Ahead of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora’s launch in December 2023, I had the chance to spend a few hours with it and get a glimpse of Massive’s vision. I picked stalks, found beehives, contributed to a community fund, and learned how to find my way in the gorgeous, otherworldly forests of Pandora before becoming an airborne terror and raiding an RDA base on a flying lizard. Despite a few stale design elements, Frontiers of Pandora is shaping up to be a more thoughtful take on the usual open-world – and Ubisoft – formula.
