When I first previewed Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora way back in June 2023 , I said it was the first time I was interested in the juggernaut franchise. Even in the two years since, I’ve stood by that statement; I just don’t really care for that world, as pretty as it undeniably is. With Frontiers of Pandora , though, I saw promise in something that took the stunning aesthetic of the James Cameron films and mixed it with Far Cry -esque gameplay mechanics.

With all of that said, I must also confess that I never ended up actually going back to Frontiers of Pandora . In my defence, it came out in that unfortunate December period for games where it got buried under wider The Game Awards discussions, for which it was ineligible, plus general end-of-year business. As a result, I didn’t

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