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New Avatar game in development by Ubisoft

Exoblade

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So this is some new information.

There is a new Avatar video game being produced by Ubisoft and the same developers that made the Division!

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No screen shots or assets yet but still great news, clearly hotting up for a release around the sequel.
 
Eltu

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Well, Massive are pretty competent (and Swedish!) though Avatar's a tricky movie to turn into a compelling interactive experience, as the first 2009 game showed.

Nonetheless, as a game developer myself I'm quite interested to see which direction they're taking this :)
 
Dr. Na'vi

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Job Opportunities - Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio
They also hire narrative designers, so there's a good chance it will include a single player story as well (worst case for me its just the quest stories of an MMO, I don't really like MMO's :/ )

I guess only time will tell. I'd love some competitive SecOps vs Na'vi FPS matches in the nighttime pandoran jungle, or at least the functionality to play the story in co-op mode.
 
Exoblade

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Given there is a lot of senior positions for the project it sounds like its only started development.

With the talk of multiplayer its possible that it will be a the division style system, a single player/mmo hybrid with drop in co-op or inbuilt PvP areas. This does hark back to some of Cameron's early idea of a Avatar MMO. Something like the division might be able to provide this concept while being commercially viable.


Also there is a job posting for a senior narrative designer who's requirements suggest its going to be open world and have RPG elements.

Job Opportunities - Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio

Edit: Having looked at the other job specs it does look like multiplayer is an important part of it, that suggests something like the division.
 
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I would like to see more open world explore and discovery experience that is more in line with the game "Wild" "But" certainly not Tribe verses tribe (which is out of the films ethos anyway) something that follows more in line with the history and story of Toruk first flight.. I don't think it will be so much "Na'vi verses RDA combat , but more in the lines of say a young Na'vi going thorough there coming of age process or becoming a peacemaker ,Would also be nice to See VR support as well as a environmental immersion experience with the Na'vi community in the center role ,, Becoming one with The people.. probably an awful lot to ask the developers but a story that was a true and root authentic to the ethos of the films world "and its reflective elements" and I will add more big picture elements in the developing relations perspectives between Na'vi and humans , some solid story refection's upon history and exploration would be a lot deeper then the expected Na'vi verses RDA tactical combat scenario.. I will add this example ,,
How Ubisoft's Avatar Game Will Differ From The Division - IGN News



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edX7cno1ad0
 
Fighter-of-Wars

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I would think a Mass Effect style game in the world of Avatar would be good. Of course without all the space travelling. Travelling across Pandora, on the other hand, would be great!
 
Crickett

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Fighter-of-Wars said:
I would think a Mass Effect style game in the world of Avatar would be good. Of course without all the space travelling. Travelling across Pandora, on the other hand, would be great!
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I would be very much opposed to this. I have no idea how a Mass Effect game where you spend so much time in different city areas on planets in between shooting people and things would work in the Avatar universe.



I can understand if you meant you think a third person shooter/RPG hybrid in the world of Avatar would be good, but otherwise I don't see it at all.
 
Fighter-of-Wars

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Crickett said:
I can understand if you meant you think a third person shooter/RPG hybrid in the world of Avatar would be good, but otherwise I don't see it at all.
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Yes. The 3rd person/RPG hybrid style of gameplay. I really enjoy the story and progression aspects of the Mass Effect series and the way the game delivered them. The way your character grows and changes depending on the choices you made in the game as well as the relationships you developed with different characters influenced the game. I think all that sort of stuff in an Avatar game would be wonderful.
 
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My video game experience, Nintendo, sega stuff in the 90's ( a bit) then no video game play for like 15 years, then I play the Avatar game on xbox all the way through, ( still mess around on it some, mainly just flying around on the Ikran in "Iknimaya" map and shooting RDA people, so my next game will likely be the next Avatar game, hrh
 
Yrel

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on the one hand, yay! new avatar stuff! a new avatar VIDEO GAME even!

on the other hand, ubisoft's track record as of late has sort of been hot garbage so i'm a bit worried about the final quality of the game.
 
Exoblade

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Yrel said:
on the other hand, ubisoft's track record as of late has sort of been hot garbage so i'm a bit worried about the final quality of the game.
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That is one of my main worries especially given those job opening seem to suggest the game will have a strong multiplayer/open world focus. My fear it turns into a sudo-mmo like the division that has a lot of hype but very little staying power that is shut down after 5 years so you can't play it at all.

The only hope is that they move away from the bullet sponge gameplay (they'll likely have to because of the greater focus on melee) and generic level design (again they'll have to because of Pandora) they produce something that is at least more fun to play long term.
 
ahoragi

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I could care less what the game turns out to be. I just want to be back in Pandora and explore the vast and beautiful planet.

Avatar the Game did not get good ratings but I still enjoyed it just as much as the movie because I could immerse myself in the world of Pandora.

Just gimme a game related to the best movie of all time and I will play it nonstop till my eyes dry up. :)

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/20/how-ubisofts-avatar-game-will-differ-from-the-division

“What Cameron said is that everyone who walks out of Avatar the movie, and it'll be this thing with the next [movie], has a dream that we can fulfill, and that is to go to Pandora and exist on Pandora, and live an alternative life on Pandora. That's what you can do in the game,” Polfeldt said
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Polfeldt still couldn’t comment on gameplay or story specifics, but he did explain players shouldn’t necessarily be expecting a version of The Division re-skinned with an alien planet. The Avatar game will be one much more about discovering its environment.

“It's very very different from The Division. It's built from the same engine, and we have access to any kind of feature or any kind of solution that exists in The Division,” Polfeldt said. “But it also needs to be a different game, because Avatar is ultimately about world and discovery and nature. It's not a city. It's a very, very different kind of scenario.”

That scenario also has philosophical differences driving the gameplay and world building.

“Philosophically it's about something else. The Division is about the fragility of society, our society. Avatar is much more about balance and ecology. So it does need some very different themes that need to be translated into meaningful and fun gameplay,” Polfeldt said.
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Exoblade

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Its kind of insane in time when licensed games only exist as freemium mobile games we getting a AAA developer producing a full avatar game.
 
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