Released on Meta Quest VR in April 2023 to widespread acclaim, Breachers is a Rainbow Six Siege-style 5v5 tactical shooter that's now available on PSVR2. You and four teammates assume the role of either 'Enforcers' or 'Revolters'; the former team is tasked with infiltrating the location and disarming bombs, while the latter must strive to prevent this happening.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Review (PS5) | Push Square
16.12.2023 - 15:18 / pushsquare.com / James Cameron
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a game this writer has been waiting a long time for. In many ways, it is the Hogwarts Legacy for fans of big blue folk and vibrant alien worlds. But with that apt comparison and Ubisoft Massive at the helm, does it do enough to stand on its own two feet? Or is it nothing more than a pretty tour through Avatar’s greatest hits? While it certainly is pretty and it does its best to hit those Avatar beats, Frontiers of Pandora actually won us over with one of the most enchanting open-worlds available on PS5.
It’s easy to write that off as a given, considering the fervour cinema-goers had for the world of James Cameron’s mega-hit series. However, there was a lot Ubi Massive could have gotten wrong with this interpretation. Thankfully, though, Massive teamed up with Lightstorm, Cameron’s film company, to ensure that it doesn’t just look and feel like Pandora: it is Pandora.
Everything you see, touch, hear, and explore is canon to the Avatar universe, meaning it receives the same level of attention to detail and care for its lore as the main films do. What this results in is one of Ubisoft’s best open worlds to date — a setting that lives and breathes and is an utter delight to explore.
As a young Na’Vi child kidnapped and raised by the immoral RDA, you’ve spent your life in captivity — contained within grey steel walls. However, the events of the first film mean you're put into cryosleep and left in your slumber for 15 years. Awakened at the same time as the events of Avatar: The Way Of Water you are let loose in The Western Frontier, a new region to the universe.
This acts as the foundation for the game’s story, which sees your very own Na’Vi reconnecting with the ways of their people. From the outset, your task is to take the fight to the RDA who are spoiling the world for its resources. You’ll explore three regions, coming into contact with different tribes, each affected by the humans in their own ways. On this basis, Frontiers of Pandora is fine. There is an elevated sense of love and care to the story of the resistance, especially as you delve deeper into the ways of a clan like the Zeswa or Kame’Tire. However, when it comes to the big story moments, it goes about exactly as you would expect.
Instead, the real value of the game lies in your free-roaming experience. For one, it’s easily one of the best-looking games on PS5. We were continually impressed as we explored the depths of the Kinglor Forest or rode our Direhorse across the Upper Plains. The level of detail and the density of its foliage is an absolute wonder — and it certainly helps that our biggest performance issue was a slight bit of pop-in. The sound design too has to be mentioned, because it entirely
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