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James Cameron’s Avatar The Game Review

Posted by Xero On February - 4 - 2010

James Cameron’s Avatar Game was one of the games I had to buy after I had seen the outstanding movie, 5* rating on the movie.
The game was a big let down considering the movie was amazing, I mean overall the game looked really good visually but the game play itself was not as good as it could of been had they had put more thought into it.

This game really reminds me of Prince of Persia but in the way that Assassins Creed doesn’t, the way the character you play moves and in combat is very much the same, but much less free running compared to Prince of Persia or Assassins Creed.

I would say its a game worth getting, but only if you have a very good graphics card, if you get it for any other platform apart from the PC then it really is not worth your money, but then again that is my own opinion, you can still get the game to try it out.

Anyway, this game takes place 2 years before the movie story, and if you haven’t already seen the movie, the game is about 2 races, the Humans (yes your brothers and sisters) and the Na’vi, the Na’vi is like a super race, very strong and very fast, they are at sanctuary with the environment around them.
If you have played World of Warcraft, as soon as you see these guys you will immediately think OMG they are half Draenei and half Human; or you may think they look like blue space goats.

Now back to the game. You start off as a Human, and you get put straight into a Na’vi, where you go through a small walkthrough and then dive straight into the missions, where you can enjoy exploring, killing things and driving around, but after a short time the game takes a twist and you find yourself choosing to turn into a Na’vi and fight against the Humans to save the environment, or you can become Human and try to kill all the Na’vi for the land.

If you choose the Human side your thinking more along the path of a Third person action game, but if you go for the Na’vi your going more along the line of an Adventure game. If you enjoy the game on 1st play through you should try going for the other side on a 2nd play through.

This game is also available on the Ipod and Iphone, which is a fun little game to pass time, through school or even a meeting, as long as you don’t get caught that is.
The creator’s of this game said it was supposed to change the entire world of gaming, they mentioned how this game would have no boundaries and you would be able to explore anywhere, but as I got into the game, I came across a boundary, you know the annoying invisible wall blocking off the sacred area you wish to step on.

This game thought it could be like some of it’s very strong competitors; such games as Oblivion or Fallout 3 which are my favorite single player RPG games, both created by Bethesda. I very highly doubt that any single player RPG game created by a different company would be as well made as these 2 games are.

Avatar, has amazing vegetation and the scenes you will see are outstanding, I absolutely love the visuals in this game, it may be the best I have seen (for vegetation anyway)and is what keeps my rating of this game up, but after playing this game, which might keep you busy for 10-20 hours per campaign (remember you can play two campaigns, 1 for the Human side and 1 for the Na’vi) so this give about 20-40 hours of gameplay.

A good time passer waiting for a new game, but not something to get terribly excited about, i give this one a 4/10 mainly for the Graphics, the gameplay unfortunately makes this game feel like a bad copy of good games.