UBISOFT held its annual Ubisoft Forward event last night, and among all the games was a surprising first look at the developer’s upcoming Avatar game.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is set in the world of the Avatar and Avatar: The Way of the Water, but Ubisoft says won’t be a retelling of those films.
Instead, Ubisoft says the game will be following its own original storyline, set on a never-before-seen continent in Pandora called the Western Frontier.
The announcement trailer shown during the presentation showed small snippets of story and gameplay, and fans have been reacting strongly to both.
The story has you playing as a Na’vi who was abducted by humans and put into a strict training regime for 15 years, before being freed and left to wander the Western Frontier.
Ubisoft says players will ‘discover what it truly means to be a Na’vi’ while also joining up with other Na’vi to fight back a human invasion.
The gameplay on the other hand has you playing in first-person mode, as you explore the world and combat against humans and wild creatures on Pandora.
You’ll be able to utilise different combat styles, including using human weapons like guns and Na’vi combat tools like bows and arrows.
There will also be a wide range of other abilities, like sliding in combat and the ability to fly around the world on the back of a flying banshee.
Many have compared the gameplay aspect of the trailer to Far Cry, another one of Ubisoft’s long-running series that has garnered critical acclaim across its multiple entries.
It’s also been compared to Starfield, another first-person game shown off recently that’s set in alien worlds, but has more of an RPG feel to it.
Ubisoft has said that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will launch on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC on December 7.
Written by Oliver Brandt on behalf of GLHF.
