Developer : Ubisoft
Release date : December 1, 2009
Synopsis :
James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game is a 2009 third-person action video game based on James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar. The game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Wii and Nintendo DS on December 1, 2009, with a PSP version released later on December 7. It uses the same technology as the film to be displayed in stereoscopic 3D. As of May 19, 2010, the game has sold nearly 2.7 million copies.
The game, which acts as a prequel to the film, features Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Giovanni Ribisi, who reprise their roles from the film. The casting and voice production for Avatar: The Game was handled by Blindlight.
The online services for the game were shut down on August 8, 2014.
A standalone second game based on the series, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, is scheduled to be released in 2023.
Set in 2152, two years before the events of the film, Avatar: The Game starts out with a new signals specialist, named Able Ryder (who is either male or female, depending on the player’s choice), arriving at Pandora, assigned to an area called Blue Lagoon, a large piece of jungle, fenced in to make sure no larger predators get inside. Their first mission is to save five marines from Viperwolves, with their CO, Kendra Midori, suggesting they use a turret to help fend off the wolves. After saving the marines, Ryder must go help another Sig Spec, Dalton, who is afraid of the Viperwolves and trapped outside the fence.
Helping out at another base, Ryder is told to go fix the fences and animal repulsors, which are attracting creatures rather than keeping them away. After fixing the fences, Ryder is told to enter his avatar. Ryder’s first mission in his avatar body is to get cell samples from certain non-hostile plants. After getting the samples, a Na’vi, Tan Jala, tells Ryder to kill his infected animals. A RDA air strike is then seen being launched on the Na’vi village where Ryder had locked the signal. He finds out that there is a mole and that it is one of the avatar drivers. He must then follow Tan Jala, who will lead him to the mole. After finding who the mole is, a scientist named Rene Harper, who is sympathetic with the Na’vi plight, Ryder sees the Na’vi village destroyed in the air strike previously. Commander Falco and his soldiers arrive via helicopter and try to force Rene into surrender. Harper then tries to persuade Ryder to join the Na’vi and leave the RDA. When Falco hears this, he orders Ryder to shoot Rene Harper and keep his allegiance to the Corporation. Ryder must then make a game-altering decision of siding with the defensive Na’vi or siding with the more offensive, better- armed RDA.
If the player sides with the RDA, Ryder, Commander Falco, and his soldiers corner Rene Harper, and he jumps from a cliff rather than surrender to the RDA. As Rene falls, he shoots Ryder in the chest with a bow and arrow. Their avatar is killed, but Ryder’s human body survives.
As he returns to base on a Scorpion with Kendra, two banshees attack and force down the helicopter. No one is killed, but the pilot is hurt in the crash. Midori informs Ryder of a base near the Crash Site, and that he could use one of the aircraft. However, when he arrives, he finds the base is under constant attack by banshees, resulting in the destruction of many operational Scorpion and Samson helicopters, and causing many casualties. Ryder enters the control room, and the commander tells them to take a helicopter above and destroy the banshee nests, eradicating the banshee threat. When Ryder returns to retrieve missiles from the Crash Site, they learn that the pilot died from his injuries. They reequips the missiles to the helicopter and completes the task, and the player can see that aerial reinforcements are arriving and battling any remaining banshees in the area. Ryder is then ordered to collect three unobtainium shards so that with the help of them, they could extract the harmonic from a Willow Tree which would help the RDA to find The Well Of Souls. Ryder collects the shards and then extracts the harmonic. Ryder is again summoned at Hell’s Gate and is given a new pilot as their previous pilot died from injuries. He meets with Dr. Monroe who tells them to feed the harmonic into a device called the Emulator. He explains to them that the Na’vi access the planet from a place called the Tree Of Souls, but there is also another dormant site called the Well Of Souls and it could act like a back door entrance for them to cut the connection of the Na’vi from the planet. In order to pinpoint the location of the dormant site they needed enough harmonics.
Ryder is transported to a combat area known as the FEBA, where Na’vi warriors, under the powerful Beyda’mo (who, ironically, dislikes Ryder, even if they join the Na’vi), are inflicting death and destruction to the RDA and slowing the advance to a halt. At this point Ryder’s primary goal is to collect the shards and extract the harmonic. But in the process, Ryder has to kill Beyda’mo.
After that they are transported to Grave’s Bog where along with collecting the shards and extracting the harmonic, Ryder also has to kill Tan jala in the process. They then go to The Hanging Gardens where they discovers that Dr. Harper is still alive and working for the Na’vi with two other people. After killing them, Ryder learns that Commander Falco has went rogue, stolen the Emulator, and killed Dr. Monroe.
Ryder then travels to The Plains Of Goliath for their final missions. Upon arrival Ryder is ordered to eliminate three Na’vi leaders and the first leader persuades him to join the Na’vi but the player can decline and kill the other leaders. Col. Miles Quaritch gives Ryder a Dragon Ship to go to Tantalus and get some charges from Boom Boom Batista to blow up the stone wall and get the Dragon Ship to access the Well Of Souls, where Ryder finds Falco trying to activate the Emulator. After killing Falco, Ryder activates the Emulator and cuts the connection of the Na’vi behind them from Eywa. This finishes the game. However, if the player chooses to accept Swawta’s request Ryder has to kill the RDA leaders instead.
The Wii and PSP versions have a different storyline, where the player character is a young Na’vi named Raiuk who engages in a personal vendetta against the RDA after they attack his village.
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