My hands-off demonstration of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora at Ubisoft Forward begins with James Cameron. Speaking directly into the camera, the esteemed film director waxes lyrical about the good job Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have made of their "original story that co-exists with the Avatar films". For me, that remains to be seen until we can go hands-on with the upcoming FPS action-adventure open-world game, but I will say that what we've been shown at a distance does look impressive.
Pulling from its storied experience on The Division series, the gunplay in Frontiers of Pandora is as fast and punchy as you might expect, but Ubisoft's fingerprints are equally obvious here throughout – with 'Avatar by way of Far Cry' being a reasonable take on how it all appears to be shaping up. Better still, while primarily being a single-player story-driven experience, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will support two-player co-op online.
