Ubisoft made another Avatar game the world has forgotten about, so I opened Pandora’s boxed copy and dropped into the jungle

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Five years of cryosleep later, I’m thrust into Hell’s Gate, a colonial military base on the distant planet of Pandora. “You start growing a conscience,” warns one jarhead, “and you’ll end up on the dead end of a na’vi spear.”My name is ‘Able’ Ryder, and I’m the protagonist of the Avatar game. Yes, the Ubisoft one. No, not the one you’re thinking of. 14 years before Frontiers of Pandora, the French publisher put out a third-person shooter, day-and-date with Jim Cameron’s big, blue, billion-selling blockbuster. Related articles Helldivers 2’s siege of Cyberstan is the greatest galactic campaign the game has seen so far MindsEye developer offers a starter pack that lets you try the beleaguered action game’s best mission for free, though you should imagine air-quotes the size of skyscrapers around the word ‘best’ What games did you play over the holidays? (Image credit: Ubisoft)Avatar: The Game arrived right on the cusp of Ubisoft’s imperial phase. Fresh from Far Cry 2 and Assassin’s Creed II, the publisher would soon codify the lessons of those games and spread them throughout its international teams—dominating the open-world genre for the next decade.Yet this project is something of a hangover from an earlier point in Ubisoft’s life. A period of game development in which licensed movie tie-ins were created on a limited budget, to a deadline dictated by Hollywood. Ubi had managed to beat the odds once previously, when Rayman creator Michel Ancel directed a well-received King Kong game for Peter Jackson. But Avatar: The Game visibly suffers from its circumstances. Ryder’s animatio