Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora has already impressed filmmaker James Cameron.
In an interview with IGN, the Avatar director explained that he was “extremely excited” about Frontier of Pandora and how it fits into the world of Avatar.
“We are very excited about what Ubisoft is doing with game authoring,” he said. “I don’t tell them what to do. They know their world, their business, their markets. We are watching closely to make sure we are not doing anything that is not standard.”
Cameron’s plan is to create a persistent Avatar universe, and the game fits that idea perfectly.
“Ubisoft’s side is likely to hold back a bit, and I haven’t dug into exactly how it’s going, but what we’re looking for now is an enduring, visitable cadence of sequels. It’s about creating the world,” he explained. “If we are successful, we will be releasing a film every two years. And we have [World of Pandora] In Florida — and who knows it might end up in other theme parks in the Disney regime as well.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was announced in 2017, with The Division developers Massive Entertainment working on the game. Avatar: Frontier of Pandora, a first-person action-adventure game, uses the same Snowdrop engine as The Division, but can be quite different from the popular cover-based shooter.
“What Cameron said is that everyone who walks out of the movie Avatar is going to be this in the next movie. [movie], it’s about going to Pandora, existing on Pandora, and living another life on Pandora,” said Massive Entertainment managing director David Polfert. “That’s what the game can do.”
The upcoming movie sequel, Avatar: Path of Water, hits theaters on December 16, 2022, but the game has been delayed until at least April 2023.
According to Ubisoft’s official statement, the game “continues to expand and deepen the world of Avatar in exciting and innovative ways, along with the film.” A lot lies ahead.
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