Turning up nearly a year after James Cameron’s Avatar sequel, The Way of Water, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora doesn’t carry the same weight of expectation or even much in the way of hype. The good news is that it thinks it is bigger than your average cinematic tie-in and does its best to replicate the movies’ sense of scale. It understands then tries to spin its own yarn within their world.
Wisely, Frontiers of Pandora doesn’t follow the main plot or the characters of the films, instead following a new group of Na’vi freedom fighters, the remnants of a lost tribe, taken as children by the brutal RDA – the corrupt human administration at the heart of everything bad on the planet of Pandora. Having made your inevitable escape, it is up to you to roam the previously unseen western frontier, rediscovering your heritage and uniting the local Na’vi tribes to go to war.
