We've reached the last month of an incredible year in gaming, closing the season with a final rush of exciting titles as the Christmas holiday period fast approaches. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X — is easily the biggest launch in December, transporting players to the never-seen-before Western Frontier of Pandora, teeming with awe-inspiring creatures and luminescent vegetation. It's a bit reminiscent of the James Cameron movies, in the sense that you awaken as a Na'vi orphan and are thrust into battle against the Resources Development Administration (RDA), the corporation looking to harvest natural resources from the beautiful alien moon planet.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Review
19.12.2023 - 16:26 / thesixthaxis.com / James Cameron
Humans are horrible. You don’t need an allegory about the environment filled with blue aliens to tell you that. However, the joy of James Cameron’s Avatar isn’t in its humans, or the azure Na’vi, it’s in the vibrant, living world of Pandora. From the instant you start Frontiers of Pandora, it’s clear that Ubisoft has done an incredible job bringing this world to life, and while you bathe in the neon glow of its incredible wildlife, you’ll discover a people whose lives and culture you’ll want to protect.
Update 19/12/23 – This is now our final scored review of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
The opening of our tale sees you experience some severe childhood trauma, as you’re ‘saved’ by the RDA, who are conducting a human/Na’vi programme that’s supposed to be about intertwining cultures but is mostly about training Na’vi to be soldiers within the human military complex. This is less about protection and more about abduction, but when Jake Sully starts a revolution, this little experiment is supposed to meet a vicious end. Fortunately, you’re saved by your tutor, and put into a cryogenic slumber until the time is right for you to be extracted. As it turns out, that’s at the exact moment that the RDA also make their return to this part of Pandora, and you’re suddenly a part of the resistance fighting them off.
That mention of Jake Sully may, if you’ve watched the Avatar movies, make you think that this is part of the mainline Avatar storyline, but while it’s set in the same period and has the occasional nod to or mention of Jake’s disruptive shenanigans, this is a separate storyline set on the other side of the planet. It’s a good decision, not least because Jake’s somewhat worthy fight has already been played out across many hours of cinema, but because you can forge your own identity within the Na’vi people.
You’re a member of the Sarentu, a tribe that was thought destroyed, but whose lineage as diplomats, storytellers and peacekeepers make you an ideal choice to travel the western continent, building relationships and gaining the support of the disparate tribes who live there. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora lives and dies on these interactions, and I found myself thoroughly drawn into the conversations, asides and side-quests that each tribe gives to you. Some are petty squabbles or family disputes, while others, such as an early quest when you’re learning to hunt, are poignant, emotional and moving.
This continent of Pandora is immense. Overwhelmingly so. At first, you’ll worry that Ubisoft have pulled that open-world trick of spreading things too thin and that the huge map is going to be covered in a spread of meaningless objective markers, and yet, that feeling never materialises. The key to that is your
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