Ubisoft is working on an Avatar game, titled Avatar Frontiers Of Pandora. The news was announced today at the Ubisoft Forward event, complete with a detailed cinematic.
That’s right - before any of the three new Avatar films hit theatres, we’re getting a video game based on the 2009 blockbuster instead. It won’t be a long wait either, as the trailer already revealed a 2022 release date.
The trailer showcased the lush world of Pandora, as recreated in Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine. As with the source material, the game trailer depicts the human military ruthlessly attack the native Na’vi, likely in aid of stealing their resources. You know, just another apolitical topic for Ubisoft to sink its teeth into.
In case you were wondering what happened to those films we got told about a while back, the second instalment is set to be with us around the time the game releases, also in 2022. After that, Avatar 3 is scheduled for 2024.
It’s been quite the wild ride for the franchise. Avatar 2 was originally set to release all the way back in 2014, when it was a bit more relevant. Various production issues kept pushing it back, but then of course that global pandemic happened, and it got delayed again.
