Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
December 7, 2023
Get the Aranahe Warrior Pack for free when you play on PlayStation®5. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a first-person, action-adventure game set in the never-before-seen Western Frontier of Pandora. Abducted by the human militaristic corporation known as the RDA, you, a Na’vi, were trained and molded to serve their purpose. …
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an excellent open-world adventure. Thanks to Ubisoft Massive&s;s collaboration with Lightstorm, this is easily the best movie tie-in we&s;ve experienced. The level of detail is second to none, and fans of the series will have …"
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60.0
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"In the face of an IP filled with rich themes with something important to say, Frontiers of Pandora ignores the point entirely and goes on to have a gameplay loop where players spend most of their time killing otherwise docile …"
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85.0
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70.0
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65.0
"Look past Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora’s dull story and you’ll find spectacle and freedom lurking in its Na’vi customs and breathtaking ecosystems."
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95.0
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70.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a staggering sensory experience, and the consistent beauty of its world goes hand-in-hand with an engaging story and meaningful progress for Ubisoft&s;s approach to open-world game design. Its weakest points are the areas where it …"
Read original review"It doesn&s;t break the mold in its gameplay proposal, but Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is an amazing recreation of this cinematic universe, with gameplay and narrative moments that will impact you."
Read original review"&s;Frontiers of Pandora&s; may occasionally feel like a reskinned &s;Far Cry&s;, but it absolutely nails the ambience and atmosphere of James Cameron&s;s eco-scifi world. One of those rare licensed games that retroactively improves the source material it&s;s based on.Avatar: Frontiers …"
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92.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an astonishing achievement, with exquisite visuals and a remarkable balance between pacifism and action. This is an enthralling alien world that plays host to a unique FPS."
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90.0
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85.0
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92.0
"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a huge game in which exploration plays a very important role, as every corner of the Western Frontier is full of plants to catalog, ingredients to collect and materials to use to improve our equipment. …"
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85.0
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45.0
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"While I eventually began having fun with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the game was a very difficult nut to crack. Rather than being open to the way I wanted to play it, Avatar pushed me to find the way it …"
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85.0
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65.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is one of Ubisoft&s;s most mesmerizing games and also a fine tribute to the world created by James Cameron. Although the story fails to stand out, the huge setting does, and offers both newcomers and veterans …"
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85.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is not an unforgettable open world experience, but it remains a solid, action-adventure that lasts the right amount of time and is graphically spectacular, although with such a brand and with a "fuller" and focused map …"
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"Like it or not, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora feels like the perfect companion piece to James Cameron’s movies: it’s big but often intimate. Savage but calm. Familiar but charming. Even without playing a single minute of it, you should know …"
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55.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora can&s;t put its human nature aside long enough to properly honor the Na&s;vi."
Read original review"Net of some gameplay problems that make Avatar Frontiers of Pandora a sometimes wasted opportunity, Massive Entertainment&s;s latest effort is the perfect product to take a virtual journey through the lands of Pandora."
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85.0
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78.0
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60.0
"Despite its occasional shortcomings, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is still a lot of fun to play. Flying an ikran does its fair share of wish fulfillment, but Pandora has a lot to offer elsewhere too. There’s a wealth of things …"
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"In short, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a well-rounded title that will please anyone who dares to defend Pandora as a Na&s;vi."
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87.0
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35.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a serviceable open world game elevated by a stunning presentation. While the visuals will utterly wow you, it&s;s a shame it doesn&s;t introduce more original ideas."
Read original review"The idea of Avatar being mixed into this formula is great, and when you&s;re flying on your ikran, it&s;s an intoxicating experience, even if aspects of the combat and game stability leave something to be desired."
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85.0
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30.0
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"Frontiers of Pandora is, in essence, just another Far Cry experience—one with breathtaking art direction and a thoughtful portrayal of an alien culture, but a Far Cry experience nonetheless. It’s a tired formula applied to a property that’s capable of …"
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80.0
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55.0
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45.0
"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a beautiful game to look at that occasionally delivers moments of excellence, but it lacks the depth underneath to deliver a mesmerizing and unforgettable experience worthy of its technological prowess."
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30.0
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"A decent, if unspectacular take, on an alien Far Cry that uses its source material well to create an engaging world to explore."
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70.0
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"It helps that you can see what you&s;re doing when you&s;re driving around a desert."
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92.0
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"For gamers with a current gen console or powerful PC, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an incredible-looking open world experience. It is a seamless extension of the films, which will appeal to many fans. But underneath all that flash, flora, …"
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85.0
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"Even so, I found a lot to love in Frontiers of Pandora, including the welcome addition of two-player online cooperative play, which lets players enjoy the game with a friend. With time, the many interlocking features started to make sense, …"
Read original review"It&s;s not without its flaws, but Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is still one of Ubisoft&s;s best games of recent years."
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a remarkable achievement in many ways, bringing a cinematic world to life on a massive, technically-impressive scale like few games have done before. Unfortunately, limited, frustrating combat means the game isn’t always that fun to …"
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"Frontiers of Pandora&s;s stunning presentation and fantastic world design are failed by atrocious technical issues."
Read original review"Though it includes a lot of familiar open-world elements, a minimalistic user interface, fun movement mechanics, and a gorgeous setting make it a blast to explore Pandora."
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92.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is the perfect adaptation of James Cameron&s;s films. The work of Ubisoft Massive does not propose anything original, but everything it presents to us is done greatly."
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora offers a visually appealing open world that fans of the movies will certainly enjoy. That said, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is routinely held back by repetitive gameplay, while a lack of enemy types and weapons stops …"
Read original review"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 …"
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65.0
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68.0
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a fantastic game even if it leans heavily on its Far Cry roots. Graphically, Pandora is simply stunning to behold, whether running on the land and jumping from vines or soaring through the flying mountains; …"
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"Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora features a stunning alien world to explore, but doesn’t contain as many genuine surprises as other modern open-worlds."
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