before the race for infinite boost. There was no way I was getting …

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I got every egg in the game. Couldn't leave those baby dragons. Went ahead and collected all the treasure too. The rocket sled race at the end was insane though. I finally found out about a glitch where I stand inside a blue star for a minute before the race for infinite boost. There was no way I was getting the last egg otherwise.

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Daninokuni

Status Daninokuni Dec 28, 2021

Okay, here we go again. I've finished this game tons of times, less than Spyro 1 and 2, though. I hadn't the game when I was a child because the CD didn't work.

Anyway, another playthrough on the go. I absolutely love this game. Even if I think Spyro 2 is a better game (because in the last world it's …

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Okay, here we go again. I've finished this game tons of times, less than Spyro 1 and 2, though. I hadn't the game when I was a child because the CD didn't work.

Anyway, another playthrough on the go. I absolutely love this game. Even if I think Spyro 2 is a better game (because in the last world it's obvious they did run out of time), Spyro 3 is probably my favourite Spyro game and one of my favourite platforms games in history along Jak 3.

So, time to replay it again.

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maeday

Status maeday Jan 6, 2021

Spyro 3 is SO BAD. I'd really like to ask Insomniac what the hell happened between the 1st and 3rd games, because while Spyro 2 isn't as good as the first, it's still a fairly solid title. But this? Oh MAN this is traaaash. I thought maybe playing it for the first time in the Reignited version would make it …

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Spyro 3 is SO BAD. I'd really like to ask Insomniac what the hell happened between the 1st and 3rd games, because while Spyro 2 isn't as good as the first, it's still a fairly solid title. But this? Oh MAN this is traaaash. I thought maybe playing it for the first time in the Reignited version would make it better, but nope. In fact, if anything, it only shows how much more glaring all its flaws are.

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