If the words "Avatar mobile MMORPG" excite you, boy do I have good news. Avatar: Reckoning is a new "multiplayer online role-playing shooter," based on Disney and James Cameron's Avatar franchise, and it's coming to iOS and Android this year.
Players will create their character (or Avatar avatar) and travel to never-before-seen parts of Pandora, meet new Na'vi clans, battle human troops from the RDA, and meet other alien creatures. Players will be able to do all this in either solo or multiplayer matches, level up their character, equip new gear, and complete single-player story missions, co-op missions, or PvP modes with touchscreen combat.
The game is also built using Unreal Engine 4.
Accompanying the announcement is a single piece of concept art, showing a Na'vi overlooking the horizon on Pandora while wielding an assault rifle and dressed in camo.
Avatar: Reckoning is being developed by Archosaur Games and produced by Tencent, Lightstorm Entertainment, and Disney. Archosaur is a Chinese mobile game studio, with previous games including Dragon Raja, World of Kings, and Novoland: The Castle in the Sky, and Naval Creed.
That's it for major details, but you can visit the official Avatar: Reckoning site to sign up for a beta test and receive news.
Meanwhile, over in movie land, we're finally getting some looks at what James Cameron's Avatar 2 will look like. We're also learning some plot details, like the fact that original protagonists Jake Sully and Neytiri now have a mixed species family, including an adopted human son.
If mobile games aren't your speed, there's always Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the upcoming open-world adventure game from Ubisoft. It's using an updated version of Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine, which Ubisoft is using to add denser vegetation and more realistic clouds and other weather effects to improve the look of Pandora on next-gen systems.
Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/unobtanium for IGN.
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Players will create their character (or Avatar avatar) and travel to never-before-seen parts of Pandora, meet new Na'vi clans, battle human troops from the RDA, and meet other alien creatures. Players will be able to do all this in either solo or multiplayer matches, level up their character, equip new gear, and complete single-player story missions, co-op missions, or PvP modes with touchscreen combat.
The game is also built using Unreal Engine 4.
Accompanying the announcement is a single piece of concept art, showing a Na'vi overlooking the horizon on Pandora while wielding an assault rifle and dressed in camo.
Avatar: Reckoning is being developed by Archosaur Games and produced by Tencent, Lightstorm Entertainment, and Disney. Archosaur is a Chinese mobile game studio, with previous games including Dragon Raja, World of Kings, and Novoland: The Castle in the Sky, and Naval Creed.
That's it for major details, but you can visit the official Avatar: Reckoning site to sign up for a beta test and receive news.
Meanwhile, over in movie land, we're finally getting some looks at what James Cameron's Avatar 2 will look like. We're also learning some plot details, like the fact that original protagonists Jake Sully and Neytiri now have a mixed species family, including an adopted human son.
If mobile games aren't your speed, there's always Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the upcoming open-world adventure game from Ubisoft. It's using an updated version of Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine, which Ubisoft is using to add denser vegetation and more realistic clouds and other weather effects to improve the look of Pandora on next-gen systems.
Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/unobtanium for IGN.
Continue reading...