Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an upcoming open world action-adventure game based on the Avatar film series developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft.[1] The game is scheduled to release for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on December 7, 2023.[2]

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Developer(s)Massive Entertainment[lower-alpha 1]
Publisher(s)Ubisoft
Director(s)Magnus Jansén
Ditte Deenfeldt
SeriesAvatar
EngineSnowdrop
Platform(s)PlayStation 5
Windows
Xbox Series X/S
ReleaseDecember 7, 2023
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Premise

Played in a first-person perspective, players take control of a Na'vi orphan raised and trained as a soldier by the RDA, before being put into suspended animation and waking up fifteen years later in an abandoned facility. The player must embark on a journey across the Western Frontier, a never-before-seen region of Pandora, discovering their origins and organizing the local Na'vi tribes to fight back against the RDA as they attempt to exploit the natural resources of the Western Frontier.[3] The game’s story is said to be partially tied to the films, while remaining standalone.[4]

The game will also support 2-player cooperative multiplayer.[4]

Development

The game was announced in March 2017 when Massive announced that their next major title would be based on James Cameron's Avatar.[5] In a 2021 investor call, it was revealed that the game was tentatively set to release in the 2022–2023 fiscal year (April 2022 to March 2023).[6] The game was titled Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora with a trailer at E3 2021 and announced for a release in 2022.[7] The game is set to tell a standalone story within the Avatar universe.[3]

The game was delayed in July 2022 from its initial 2022 release window to the 2023–2024 fiscal year (April 2023 to March 2024).[8] During the Ubisoft Forward June 2023 video presentation, a release date of December 7, 2023 was revealed.[9]

Notes
  1. Additional work was provided by Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Reflections, Ubisoft Leamington, and Ubisoft Düsseldorf

References
  1. "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an open-world action-adventure for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC". VGC. 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  2. "Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora Releases In December, Far Cry-Like Gameplay Revealed". GameSpot. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  3. "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an open-world action-adventure for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC". VGC. 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  4. O'Brien, Lucy (2023-06-12). "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Release Date Announced, New Gameplay Revealed". Ubisoft. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  5. "Avatar Game from Division Developer Massive". ComingSoon.net. 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
  6. "Massive Entertainment And Ubisoft's Avatar Game Releasing Before April 2023, Before Their Star Wars RPG". PlayStation Universe. 2021-02-10. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  7. Hall, Charlie (2021-06-12). "Ubisoft reveals Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora with a new trailer at E3". Polygon. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  8. Peters, Jay (2022-07-21). "Surprise, surprise — Ubisoft's Avatar game is delayed". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  9. Peters, Jay (2023-06-12). "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is coming out later this year". The Verge. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
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