A Surprising Dive into Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the Best Preorders to Hunt, and More!
I've Bear Grylls’d through countless open-worlds and know my way around a trigger, but Pandora still makes me jumpy. Just weirdly, uncharacteristically, on guard. Clutching a beefy rifle like a security blanket, I feel swallowed by this wind-lashed neon jungle looming around and above me (because creepy floating islands). In short, my interest is piqued. I’m in.
It's not the visual busyness that’s unsettling, either. My smurf-cat ears are pricked to points, desperately trying to parse a 360-degree onslaught of roars, rustling, and my own clodhopping footfalls. I can’t sort this auditory overload between ambient trickery and actual threats out to eat my eyes for Jujubes.
The only thing I hear that makes 100% sense is a soundbite I recall from 2009’s Avatar: "You have a strong heart [Jake Sully]," Neytiri chides. "But stupid—ignorant, like a child."
That's me in a nutshell here. Like almost no sandbox has achieved in recent memory, this feels like I’m making baby steps through a weird, wonderful, and genuinely hostile alien environment. This fish-out-of-water uncertainty is fresh and invigorating.
TL;DR: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora already has the burgeoning signs of a target I want to hunt down and consume back at my Home Tree. At this point, I realise I may be preaching to a few mind’s-made-up-already diehards, and the preorder options below are intended for your specific needs. Everybody else can skip the window shopping to hear the rest of my impressions…
Note: preordering gets you an exclusive Aranahe Warrior Pack.
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The aforementioned skittishness I feel while traipsing across Pandora lessens as my demo
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