NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT?A Far Cry-like set in the world of James Cameron’s Avatar
EXPECT TO PAY£50
DEVELOPERMassive Entertainment, Ubisoft Shanghai, Dusseldorf
PUBLISHERUbisoft
REVIEWED ONAMD Ryzen 7 7700x, 32GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 6600
MULTIPLAYERYes
LINK ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/avatar/frontiers-of-pandora
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandoratranscends its progenitor series Far Cry with awe-inspiring presentation, a captivating world and tense combat, but at present it’s buried under a mountain of technical trouble and it could take months to unearth a genuinely great game with patches and driver support.
When it’s working, navigating Pandora is a total joy: sprinting at mach five across the forest floor and parkouring across the serpentine tree roots that connect dense jungle brush to rock formations suspended in zero gravity. Avatar’s psychedelic ’s colour palette meets Starship Troopers’ industrial scifi look is translated beautifully from film to game, and the skyboxes especially are some of the best I’ve ever seen. The sheer density and variety of reactive flora and fauna is
