Can you use the skylander's giants characters with the Skylanders Spiro's Adventure Game?

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure isn't sold separately in stores, it only comes in a Starter Pack that includes another Portal and 3 characters. You might be able to find the SSA software separately on eBay, and that will work - your Giants Portal will work just fine with SSA.

Most of the Skylanders: Giants toys will work, but not all. Any of the 'new' characters built for Giants will not - meaning all 8 giants, plus the 8 new 'core' characters. The rest of the Giants toys are called 'Series 2' Skylanders - meaning they're the same CHARACTERS that are seen in SSA, but in new poses.

I looked for a link that has a list of SSA characters; I included it below but it may not be as clear as I'd like it to be. It has posters of the SSA characters and the Giants characters. If you see a character in the Skylanders: Giants poster that is ALSO in the SSA poster, then the toy from Giants is usable in SSA.

Hope this helps!

The 4 characters you suggested will artwork in the two video games, so which you would be unable to bypass incorrect with the two. the unique sport is super on the Wii yet not as solid on the X360 and PS3 (buggier), so in case you have a Wii i could advise commencing with SSA and then purchase Giants faster or later later. in case you're X360/PS3 then bypass SSA and bypass to Giants.