Several gameplay screenshots fromAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoramade their way online in an unofficial capacity thanks to one avid dataminer. This development arrives mere days after someAvatar: Frontiers of Pandorapre-order bonuses leaked, suggesting Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft’s upcoming game is currently on course to hits its target release window, given how its advanced orders will apparently be going live shortly.Announced way back in 2017, the next open-world action-adventure game from the developers ofFar Cry 3andThe Divisionfranchise was originally scheduled to release alongsideAvatar: The Way of Water, the second installment in James Cameron’s sci-fi series which premiered in December 2022. However,Ubisoft delayedAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoraduring the preceding summer. The move wasn’t accompanied by a new release date or specific reasoning for the postponement, beyond a vague indication that the project simply won’t be able to meet its previous deadline.RELATED:James Cameron Explains Why He Won’t Make Avatar Spinoffs For Disney Plus Anytime SoonMore recently, dataminer ScriptLeaksR6 took to Twitter to share some newly uncovered information about the game; after reporting on the aforementioned pre-order bonuses, the same source has now also unearthed several gameplay screenshots fromAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora. One of those stills shows a first-person shootout between a player-controlled Na’vi and the Mitsubishi MK-6 Amplified Mobility Platform. While the said mech enemy appears to be a fairly authentic recreation of the so-called AMP suit users from Cameron’s films, some fans on social media already voiced concerns that the perspective of the image is wrong in the sense that Na’vi are meant to be much taller than the seemingly 6-something-foot character from the screenshot.
The second unearthed still from the game that was seemingly pulled from a cutscene alleviates those concerns, ostensibly depicting a correctly-sized blue-skinned Pandora native riding a mountain banshee. Apart from promising that a gameplay video leak is coming “soon,” the dataminer behind these screenshots, who previously uncovered the existence ofAssassin’s Creed Mirage,also reported thatAvatar: Frontiers of Pandorawill seemingly be played entirely from a first-person perspective. Given that claim and the leaked screenshots, it would appear the game willmix FPS gameplay with third-person cutscenes likeFar Cry 6did in order to deliver a fairly cinematic experience.
Apart fromAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Massive Entertainment is currently also working on anunannouncedStar Warsgame rumored to feature a massive open galaxyin the vein ofNo Man’s Sky. Unlike theAvatartie-in, however, the Swedish studio’s first-everStar Warsgame is still believed to be years away from releasing.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandorais coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S sometime during Ubisoft’s next fiscal year, which ends in March 2024.
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