Preview Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Elevates the Ubisoft Formula with a Stellar Setting
We're not in Kansas anymore.
We're in a room lined with a dozen PCs and a handful of press, just about to start our extended hands-on session with Ubisoft's upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. It's hard to say if anyone else is particularly excited to try out the game, but we are. Immediate reactions to its gameplay reveal earlier this year judged it to be a Far Cry spin-off with an Avatar skin. Truth be told, that's kinda what it is. But as massive Avatar fans here at Push Square, we dare to ask: is that really a bad thing?
For years the Far Cry series has been coasting off the formula it perfected over a decade ago with Far Cry 3. Moving from one tropical setting to the next, and dusting through wannabe iconic villains like there's no tomorrow, the series is still great fun — look at our Far Cry 6 review if you want some proof — but it's been in serious need of a spicy new ingredient for quite some time.
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