Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Reviews Are Torn on Ubisoft's New Open World | Push Square
Perhaps the final high profile release of 2023, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is out for PS5 on the 7th December — and the reviews are starting to drop. This latest open world adventure from Ubisoft is an original tale in the Avatar universe, and while reviewers are heaping praise on the game's luscious alien setting and overall visual prowess, they seem quite torn on the actual gameplay structure.
Indeed, initial impressions are rather mixed, with the title commanding a good-but-not-great average of 74 on Metacritic. Review scores range from 9/10 to 4/10, and that's certainly not the kind of split we're used to seeing when AAA projects are involved.
As for our own Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review, you'll unfortunately have to wait a bit longer before we can deliver our verdict. But until then, check out some other takes from across the web and let us know if you plan on grabbing this game in the comments section below.
If you walked away from Avatar wishing a world like Pandora actually existed out there, here you go. This is that world. Seeing Pandora is one thing, but being able to scale its massive treetops, soar high above its floating mountains on an Ikran, and traverse its wide open plains on the back of a Direhorse is really something special. This is the best version of Avatar yet.
Best of all, I never felt like an open-world trashman, dumping junk on the way to the next map marker. Instead, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora made me feel like I was adventuring in a place worth exploring, and I'm eager to go back.
Hiding locations behind simple instructions is by no means novel or groundbreaking. Assassin’s Creed has done it on occasion too. But by hiding the beaten path from view, Avatar asks players to let go of
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