Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is Ubisoft’s upcoming game set in the world of James Cameron’s hugely successful Avatar franchise. When not adjusted for inflation, the Avatar movies are some of the highest-grossing movies of all time, with the first Avatar recently reclaiming the top spot from Avengers Endgame after some cinematic re-releases, and its sequel Avatar: The Way of Water breaking records upon its release in 2022.
Ubisoft has had prior experience with the Avatar franchise, with a 2009 movie tie-in game that served as a prequel for the first film and saw players taking control of either a member of the Na’vi or the RDA with different gameplay and weapons depending on what they chose. Ubisoft created the upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora in collaboration with Disney and James Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment, and the upcoming title promises a much larger experience than Ubisoft’s more linear 2009 title, with players able to explore a completely new area of Pandora for the first time via a massive open-world.
Currently, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora seems to be a current-gen exclusive. It will release on Amazon’s cloud-based gaming platform, Amazon Luna, PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5, with players on the latter console receiving exclusive access to the Aranahe Warrior Pack for free at launch. There’s been no word regarding any support for previous-gen hardware or a Nintendo Switch release for the game, and a release on these platforms seems highly unlikely with Ubisoft’s press release stating that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora had been exclusively developed to maximize the power of new-gen consoles and PC.
Similarly to the movies, Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora will focus on the conflict between the alien Na’vi tribe, and the RDA. The human-led RDA looks to plunder Pandora for resources, setting up many bases across the planet that cause widespread pollution, as well as harming and poaching some of the planet’s creatures, and a huge aim of the game is to destroy these bases and allow the ever-changing open-world of Pandora to organically “heal” once this pollution is lifted.
Players will assume control of a character who was a child of two worlds, born Na’vi but raised and trained by the RDA after being abducted as a child by one of the RDA’s leaders – and presumably the game’s main antagonist – John Mercer. This unique upbringing has given her experience with the RDA’s futuristic military tech as well as the tribes’ traditional longbow weapons, making her quite formidable.
2023-06-13 10:00:04
Original from screenrant.com