<br>Interestingly, this is not the first time that Ubisoft has worked on a game in this world. They had previously released James Cameron's Avatar Frontiers of Pandora story Guide: The Video Game in 2009 which was a third-person action-adventure. The title received mixed reviews and wasn't considered a great expansion of the franchise , but Ubisoft would have learned a lot of lessons si<br><br> <br>In Ubisoft's Frontiers of Pandora , it's important that the Banshee rite of passage is included as a story element. Climbing the mountain to claim a Banshee is one of the most important moments in a Na'vi tribe member's life, and it would be a huge missed opportunity to not allow players to claim their own Banshee and become an official member. It's a rite of passage for both the character and for the pla<br><br> <br>Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a game with lots of potential despite only having one film’s worth of mythology to work with so far. Capturing the years of world-building that James Cameron and the production team have created is no small task but given time the game could end up having a unique and unexplored alien world to discover. At the end of the day, it’s up to Ubisoft to decide whether microtransactions are right for **Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora ** , and hopefully, the game’s world won’t suffer from<br><br> <br>Players got a small sneak peek of what combat might look like in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora during the release trailer, where a Na'vi drops onto a Banshee and begins fighting modern enemy aircrafts. Aerial combat should be primarily ranged and archery was showcased, but the options expand from there. Some combat was shown in the trailer, but none of it was in first-person so it's not clear yet what the gameplay will look l<br><br> <br>There are all kinds of arrows and bombs that could be implemented into enemy encounters, and the opportunity to hijack drones, planes, or helicopters would add an extra layer. No extended gameplay footage was shown in the trailer Ubisoft revealed at E3 , but aerial combat riding on the back of a Banshee can't possibly be limited to cutsce<br><br> <br>Waiting for technology to catch up is another part of the series though. The Avatar movie waited for years for technology to be able to handle its vision and with the new generation of consoles and PC hardware where it is now is probably the best time to start the franchise’s series of games. It might mean waiting a bit longer for some fans but the best result possible comes from the game being on the hardware it needs when Frontiers of Pandora releases in 20<br><br> <br>Drawing from the movies and the creative designs for Pandora at the Walt Disney Parks , the video game will be portraying the Na'vi home and its society in great detail. All of the visual cues for the project have demonstrated the richness of the breathtaking alien planet. Players will especially be visiting the Western Frontier, a largely unseen area of the pla<br><br> <br>With that said, gamers more or less know what to expect from a Ubisoft game in 2022, as countless memes mocking Ubisoft Assassin's Creed -esque clutter , bloat, and microtransactions have surfaced over the past few years. Whether players enjoy this approach to game design or not, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora needs to avoid taking the same approach if Ubisoft hopes to set it apart from the rest of its prolific catalog. For this upcoming Avatar game to be enjoyable and memorable, it needs to steer clear of many tropes laid out and popularized by the modern Assassin's Creed relea<br><br> <br>Ubisoft has a strong interest in open-world games that borders on obsession, so much so that gamers were ready to believe that the Splinter Cell remake would be open-world , despite the fact that Splinter Cell has no real business being so. Of course, there is nothing inherently wrong with open-world design, but Ubisoft franchises like Assassin's Creed are routinely poked fun at for having remarkably rote and predictable exploration elements that boil down to following endless map markers and scaling towers. Indeed, this approach to making open-world games has reached a point of parody, especially in the age of critically acclaimed games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring , which have received praise for rejecting these Ubisoft-style open-world tre<br><br> <br>As complex as these details are, they still look to be tightly and neatly stacked next to one another. While many gamers may be used to open-world adventures where the densely populated areas and open wilderness feel like, they are lacking something the other has Frontiers of Pandora may have a true balance between them. In environments where animal and humanoid NPCs are all part of the ecosystem, it is hard to think of a way where their interconnected nature will not be present on the ground and in the skies. The proper execution of this could be incredibly important for the game and the future Avatar seque<br><br> <br>The prime example is the Hallelujah Mountains, featured in the Avatar film . The Hallelujah Mountains are essentially just floating mountains, but that's oversimplifying it. The mountains are suspended by a powerful magnetic current and slowly rotate, occasionally crashing into each other and creating large deposits of Unobtanium. The mountains are sometimes shrouded in mist because of the abundant waterfalls cascading off of the cli<br>
