Ubisoft made an Avatar game the world has forgotten

Avatar: The Game arrived on the cusp of Ubisoft's imperial phase, not long after Far Cry 2 and Assassin's Creed II. It feels like a holdover from an earlier era when licensed movie tie-ins were produced on tight budgets and Hollywood schedules. The contrast shows: Ryder's animations are less lavish than those of Ezio Auditore, and Pandora's lighting is less spectacular than the sun that splashes across Far Cry 2's Africa.

The title still makes an intriguing choice early on—will you embrace life among the na'vi or stick with the RDA? Playing the human side turns the campaign into a technicolour Vietnam movie: you work with Dr Monroe to locate tuning crystals and triangulate an abandoned Well of Souls, the RDA hoping it will give them a backdoor to Eywa.

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