Taking to the skies in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – hands-on report

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One of the most beautiful worlds in all of cinema is blossoming to life on PlayStation 5 in a big way. Pandora, the breathtaking alien world of the Avatar films, takes center stage in Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora—alongside your own player-created Na’vi protagonist. If you, like millions around the globe, were enchanted by the colorful, expansive wildness of this faraway moon in the theater, get ready—you’re going to experience the wonders and dangers of this world firsthand through your own eyes.

We recently had the opportunity to go hands-on with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, a first-person, open-world action-adventure,  and experience a small slice of what it had to offer—though that small slice delivered plenty of big-time action and exploration.

As a Na’vi who was formerly held captive by the RDA, you have returned to Pandora’s Western Frontier as an outsider to the Na’vi tribes who live there. But the RDA is destroying and exploiting these sacred lands, and you have the inside knowledge that could take them down… if you can convince the tribes to fight back against these oppressive forces.

Our demo session began with a simple retrieval quest: collecting mangrove hive nectar for the

Kinglor Queen ritual. Here, we got to see how gathering raw materials for crafting and food works. Some items found in the fields can be gathered up with just a simple button press, but others require a bit more effort, such as using the DualSense controller analog sticks and haptic feedback to determine the correct angle to pull out a plant to avoid damage. Collecting items carefully and under the right conditions, such as at a certain time of day or in specific weather, can affect their quality and, subsequently, the quality