Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Review. A box full of surprises of all kinds.

The Avatar saga from the hand of Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment, came to the genre «Open World» with elements of Far Cry, Finally an Avatar game to rise to the occasion? Find out in this review.

Development:

To place ourselves in context with the game, we must not forget the forgettable and painful delivery that the saga had back in 2009 with «Avatar The Game» a clone of «Gears of War» bad and forced to leave only by the success that the first film generated.

However, since Ubisoft showed the first trailer of «Avatar Frontiers of Pandora» back in March 2017 everything was illusions that many were fulfilled others not so much.

The story begins when being prisoners of RDA (military humans) we try to get rid of this oppression without luck, then we realize that all these events are before the first film, since then (a few years later) we learn that it was thanks to the exploits of Jake Sully, a new opportunity to escape is presented to us.

Already in Pandora and hallucinated with so many graphics and excellent detail that the PS5 power gives the game, we begin our journey in a Na’vi body, which are nothing more and nothing less than the natives of this planet Pandora, beings with indigenous features and blue hue; We will gradually begin to use the bow and arrow, and even machine guns, we will learn to heal with a fruit that grows near the rivers, all this before reaching the base of resistance, it is at this time when we see that the game is taking shape very slowly.

Already at the base of the resistance we will begin to take dimension of how big the game is, and not only we can buy new weapons, but there is also the possibility of building them a workbench, also modify them, and this not only concerns the firearms or piercing as the bow, but the armor of our character also as are the breastplates, wristbands, skirts and so on. Each piece will have a color; white from the most common, good green, supreme violet and legendary gold.

These attributes not only add a higher resale value, but as the color increases the level of effectiveness is higher.

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora mixes many elements ranging from RPG, Far Cry style exploration (Ubisoft’s legendary franchise) to the Playstation Horizon saga.

Not only will we have to kill and fight against the military humans that contaminate all of Pandora, but the collection is also essential, and these ingredients not only serve to make the aforementioned but also serve to prepare meals, indeed in «Avatar Frontiers of Pandora» we will have to be very aware of our food, which I think is great. In addition to collect these ingredients that grow in all types of soils of Pandora will have to follow a series of commands guided with the help of Dualsense, at first it is difficult however the pattern with each plant or ingredient of the same species is the same, so getting used to it is not difficult.

Combat and story:

Combat is very good, but very unbalanced, there are main missions that even having the same level or the level that the mission recommends will make us practically impossible to overcome them and forcing us to do secondary missions quite homogeneous to go with a higher level and overcome these missions and continue with the story.

The story is the same, it suffers from a fairly high level where the knot on several occasions is lost, however, the activities in Pandora are immense and not only will have to fight against the RDA but also we must and we can hunt, for that we will have a hunting guide in which we will know which cuts of meat we can get from each animal. As I said a lot of things makes the game necessarily move away from others.

Another point is to decontaminate the areas of human machinery so that they are purified, a very particular fact of the Far Cry saga that is very latent here.

And finally there are the mounts where we can ride the Ikran a kind of bird reptile that will amaze us taking us through the skies of Pandora.

Graphics and sound:

The graphics do honor to James Cameron’s film becoming incredibly realistic as in the movie, insects, the realism of how the flora shine at night, is practically beautiful and something you can not miss, the music and more in battles is amazing and continues the legacy of the melodies of the films.

Conclusion:

«Avatar Frontiers of Pandora» is a good game that passes the «just for fans» meter maybe we expect a little more, but that doesn’t keep it away from being a very good game.

Editor: Joe Tesone.

Note: 8. Very good

We thank Ubisoft for the copy provided on Playstation 5 in order to make this review.