‘Avatar’ Is Getting A Mobile Game Ahead Of The Sequels
By Angie Han/June 28, 2016 3:30 pm EST
Kabam, which has made mobile games based on Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fast & Furious, The Hunger Games, and The Hobbit, expects the Avatar video game will be its biggest release ever. “We develop games that people return to and play for years, and the ‘Avatar’ game will deliver new and unexpected thrills to gamers for the foreseeable future,” Kabam COO Kent Wakeford said. “James Cameron and the Avatar franchise are synonymous with groundbreaking technology and pushing the envelope,” gushed COO Kent Wakeford in a statement. “We plan to live up to those standards by creating the best AAA massively multiplayer mobile game possible for the franchise.”
Avatar producer Jon Landau chimed in, “The world of Pandora is massive, far beyond what we are able to include in our feature films, and we think fans will be excited by the level of additional depth and detail that they will be able to experience in this game.” What he doesn’t mention is that the world of Pandora is especially difficult to explore further when James Cameron can’t meet any of his deadlines. I am sure that those who’ve been waiting eagerly for Avatar 2 will indeed be excited to discover they’ll be able to see more of Pandora in a different way.
Joking aside, Avatar seems like a good film to get the video game treatment. The characters and storyline of the first film were pretty standard stuff, but the real appeal of Avatar lay in the world of Pandora. Cameron and his team poured attention into every tiny detail of that universe, and it shows — and now you’ll have the chance to explore that incredible environment even more deeply. A game seems like a great way to keep the storyline going for a sequel that never seems to get any closer (and it’s not even the first such game we’ve heard about today).
Would you play an Avatar video game?
