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Combat in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is fast-paced, exciting, and even hilarious at times. At our disposal was a Heavy Bow with standard arrows and explosive arrows, a longbow with standard arrows and another kind of special arrow, an RDA assault rifle (with two ammo types, the second for shredding armor), and a throwing stick that allowed us to toss explosives and things that would cause status effects. The heavier weaponry came in handy when fighting the bigger mechs, while we'd switch to simpler ammo to take out individual soldiers. These soldiers are easy to kill, but they certainly pack a punch. In a quick face-off, a soldier fired a rocket at us before we could line up our arrow shot, and we saw the rocket flying toward us with explosive resu
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora ** __ ** marks Ubisoft's foray into the world of James Cameron's Avatar , and the game seems to have picked the perfect protagonist for this journey. Originally announced in 2017, this title by Ubisoft game delay subsidiary Massive Entertainment has, like the Avatar sequel films, spent a long time gestating. Pandora is a planet teeming with alien flora and fauna, and creating that environment in an open-world scale is a demanding task. Now that the game's release is actually on the horizon, details like the playable character and narrative are becoming clear for the first t
On top of that, exploring the tree limbs and tree tops is a lot of fun. Across these are a lot of plants that boost speed, and it saw us zipping, diving, dash, and jumping from point to point in a way not unlike a good Assassin's Creed parkour run . Whereas that emphasizes stealth, freedom, and coordination, this emphasizes speed, being at one with nature, and the limber physique of the Na'vi. The result is a fun environmental design that shows Massive's attention to detail, makes for a unique method of exploration in a Ubisoft open-world game, and really represents what Avatar is all about. It doesn't seem perfect though, as we found ourselves on quite a few long treks where we only really had sprinting across the ground floor as the only opt
When first looking at the map of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora , it clearly looks as busy as any Ubisoft game . Expanding the map all the way out also showed us how big the area was, at least twice the size of the playable section we were given (which we could not explore all of during our time with the game), and everywhere the save file hadn't been before us was covered in clouds. There are color-marked areas, marked for resource gathering; names across wider regions, indicating things like swamps; and a few select stand out areas marked like the Home Tree. Some areas like the Ikran Rookery weren't specifically marked until we made it to them for the quest, so it's clearly a map that develops over t
While Pandora is home to many plants and animals, the primary inhabitants of the planet are the Na'vi people. The Na'vi are spread out throughout the planet in several clans , and players will be coming into contact with several brand-new clans in the game. Thanks to Frontiers of Pandora , players will be able to experience the world of Avatar like they've never seen bef
As far as the RDA is concerned, Pandora is rightfully theirs to do with as they see fit and the Na'vi are overstepping boundaries, a lot like historical colonialism. Like many real-life corporations, the RDA has a history of over-valuing profits at the expense of others. They were already causing mass pollution on Earth with their lunar factories, and they aren't opposed to destroying Pandora's ecosystems for the sake of mo
Set shortly before Avatar: The Way of Water , Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora takes players to the never-before-explored Western Frontier of Pandora. They take on the role of a Na'vi who was taken as a child by the RDA and trained as a soldier before they are put into suspended animation. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora sees players wake up fifteen years later and embark on a standalone story uniting the Frontier clans against the
The RDA has a variety of tools at their disposal to accomplish their goals. Their entire security division is practically an army capable of outmatching most countries. In terms of weapons, they can access just about anything short of nuclear bombs (the one thing they're prohibited from using off of Earth). Assault rifles, flamethrowers, machine guns, and explosives are all fair game. Their forces range from ground infantry to mechsuits. One of their most dangerous weapons is the SA-2 Samson, a rotorwing aircraft with concerning amounts of firepo
At the same time, using the explosive arrows on the mech saw them explode, and sometimes the mech would go berserk and the soldier on the inside would be screaming hysterically. Lining up kill lanes, kiting enemies, and using the environment to our advantage made it feel like the combat is in close competition with the explorat
Ubisoft has confirmed that a lot RDA's military vehicles to be appearing in Frontiers of Pandora . The gameplay overview showed the protagonist destroying several of them, including a mech suit and an SA-2 Samson. Whether the player will be limited to destroying them, or if they can in fact operate the RDA's vehicles, is not yet cl