Frontiers Of Pandora Just Looks Like Far Cry: Avatar (& That’s Great)

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Massive Entertainment's will let players explore an open-world Pandora for the first time, with a canonical story tying into James Cameron's hugely successful blockbuster franchise, but its gameplay seems reminiscent of another major Ubisoft series:. Ubisoft ended support for in November 2023 with a final update, with the company's next open-world FPS, arriving just one month later to fill that gap.

Similarly to the movies, will focus on the alien Na'vi tribes as they try to protect their home planet from being plundered for resources by the Resource Development Administration (RDA). puts players in the position of a Na'vi who was kidnapped by the RDA as a child. Here, they were trained with their futuristic military tech to become an asset to the organization. At some point 15 years later, this protagonist seems to escape the RDA somehow and begins reintegrating with the Na'vi clans, combining the traditional skills they are learning from the Na'vi with the knowledge from the RDA to make them a "".

Much like Ubisoft's titles, consists primarily of first-person shooter gameplay in a massive open-world environment. The game combines an array of futuristic weapons such as the RDA's guns with the more traditional bows and arrows of the Na'vi, with equipment that can be upgraded by collecting plants and other resources across the map.

Each game since 2008's seems to have players fighting some kind of new regime in a different environment. Most of these games — with the exception of, which was a direct sequel to — serve as an anthology and have to establish new characters, enemies, and locations with each entry. However, has the advantage of being canonical to the pre-established movie universe, so most players will already