Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora could be great if it commits to being weird.
Avatar: The Way of Water is unmitigated bum detritus and the product of James Cameron's Pandora-sized ego, but ever since I dragged my aching body out of the cinema I've found myself thinking about it a lot, and how I might actually be incredibly excited to play another game set in this ridiculous universe.
In typical Avatar fashion, we're only ever given strange titbits about the whales—like how they're usually strict pacifists, forcing any killer whales to become rogue badasses—so there's a massive gap that Ubisoft could fill with all sorts of unexpected diversions. I genuinely want to know what kind of music these creatures are into. Do they enjoy Enya?
Reassuringly, Avatar already seems to work on videogame logic, though it's a kind of logic that is common in a lot of sci-fi and fantasy properties beyond gaming. You've got the forest na'vi, with their bows and arrows and their penchant for leaping from branch to branch. Now there's the water na'vi, who talk to fish and have weird Popeye-like forearms.
This might just be evidence of Stockholm syndrome, but I'm even pumped to find out if Frontiers of Pandora replicates The Way of Water's wild casting decisions, the pinnacle of which has to be the return of Sigourney Weaver. Grace's death in the first movie is conveniently sidestepped by making Weaver play her teenage daughter, Kiri, who is a na'vi.
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