Avatar
- Become immersed in the world of the Avatar feature film, viewing James Cameron’s universe from your own perspective
- Take your stand in a raging conflict, fighting either for the indigenous Na’vi or the resource-hunting RDA Corporation
- Arm yourself with any of more than 60 total RDA and Na’vi weapons, customizing them for your own use
- Prepare yourself for battle by choosing any of 20 skills for each clan
- Design your own character and acquire new skills as you make your way through the game
Product Description
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In a distant corner of the universe, a devastating conflict is about to erupt between two very different worlds. On the planet of Pandora reside an indigenous people known as the Na’vi. When the Na’vi find themselves engaged in a struggle with the RDA Corporation, a space-faring consortium in search of valuable resources, it sets the stage for a conflict unlike any the universe has seen before. Step into a dazzling w… More >>
After coming off of a month of Modern Warfare 2 and Dragon age, I decided, against my better judgement, to give Avatar a try. Gamers know the quality of most movie based games, but I played this one because Im really looking foward to James Camerons return to cinema with the movie Avatar. This game has been pretty hyped as a revolution in movie based games, and while it isnt exactly that, it was far better than I expected. First, the good:
-It plays and controls fairly well
-The graphics are outstanding. Its obvious that the main character is actually Pandora itself.
-Its of a pretty decent length
-lots of weapons and armor
-The AMP suit is pretty cool
-A branching story give you an excuse to play through twice
-The ‘pandora-pedia’ is awesome if you have an interest in the background of Avatar
-If your a fan of Mass effect, you’ll find a familiar voice.
The bad:
-It can get a bit repetitive
-everybody knows: guns and mechs vs. spears and bows= guns and mechs win pretty much everytime
-Its supposed to be a prequel, but I get the feeling that its pretty much the same story as the movie is going to be
-the buggy has some major control issues compared to the rest of the vehicles
- the pc version comes with some pretty nasty drm. I didnt realize that until after I bought it. GET THE CONSOLE VERSION.
-multiplayer isnt dragging anyone away from Modern Warfare.
I usually avoid reviewing movie games, but I did because I like the fact that it seems Ubisoft actually cared about what they were making, rather that just throw something together and call it a game. Its not a fantastic, jaw dropping game by any means, and theres a lot better this holiday season. For a movie game, its really good. Its most certainly worth a rental and possibly a buy if your really looking foward to the movie.
Note: I didnt get the chance to play it that way, but its my understanding that the 3d tech this game can do makes it look even better.
Despite my unhappiness with the TAGES DRM, I went ahead and bought this game for the sole reason that it’s one of the first games made to specifically work with nVidia’s 3D Vision (and other stereoscopic 3D options). I’m glad I did because the game looks amazing in 3D. The gameplay itself is average at best but better than most movie tie-in games. The multi-player is DOA. So I recommend this game if you have a way to play it in true stereoscopic 3D (not anaglyph), otherwise I would pass or wait for a price drop.
This game is a standard run around shooter with limits on where you can go.The graphics are very nice which is the only thing this game has going for it.After playing you tend to get bored and don’t even care how the game turns out.Bad voice over characters and even though you can play the game from both sides still does not make up for how bad the gameplay is.All to bad this game had to be released like this and not even play balanced.When fighting some big boses in the game you can get your player in a spot where you cannot be reached by the enemy you are fighting and just keep shooting until you destroy the boss you are trying to kill.Very bad AI the enemies are all over the place moving towards you and away.Since the world is so huge they run all over the place and you can shoot at them at a distance like a shooting gallery.Another bad mark against this game is DRM.You buy the game on the PC you get 3 activations.So instead of owning the game you are renting the game.As nice as this game looks and with all the improvments in video hardware this would be a very nice game like Crysis to be able to benchmark your video card or new computer that you may want to build or upgrade.I just don’t understand when publishers are going to wake up and quite using DRM is bad for business becuase any game that has it I will not purchase it.
ONce again a movie based game lets us all down…..
clearly this was made for the consoles, and ported for the PC……controls are horrible, aiming is non existant (ironsights would have rocked), as was said, AI is abysmal….just overall a waste of a game…..
not to mention the PC version is the most expensive copy….must be cause of the DRM…lol….
save your money and dont buy this….the movie was AWESOME, and here i thought the same enthusiasm would have been put into this game….couldn’t have been more wrong.
Oh my goodness, this game uses Tages DRM (Digital Rights Management) and requires online activation with a limit of 3 total activations. Apparently Ubisoft thinks online activation won’t bother anyone if SecuROM (another controversial DRM scheme) isn’t involved.
Too bad though, I saw the movie and loved it and almost made an impulse buy of this game before I found out of the online activation requirement.