After a forgettable launch, Ubisoft's Avatar game is getting a huge new update later this year, introducing new game plus and a third-person mode

A na'vi flies their ikran low enough to skim the surface of a shallow creek in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

I liked Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora more than I expected I would when it rumbled into Steam's digital jungle back in 2023. Despite finding James Cameron's films about as interesting as picking out the sock fluff from between my toes, Avatar's remarkable rainforest world was fantastic to explore both visually and mechanically, and I enjoyed booting around human soldiers with my giant Na'vi feet, even if the broader combat was watered down from its Far Cry origins.

In fact, I was surprised the game's launch was so muted, squeezed into the end of December with seemingly little marketing fanfare from Ubisoft. It seemed like the game was fairly quickly forgotten about too, generating relatively little discussion, and without much evident support from developer Massive beyond releasing a couple of paid DLC patches.