Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – everything we know so far
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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an upcoming Ubisoft game that will take us into the world of one of the biggest movies of all time.
Players will find themselves dropped into the rich and vibrant world of Pandora, taking part in their own standalone story in the battle between the native Na’vi and human invaders. Running on the latest iteration of Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine for the latest consoles, we’re expecting it to be a showcase of what the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 can do.
There’s still plenty we have to learn about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, but the game is coming at a great time for the series. The first of four new Avatar sequels, Avatar: The Way of Water, is slated to release in December 2022. Frontiers of Pandora is penciled in for next year but an exact release date remains unconfirmed.
Things have been fairly quiet around Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora for a while, but we’re hoping that will change now that we’re finally in its release year. Read on for everything there is to know about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora so far.
- What is it? A game set in the world of James Cameron’s Avatar movies
- When can I play it? TBC 2023
- What can I play it on? PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Stadia, and Amazon Luna
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora release date and platforms
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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will release sometime in 2023 for PS5, Xbox Series S/X, PC, Stadia and Amazon Luna.
Frontiers of Pandora was officially revealed during Ubisoft’s Ubisoft Forward showcase at E3 2021. It took us all somewhat by surprise, but we’re still waiting for Ubisoft to narrow down that release window. We know (via GameSpot ) that the game was previously delayed into Ubisoft’s financial year starting April 2022 in response to the delay of Avatar 2, the film.
Now known as Avatar: The Way of Water, the film sequel launches on December 16, 2022.
However, Frontiers of Pandora’s release, while originally targeting 2022, has since been delayed into the next financial year, which begins in March 2023.
“We want to make [Avatar] a video game industry brand. It is important for us that we come with something that is perfect.» Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot stated during an earnings call .
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora trailers
Tech Showcase
Ubisoft released a tech showcase for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and while it doesn’t show any new footage from the game, it does give a little big of an insight into what the team is looking to do with the new iteration of the Snowdrop engine.
First-look trailer
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was surprisingly revealed at Ubisoft’s Ubisoft Forward event at E3 2021 — and it’s coming in 2022. We already knew an Avatar game was in development, but we didn’t expect to see it so soon. The trailer gives us a look at Pandora, which looks arguably even more stunning than it did in the 2009 film, from its peculiar creatures to thriving flora and fauna.
But not everything is peachy in Pandora, as the RDA (or Resources Development Administration) looks to threaten not just the world but those who live in it. But the Na’vi aren’t going down without a fight. Check out the trailer below:
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora: gameplay and story
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Details on Frontiers of Pandora’s gameplay and story are a bit light, but we’ve been able to gather a few potential snippets from the reveal trailer and Ubisoft’s site.
The official site for the game describes it as a «first-person action adventure» that’s set in an «immersive, open world» and the trailer gives us a brief look at this first-person perspective. We also see a Na’vi riding a mount — that doesn’t quite look like a Direhorse — suggesting that we will hopefully be able to partake in mounted combat, or we’ll at least be able to traverse Pandora on (kind of) horseback.
The world also seems to be inhabited by creatures we both have — and haven’t — seen in the film, so expect some surprises.
There also seems to be some sort of hub for Na’vi to congregate in. We’re hoping this could mean online play — we also hope we can customize our Na’vi.
From the trailer, it also looks like Pandora’s native Na’vi will take on the RDA, like in the film, who threaten to destroy their world and have significant armed tech at their disposal. This trailer shows RDA helicopters on the warpath, trying to destroy a Na’vi. The Na’vi jumps on a Great Leonopteryx, firing arrows at the helicopter, before a final arrow fixed with an explosive device hits the vehicle, which then bursts into flames.
That’s not to say the game won’t have an original story, though. In an interview with VentureBeat , Luigi Priore, vice president of Disney and Pixar Games, said that Frontiers of Pandora will skip past the characters and plot of the original Avatar film and its upcoming sequel. Instead, it’ll be telling an all-new story.
“There was a time 15 or 20 years ago where playing the movie was something.
You bought the game and played the movie,” Priore said.
“Things like the classic Aladdin game on Sega Genesis. You played the film. That was popular at the time, but gamers expect more now. They want to interact with their favorite characters and worlds, but they want to play new stories and do new things with those characters and worlds. The whole idea is to have it be part of the storyline of that giant franchise on Pandora, but it’s not a ‘play the movie’ game. It’s an all new open world, new characters,» Priore added.
«That’s why it’s called Frontiers of Pandora. It takes place on another frontier, another area of the moon of Pandora.»
According to the game’s official site , the game will take players into a «standalone story» where they’ll «play as a Na’vi and embark on a journey across the Western Frontier, a never-before-seen part of Pandora. Explore a living and reactive world inhabited by unique creatures and new characters, and push back the formidable RDA forces that threaten it.
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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora: news and rumors
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James Cameron shares his thoughts on Frontiers of Pandora
James Cameron has revealed his thoughts on Ubisoft’s upcoming game during an IGN interview. Confirming he’s taking a hands-off approach, he explained:
«We’re very excited about what Ubisoft is doing with their game authoring. I don’t tell them what to do — they know their world, their business, their market. We just keep a close eye that they don’t do anything that’s not canonical in terms of Na’vi culture and what the RDA is doing on Pandora and all that sort of thing.”
Studio boss departs
Ubisoft Massive studio head, David Polfeldt, has confirmed that he is leaving the studio later this year, after 17 years there.
Previously, Polfeldt had taken a step back from his managing director role, stating an intention to return in a strategic role after a six-month break. However, it has now been reported (via VGC ) that he will be leaving Ubisoft entirely.
Polfeldt’s decision is partly driven by the growing numbers of staff at Ubisoft Massive, telling Hit Points, “I think my philosophy and my skills work well for a certain kind of group of a certain kind of size. I don’t think I’m the right manager for what the studio has become. I’m perfectly at peace with it.”
Between the development of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the open-world Star Wars project the studio is working on, it’s no surprise that it’s expanding rapidly.
Years of post launch content
Ubisoft is planning a long life for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora when it releases next year it seems. In a recent Q2 earnings call (via TweakTown ), Ubisoft CFO Frederick Duguet said, «Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is a big game next to the highly-awaited movie. The development is progressing well and is a beautiful world delivered by the Snowdrop engine. That will be a very long game in terms of content delivered over many years.»
“Coming along nicely”
It’s been a little while since we’ve had an official update on the progress of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, but in September 2021 industry insider Tom Henderson tweeted to say that it’s apparently “coming along nicely”.
Henderson is known for accurate information in his leaks, primarily around the Battlefield series, and added that he will “hopefully” have more information to give on the upcoming Avatar game “by the end of the year.” Though it doesn’t really give much away about the game, if Henderson’s information is correct, it does at least suggest the game could still be on track to release sometime in 2022.
Avatar: Frontier of Pandora is coming along nicely :)I’ll have info on that by the end of the year hopefully. pic.twitter.com/1WqCtKsSxUSeptember 16, 2021
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NPCs will “understand the state of the world”
In a video showcasing the tech behind the game , the development team of Avatar have been discussing how the game’s NPCs will behave and react more realistically to the game’s world. Lead Narrative Realization Designer, Alice Rendell, says that “The different activities that NPCs can perform in the world, and the different animations they have, can make the world feel really alive.
” As a result, according to Rendell, the team “wanted to take this one step further and created a system where our NPCs understand the state of the world – for example, weather, player progression, or time of day.”
Even plant life will react in some way, with Senior technical artist Kunal Luthra explaining that “The advantage of Snowdrop is that it can handle quite complex shaders. To add life to the vegetation of Pandora, we’ve created many interactive shaders that can be affected by the player, from real-time wind simulations and interactions, to intelligent plants reacting to your presence.”
Powered by Snowdrop
We know that Frontiers of Pandora is built in Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine, with games such as Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle having already used this engine.
“In February 2017, it was announced that we are embarking on an amazing journey, together with Lightstorm Entertainment and FoxNext Games, to the world of Pandora, developing a new cutting-edge game set on the beautiful and dangerous moon from the prominent Avatar film franchise,” Massive Entertainment site reads..jpg){kind=avatar}
“Our studio is leveraging its expertise and its proprietary technology, the Snowdrop engine, to deliver the wonders of Pandora to everyone. Players will be immersed in this astonishing world.”
Delayed to coincide with Avatar 2
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is due to land in 2022, as is the Avatar film sequel: Avatar 2. While we’re not quite sure when the Avatar game was due to release initially, we do know its release was delayed following the delay of the film — which now isn’t releasing until December 2022. With Avatar 2 releasing in late 2022, it’s possible that we could see Frontiers of Pandora releasing in late 2022 too, to coincide with its release. Though this is speculation at this point. Either way, we’re sure the developers will appreciate having as much time as possible to polish up the gameplay. Could it be that rarest of things – a movie tie-in that doesn’t suck, and releases on time?
A focus on the current-gen
Developer Ubisoft Massive has detailed why Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora won’t release on last-gen machines like PS4 and Xbox One.
As you’d expect, it’s for technical reasons.
In an interview with IGN , Technical Director of Programming Nikolay Stefanov explained just how much more of a scene can be rendered on PS5 and Xbox Series X thanks to their more powerful tech, explaining: “[New consoles allowed] us to have much better object detail up close to you, but also when you’re flying high up in the air – to have a lovely vista and far-distance rendering, where we can even use the ray tracing to do shadows super far away, you know, three or four kilometers away from you.»
This should also mean that areas like dense jungles and forests will be able to load and render far more efficiently than on last-gen tech. Areas such as these traditionally struggle to maintain a steady frame rate and texture quality due to the sheer amount of objects that have to be rendered on screen at any given time.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora: what we want to see
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It’s incredibly early days for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – we’ve seen the first-ever trailer, on the back of little to no pre-release leaks.
So we’re very much wandering in the dark about what we could experience in the game.
But if there are two key elements to the franchise, based on the first film at least, that’s the relationship between humans and the Na’vi, and the wondrous nature of the planet Pandora itself.
So first up, we’re really hoping for a big, explorable game world to enjoy – Ubisoft has excellent experience making huge open-world games with Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, but it’s never had as imaginative a backdrop as Pandora to tap into. The colorful sci-fi planet, full of alien creatures and wild plants, would have potentially huge secrets to uncover – we’re hoping Ubisoft doesn’t have to stick too closely to any film plot and is able to stretch its legs over the potential that the world offers.
The other thing we’d love to see, like the film, is the interplay between humans and the Na’vi. Rather than play as just one race, we’re hoping we get the opportunity to play as both. The Na’vi has really interesting relationships with the nature around them, letting them ride creatures and make use of primitive weaponry, while the humans have gunships, mechs, and all that cool sci-fi machinery you associate with James Cameron’s best work.
To paraphrase that most excellent of memes , why not [play as] both?
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Avatar Video Game Title and Release Date —
BY Arvyn Braich August 17, 2022October 4, 2022
Things are getting pretty exciting in Avatar: The Last Airbender! Recently, insiders confirmed that a series of films are coming out, and they’ll be based on iconic characters from the franchise.
One of these films will focus on Korra’s character, one about Kyushu, and one about Zuko. Then there’s also the live-action series that Netflix is creating. Now, we’ve got some more exciting news – an Avatar video game is coming too!
For this game, Square Enix London Mobile and Paramount Consumer Products are teaming together to release the game. It will be an RPG game, and fans won’t have long to wait. In fact, Square Enix confirmed that they’ll be soft-launching the Avatar video game in some territories later this month. Additionally, they confirmed the game’s name – Avatar Generations. How exciting!
Avatar Video Game News
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Unfortunately, Square Enix didn’t reveal much about the Avatar video game. However, what we do know is that it’s coming to mobile, specifically Android and iOS systems. Square Enix also confirmed that the game would be free-to-play, following the model of many other tie-in games from big franchises.
Additionally, the team also mentioned that the first countries to receive the game would be South Africa, Canada, Sweden, and Denmark. The exact release date is unclear, but Square Enix did say it’ll be coming in August.
As part of this soft launch, fans will get access to the first chapter of the game. However, you’ll have to wait until Square Enix releases the game everywhere to play the full game. As part of the first chapter, fans will get to play alongside some of the most iconic characters from the series. These include Zuko, Suki, Katara, Toph, Sokka – and, of course, Aang! Also, Square Enix stated that in later chapters of the Avatar video game, fans would also see other familiar faces. This will include Korra from The Legend of Korra and Roku and Kyushu from the original series, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Although they didn’t reveal a whole lot about the plot, we do know that Square Enix is working with Navigator Games for the Avatar video game.
Navigator Games has worked on many turn-based RPGs, including Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast. As such, it’s pretty clear that the game will be turn-based. As part of the press release, Square Enix has mentioned “epic squad-based battles and unique adventure sequences, underpinned by deep upgrade and party customization systems.”
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You can check out the press release for the Avatar video game below:
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Ubisoft has unveiled Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, a first-person adventure game set in the universe of James Cameron’s famous sci-fi movie Avatar. The new trailer highlighted the central conflict familiar to all fans of the tape, focusing on the dogfight between humans and the Na`vi.
First announced back in February 2017, the game is built on Ubisoft’s proprietary Snowdrop engine, the same technology that powers the popular Tom Clancy’s The Division shooter. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is being developed by Massive Entertainment in partnership with Lightstorm Entertainment and Disney itself, which currently owns all rights to the franchise.
“In this new, standalone story, play as a Na`vi and embark on a journey to the Western Frontier, a previously unexplored part of Pandora. Explore the living world of the planet, populated by unique creatures and new characters, and try to protect it from the forces of the RDA that threaten it, «says the official description of the game.
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