Player says Ubisoft’s Frontiers of Pandora outshines Avatar: Fire and Ash

Kotaku wrote that the author found Ubisoft’s 2023 open-world Avatar game, Frontiers of Pandora, far more satisfying than Avatar: Fire and Ash after walking out of the film in December 2025 and returning to the game. The writer recalled playing Frontiers of Pandora at launch about a year after Way of Water and described its opening as weak, with a threadbare narrative and a jungle section mostly devoid of things to do.

They noted a recent free update added a third-person mode and that a paid expansion added a new area; the writer said they have yet to play that expansion, which the piece says centers on a main-game character fighting the RDA and their Navi allies from the Ash clan. After getting past roughly the first 10 hours—when you are stuck in one location and initially lack access to an Ikran—the writer found the game’s other biomes to be vast and varied, from expansive plains with long draw distances and massive alien trees to a mist-covered forest that feels like an alien version of Pacific Northwest woods.

Hunting there plays differently, with swarms of bugs that affect carcass harvesting, and the writer highlighted a scared, withdrawn Navi clan of former healers as the most interesting and complicated group in the game.

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Culture, Ubisoft, Rda, Navi