Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Review (PS5) | Push Square
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a game this writer has been waiting a long time for. In many ways, it is the Hogwarts Legacy for fans of big blue folk and vibrant alien worlds. But with that apt comparison and Ubisoft Massive at the helm, does it do enough to stand on its own two feet? Or is it nothing more than a pretty tour through Avatar’s greatest hits? While it certainly is pretty and it does its best to hit those Avatar beats, Frontiers of Pandora actually won us over with one of the most enchanting open-worlds available on PS5.
It’s easy to write that off as a given, considering the fervour cinema-goers had for the world of James Cameron’s mega-hit series. However, there was a lot Ubi Massive could have gotten wrong with this interpretation. Thankfully, though, Massive teamed up with Lightstorm, Cameron’s film company, to ensure that it doesn’t just look and feel like Pandora: it is Pandora.
Everything you see, touch, hear, and explore is canon to the Avatar universe, meaning it receives the same level of attention to detail and care for its lore as the main films do. What this results in is one of Ubisoft’s best open worlds to date — a setting that lives and breathes and is an utter delight to explore.
As a young Na’Vi child kidnapped and raised by the immoral RDA, you’ve spent your life in captivity — contained within grey steel walls. However, the events of the first film mean you're put into cryosleep and left in your slumber for 15 years. Awakened at the same time as the events of Avatar: The Way Of Water you are let loose in The Western Frontier, a new region to the universe.
This acts as the foundation for the game’s story, which sees your very own Na’Vi reconnecting with the ways of their people. From the
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