It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything regardingAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the open-world Avatar game that’s currently in development. Ubisoft itself stated that game would launchat some point during this fiscal year, and a release date has now been confirmed during the latest Ubisoft Forward Showcase alongside a lengthy gameplay trailer, giving us a look at how Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will play for the first time.
The trailer began with the reveal that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will have you play as a N’avi who has escaped the capture of the RDA and is fighting back with their own tribe after being put on cryosleep for 15 years. Having been trained by the RDA itself, you’lkl be very familiar with all kinds of human weaponry as well as weapons made by your own tribe. We also eventually got the reveal that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will launch later this year on December 7.
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In terms of gameplay, we begin by seeing a first person perspective of the player character, who uses plants to leap across and gaps and climb up vines. Flying around on a Great Leonoptyrex seems to be a big part of the game, while the closing moments of the trailers show the character mounting a full scale assault on an RDA base, taking down machines and soldiers with a variety of weapons such as a rocket launcher and a bow and arrow.
If that wasn’t enough, we then got an extended gameplay overview trailer, which showed off the open world of the Western Frontier. The world will have a number of different biomes, each with their own unique traits. You’ll be able to look after, feed, and customise your own Great Leonoptyrex, and ride other creatures across Pandora that you’ll need to approach carefully and tame.
If you were hoping that Avatar creator James Cameron would be working on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, then you’re going to be a little disappointed, It’s already been confirmed thatCameron is having a fairly hands-off approacand letting Ubisoft tell its own story in the Avatar world, and is literally only on hand to make sure the developer doesn’t “do anything that’s not canonical in terms of Na’vi culture”. That means we unfortunately don’t have another James Cameron story to look forward to, but at least the game will be authentic.
As for what esle was announced during the show, we gota further look at Assassin’s Creed Mirage,some new gameplay footage for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, anda first look at Star Wars: Outlaws.
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